How much to pay Au pair for extra babysitting

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If we get our AP to do some extra babysitting at the weekend, how much should we pay per hour (this is for the daytime)?

Minimum wage is around £6 I think, so at least that.

Minimum wage doesn't apply to APs.

In our house if AP works at weekend she gets an extra days pay at school holiday rates, irrespective of how long she actually works.

Oh I would like to know the answer to this question as well.

I agree minimum wage does not apply. Perhaps should be the same as your agreed bsitting rate (if you have one)?

Surely minimum wage doesn't apply because room and board count towards it - if the au pair has already done her contracted hours then any extra hours can't have the room and board applied too?

Tricky.

I would be loath to pay less than minimum wage given that it's daytime and it's the weekend so effectively it is overtime. If I were doing it as a nanny for my regular family it would be at my overtime rate.

I think TOIL is a fiar way to look at it.

I agree with MUA. Her bed,board and pocket money/wages are payment for a set number of hours as agreed per week. So any extra hours she is asked to work should be paid extra and at a fair rate. I would offer the local going rate for weekend babysitting.

I agree that the room and board ocmponent applies to her set hours and not any additional ones. However, I would pay someone who doesn't live in my house a bit more for the inconvenience of haveing to come over to mine to b-sit.

However...

I also think you don't want to get into a situation where bsitting for other people is more attractive than bsitting for you.

So, I guess I'd find out what other people are paying their au pairs.

I know some live-in qualified nannies who get £6 or £7 per hour (live-outs get a bit more). So I guess an au pair would get £5 or £6? I'm guessing thought. So feel free to jump in if you think I'm off the mark in my reasoning.

We pay £5 per hour. I know people who pay £3 but think it is far too low for weekend babysitting where they are giving up their personal time - especially when you WANT your AP to have a personal life, which we do. £5 is actually in line with min wage for someone under 21.

£5 or 6 sounds right. I feel it should be a tiny bit less than I'd pay an outsider as she will already be here anyway i.e. no travel time, so maybe £5.