Going hourly rate for "borrowing" an au pair?

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Mate has a live in au pair and wants to "loan" her out to give her a bigger opportunity to meet people and top up pocket money (her DC are weekly boarders).
Am interested but rather broke.
We are 4 mins drive (rural) from the employer
We wouldn't be responsible for her car or anything - would jsut be topping up her spending money and I would want her to do some light duties in the house.
Any advice anyone?
TIA

Suggest minimum wage, or what you'd pay a babysitter.

Thanks fedup

Do others agree?

It's a separate employment for the au pair so it needs to be minimum wage at least. Be careful, as you're also opening yourself up to being an employer of someone with another and therefore would have to register as an employer to operate PAYE etc in order to deduct the APs tax.

My last au pair was always asking for this as she did school runs for me and then was free once I was in and all weekend. She used to charge £10 for baby sitting and I think 20 for cleaning - I told her to undercut the going rate as she could do so due to not having to pay rent and board. She thought that was a good plan and met loads more people, had extra spends, was busy in her free time and just enjoyed doing different things. Always worth asking what the person is expecting as it saves there being a mismatch there which leads to bad feeling.

MEP that's really interesting - are you in London? £10 for babysitting q a lot round here

Fraktion thanks for the heads up re tax etc - v helpful.

Last ditch bump.

£20 for cleaning is a lot too - I pay my cleaner £10 p h. I would expect to pay minimum wage or whatever babysitters or cleaners near you charge per hour.