Have you had a pay rise, increased your fees?

[nannynick]

The Guardian have an article about childcare costs soaring... up 19%. Really?

Have you increased your childminding fees, if so is it that sort of percentage?

Nannies, have you had a payrise which has cost your employer an extra 19% on what their previous total cost was?

Nursery owners - are fees increasing?

Parents - has your childcare provider increased their fees, have you increased your nannies salary?

1000 people surveyed... is that really going to give an accurate figure of what is happening throughout the entire UK? I doubt it... whilst I suspect some fees have gone up a little, I expect many have not. Would you agree?

erm

no not for about 18m

& then it was about 5% for a FT place

I got a 4% pay rise last year as that's what my boss got from his company. Not sure if I'll get one this year as hours/salary have changed. I'm not one of those who believe that nannies should have a pay rise each year as people in other professions don't always get yearly rises or bonuses.

When DS1 was at a CC nursery baby room in 2011, I think the fees were about £4.60 an hour (definitely under £5). Now the same nurseries are £6 an hour for a baby space. And meals used to be included, and now they're extra (and over £2 a meal!).

Our au pair has had to return home for 8 weeks as her mum is having an op. I've managed to find someone to cover the period but we're paying her £12net/hour eek!

She's luckily only doing 12 hours a week. The last qualified nanny we had, we paid £9/hour to (we also had a mother's help which we paid £8/hour).

That's your 19% increase.

So is it perhaps nurseries that have increased fees quite a lot, rather than all childcare providers? Are there perhaps costs which nurseries have that have increased a lot recently?

Food, fuel (heating costs are crippling me) & I desperately want to put wages up - but I can't afford to

I got a 3% pay rise last year.

the last time I got a pay rise before that was in 2011 and that was 5%

I don't expect a rise every year, especially since my employers work in a sector where pay has been frozen for the last few years and I'm at the higher end of the pay scale for a nanny anyway, I'm just pleased to have a job in the current climate.

Been a cm for four years. Not raised my fees in all that time

Because of the crippling food and heating costs I have ( before tax) earned a paltry £10,000 for a 48 hour week .......

4% in Jan

I am a childminder and as much as I need to put my fees up due to the rising costs of everything , I have not raised my fees for 3 years.

It was raised from £3.50 per hour to £3.65 and it was brought in as new families started. There are quite a few childminders around here who charge £4 per hour.

I provide all food/drinks , also pay for any trips during the school holidays.

I do feel at the moment if I was to raise my fees , I would have less work and its so quiet around here as it is, so to scared to take the risk :(

So where they get those figures from every year amazes me!!!

Where do they get the figures... they don't seem to ask us. Looks to me as though a 5% rise may be more realistic, though maybe nurseries have increased more and as always there will be some exceptions to the rule, like temp nannies.

I'm a cm and have increased the amount I charge. I've scrapped the discount I gave for full days. It meant an increase of two pounds a day, but was only put into place for new starters, not existing children, whose fees stayed the same. By July, everyone will be the same again. (I couldn't put everyone's up as it wasn't contract renewal time and I never thought to do it at contract renewal time).

I'm a CM charging £3.50 per hour for the one EY child I care for. I have one child for wraparound care so for 4 out of 10 hours per day I get £7.00 per hour. These amounts are before I've paid for the children's food, toys, outings, resources, Ofsted and ICO fees, public liability insurance and training courses. I can't fill my other 2 EY vacancies as there is so little work available. If I put up my fees there's even less chance of work coming my way. I've not raised my fees for over a year and it was only 10p per hour last time. So I'm looking for a job as a nursery nurse in a private day nursery, then I'm quitting as a CM. The one EY child I care for now will be going to a private nursery and his parents will see an increase in their childcare bill of way more than 19%.

I haven't had a pay increase since I started my position 2 1/2 years ago.
However as the children have got older the activities we do have become more expensive, even down to craft supplies. Plus they have kept me on during maternity leave, which they didn't have to.
I have to be honest, I'm just grateful I have a job-so many nannies seem to be struggling.

I put my fees up from £5 per hour to £5.20 in October, but I'm lucky as there's masses of demand. To be honest, I don't think cost is most parents' primary issue.