How much to pay babysitter?

[chaosisawayoflife]

One of the girls from DD's nursery is babysitting for me tomorrow as I have to go to work despite it being a bank holiday. I work 12 hour shifts so she'll be looking after DD from 7.45am to about 8.15pm. I asked her how much she wanted to charge and she said she'd let me decide how much I want to pay her! Argh! What would you charge for a 12.5 hour day? It's in my home and dd is nearly 2.

If she works at the nursery presumably she is salaried for tomorrow anyway. To suggest a days work of that nature is worth £100 is ridiculous, the bank holiday aspect is a red herring.

Tbh you both should have discussed this earlier

wages all depend on the person

I wouldn't work for less than £10ph on a normal day so looking at £120+ for me for. 12ht day ( but I'm old and very experienced) saying that I actually charge time and a half if I ever work bh so £180 for a 12hr day

parents have been happy with that as I tell them my rates and they still use me

I am sure some of you on here are now fainting with shock lol

whatever you pay it should def be over nmw so at LEAST £72

"To suggest a days work of that nature is worth £100 is ridiculous"

No, actually I don't think it's ridiculous at all. It's £8 an hour

Where I live, in the NW, a nursery that pays £8 an hour doesn't exist.
Minimum wage or just over is what you can expect to earn.

I'd say 50 or 60 quid is about right TBH. Trust me, she'll be well happy with that.

Purepurple - this isn't in a nursery though. This is sole charge care in the child's home.

My suggestion is to pay what you can afford and what you will be happy to pay.

Thanks all. Gosh, I didn't expect so many responses. I was thinking in the area of £80 so I'm glad to see that's not either ridiculously high or low according to general consensus. She is young, experienced but not qualified. I'm hoping the nursery are also paying her for tomorrow since I'm paying them even though they're closed! Therefore I'm effectively paying double time anyway! Unfortunately I probably would be better off not going to work but that's not an option, the nature of my job means I can't. And DH is away which is why I'm having to get childcare, normally he'd do it. I think I'll stick with £80 as I'd sort of planned. It will probably be higher than she expected but I don't want to take the piss. She's a lovely girl, DD's favourite, and it would be very handy for us if she's willing to do babysitting for us again so I don't want to undervalue her and put her off helping out again.

That sounds very sensible chaos.

Sounds good to me

hope work goes well for you tomorrow

my friend works in a nursery and babysit occasioanaly she said she would be happy with 5 pounds an hour, bank holiday or not!

What would you do if something actually happened - pay her the wage to look after your child - it should reflect the value of this statement!

HOw do you mean JETS? A responsible adult would surely look after a child no matter how much you paid them. I certainly wouldn't look after a child any less responsibly for £2.50 an hour than for £10 an hour.

I agree, JETS, what are you getting at? I asked advice on what a fair rate was, I didn't ask for how little I could get away with paying her, and in fact I have paid her more than the vast majority of people on here advised. I'm not sure your post makes sense.