Money advice please

[thatsnotmymonkey]

My lovely CM has a family funeral to go to next week, and her assistant has offered to babysit for me at my house, but she has no idea what to charge. I have no idea what to offer her.

She is NVQ level 2 maybe 3, 19 years old. My CM charges me £3.50 a hour for my kid in a group setting. I have no clue what to pay and what is fair.

We live in a rural setting, in Somerset, so no crazy London prices or salaries here! The local day care charges £35 for a full day.

My gut is to pay the same as my CM- £3.50/hour. My DH say we should just give her a lump sum of £40. It is from 8-5pm.

Please advise me, I do not want to offend anyone, or appear to be a cheap skate. Am off out now, but will be back later to check replies.

anyone??

I would err on the side of caution and offer at least min wage for her age group.

Offer her minimum wage - just under £5 an hour for her age I think, so more like £45 for the day.

Ok, minimum wage sounds OK, but rather more than what we pay the CM. Is that OK?

CMs are self employed, set their own rates, take children from multiple families - as a CMs assistant this girl gets min wage as she is an employee so although she's offered to babysit I would be disinclined to offer her less than she usually makes for the day.

Plus you're asking her to take on more responsibility for day as she will be in sole charge of your DD.

That makes sense, thank you fraked I didn't want to piss my CM off.

Is the assistant self-employed or employed by the childminder, maybe you should just ask the childminder to invoice you as usual and she sort her wages out??

It doesn't sound like the assistant is working for the CM that day though, but directly for thatsnotmymonkey, so not really up to the CM to sort the wages.

No she isn't, I don't think my CM wants to be involved TBH

Also, I expect the CM is earning more than the minimum wage per hour as she has more than one child.

agree min wage so £4.83 so i would round up to £5 so pay £45

Yeah, that is what I have told her, £5/hour. she seemed fine with that.

It was awkward though! She hates talking about money.