Babysitting - what to pay

[Beabea]

Sorry if this has been asked loads of times. I have no idea what to pay my neighbours granddaughter who is 17. It would be to look after 2 children both already in bed. Then if all goes well help out one evening with bedtime routine when DH goes to evening class.

Any ideas?

Hi - as a guide we pay our babysitter (now 21!) £20 per sitting. We could be out 3 hrs or 5 hrs - if v late then £25 so generally she does ok and both our dd's are also in bed. I like to avoid the 'per hour' route & this way it is fixed and we all know where we are. Hope this helps.

dd1 is 14 and just started babysitting for a friends little boy.
She gets paid £3.50 an hour , and a transport to and from.
However the babysitter we usually use charges £5.50 and hour and double after midnight-thats the going rate here.
Cost me £50 and a bottle of wine to go out to a ball Xmas and realised why i dont go out very often-also i ensure my 3 are all tucked up in bed the little one asleep and older 2 watching a video, so all she has to do is stay awake FFS !

we pay £5 an hour
girls are in bed )usually) but they time she arrives, she has own car so drives over, if she doesn't, we pick her up and drop her back
(she's 18)