Babysitters: what's the hourly rate

[mammya]

I'm considering asking my neighbour's teenage daughter to babysit for me occasionally in the evening, but haven't the faintest ideas how much I should pay her. I live in London.
Any advice much appreciated.

teenage? £5 max I'd say!

Thanks pph, £5 is my upper limit anyway, still hoping someone will say it's less than that

one of the staff at DDs nursery (fully qalified, middleaged nursery nurse) charges £6 an hour for evening babysitting. We are in SE London.

so £5 for an unqualified (I'm assuming) teenager sounds fairly generous to me

hth

We pay our childminder's daughter or son&girlfriend £5 per hour up to a max of £30. The DD is Sixth form and the DS and his gf are 20.

i am a childminder and charge £5 an hour and a flat rate of £20 if finish before midnight. Am in leicester.

In the US I pay around $7-8 an hour (4-5 pounds), but I usually try to round it up to a whole number. (So if it's 3 hours, I will probably just give her $25.)

Right - call me an old scrooge, but I pay £5 per hour for one of the nursery staff...when I've had chance to use one of our neighbours kids, I've paid a flat £15 for the evening and they've seemed happy enough.

When I was a girl (wistful emoticon) I used to babysit 2 kids for our Pools man (as in football pools, not swimming pools) for £3.50 for the whole evening.

We're in the Midlands btw.

I pay our teenage neighbour about £3-5 an hour (no fixed rate, depends how long we are away) and we have four children to look after, but we are not in London.

Pay 4.50 per hour through Sitters, which is an agency.

I pay our nanny an additional £4/hour for anything outside of her usual working hours. When we had a childminder, we paid her £6/hour.

The nanny lives with us, and we usually stick around long enough to put DD into bed (because that's a job I like doing myself). So really we are giving her £4/hour to just carry on with sitting at home.

Whereas the childminder had to come over to our house to babysit.