How much to pay babysitter for long weekend?

How much to pay babysitter for long weekend?

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soad

32,825 posts

175 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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Expect your fridge (and drinks cabinet/wine cellar!) to be raided. hehe

Impasse

15,099 posts

240 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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How old are the kids?

BJG1

5,966 posts

211 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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Oakey said:
£100 per 24hours?

So a whopping £4.16per hour?

That's real generous of you
Well they'll be asleep for 8 of them?

soad

32,825 posts

175 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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Impasse said:
How old are the kids?
Old enough to...spend the entire time running up and down the stairs, go out on the freezing cold and wet trampoline, track mud through the house and be true little horrors, to be blunt.

Screaming, smashing plates and glasses in the kitchen and trying to cut one another's hair with these massive scissors.

They're also likely to raid the fridge and end up all hyped up and running rampant...

A laptop full of viruses from downloading dubious games. hehe

Easy as pie, eh! laugh

KFC

3,687 posts

129 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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£100 a day seems fair I think. Like mentioned above its perhaps not realistic for someone to expect full wages whilst sleeping, even if they are in someone else's bed. When my sis worked overnight like that she'd get a smallish flat rate for the sleepover and then extra if she had to actually get out of work and deal with any of the kids (working in a hospital type place)


red_slr

17,122 posts

188 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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£500,, are you frickin' crazy?!!?

4 days, 3 nights. Couple of hundred quid max! I presume we are talking a "young adult" here who is in education etc.

Allow for £20 / day food.

Jeez.. some of you guys do crack me up.

JimmyConwayNW

3,056 posts

124 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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red_slr said:
£500,, are you frickin' crazy?!!?

4 days, 3 nights. Couple of hundred quid max! I presume we are talking a "young adult" here who is in education etc.

Allow for £20 / day food.

Jeez.. some of you guys do crack me up.
Exactly haha


Impasse

15,099 posts

240 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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soad said:
Easy as pie, eh! laugh
hehe

My question was really wondering what the workload for the babysitter would be. Constantly changing nappies and making up bottles or simply making sure they weren't on their X-Box past midnight? Do the kids need entertaining for the entire weekend with trips to the park, baking and other fun stuff, or are they happy to go round to a mate's house until bed time?

But obviously interspersed with your cocktail of kidsworld things! biggrin

Hysteria1983

1,616 posts

157 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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Hmm, i'm not on mumsnet either, but as a mum, I wouldn't leave mu two for a weekend with anyone other than family, but hey, who am I to judge. If the children are happy, and its something the baby sitter does regularly then that's ok.

I would however seriously think about what you were willing tp pay her. You need to double that, and then you have the childcare paid for. Then you need to factor in the house sitting cost, and the pet sitting.

Also feeding her for the weekend, and also just some mad money for her to spend with the children so she can take them out for a treat and not have to pay herself.

Is the children are happy, everyone is happy.

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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condor said:
I think some of your comments are a bit harsh. I know times have changed but when I was a child I often stayed at school friends houses for weekends and half terms. Au pairs used to help in the summer holidays and mostly looked after us for board and pocket money.
+1

Me and my brother were day pupils at school but did the odd week and weekend as Boarders when our parents needed to be away for business etc

I also got looked after for long weekends once or twice a year by Au Pair types if it was school holidays.

Naturally, myself and my brother have been completely scarred for life by these horrific experiences and wished we had spent EVERY SINGLE DAY of our childhoods being looked after by no one other than our parents... wink

foliedouce

Original Poster:

3,067 posts

230 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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Thanks for the all the input guys, I think I am going to offer £100 per 24 hours plus some extra cash for taking kids out.

I appreciate everyone has different approaches to parenting, I believe it's important for adults to have some time together away from the kids for the benefit of their relationship, and I also believe it's good for kids to spend time away from their parents to build their independence.

I respect those that don't feel that way, a little less venom from some of you maybe nice, although I probably did set myself up for it by putting a mumsnet discussion in The Lounge smile

Kids are 4 and 5 1/2, the eldest is very self sufficient, 4 year old needs a bit more entertaining. They love the babysitter in question who we know very well and so do they, she is churchy and horsey, so they are going to the stables and to church next weekend, 2 experiences that they would not get with us as we're neither.

The kids are very excited about it.

Thanks again all.

Pferdestarke

7,179 posts

186 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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Fair play to you for going.

I hadn't realised it was quite as lucrative with some of the figures quoted on here.

Matttracker

630 posts

146 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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I've never considered it possible to leave them for that long! I like the sound if it though. Our babysitter charges about £5 an hour , she's a student so would be more than happy with £200/250 plus say £100 entertaining' budget. If that was me back then as a student, I'd entertain them for free and buy beer and happiness with the free £100

hornetrider

63,161 posts

204 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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Pferdestarke said:
Fair play to you for going.

I hadn't realised it was quite as lucrative with some of the figures quoted on here.
Yeah but have you got great tits?

condor

8,837 posts

247 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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I think £100/24 hours is too generous, let alone extras for days out...but then you add in the horsey stuff (and that costs a lot).
Ask the babysitter what she thinks is a good rate for the job ( which will be less than you'd give her) and then add a handsome tip to it and she'll be far happier smile

Oakey

27,521 posts

215 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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BJG1 said:
Well they'll be asleep for 8 of them?
And they might not!

037

1,315 posts

146 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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Some of the comments on here question my interest in this forum!
If you can find some body you trust to look after your kids you are luckier than some!
Pay them what they ask. Then tip generously!
You can then plan more weekends away, and everyone is happy.
A happy wife is a happy life!

PapaJohns

1,064 posts

152 months

Saturday 25th April 2015
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Oakey said:
£100 per 24hours?

So a whopping £4.16per hour?

That's real generous of you
Our daily child minder charges £3.50phr or £4phr if she provides meals(8am-6pm) . But if I was even contemplating leaving my daughter for that long and round the clock care etc I'd be turning to a family member , that's what grandparents are for

KFC

3,687 posts

129 months

Sunday 26th April 2015
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condor said:
I think £100/24 hours is too generous, let alone extras for days out...but then you add in the horsey stuff (and that costs a lot).
Ask the babysitter what she thinks is a good rate for the job ( which will be less than you'd give her) and then add a handsome tip to it and she'll be far happier smile
I was going on the assumption that the £100 would be the 'wage' aspect of it. Certainly anything above that (horses, food, taxis, etc etc etc) would all be 'business expense' and would be over and above the pay.

Alucidnation

16,810 posts

169 months

Sunday 26th April 2015
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Don't forget the beers for the boyfriend.

wink