I am a stay at home mom, and there is a lady who wants me to watch her two kids under the age of five on......

Question

....the weekend, I have no problem with this, except I do not know how much to charge. She will only pay me what I ask.... I do not want to be greedy, but I do not want this to be like ok what am I doing this for? I would like to know a reasonable amount to charge her for Sat-Sun 4am-2pm for two children under the age of five. PLEASE HELP!!!!!! The more the answers the better PLEASE..... also need to know by tonight 8pm az time

Answer 1

Wow! 4 am. I can't begin to tell you how much most people would charge for those hours. Regular hours for one child is about 200-250 week for 8-10 hours. For two it would be 350-400. Since you are only doing two days but early morning and on weekends and for 10 hours each day for under 5 year olds, I would say that a very fair amount would be 150.00 week for both. That is about minimum wage! Good luck.

Answer 2

I would say around $12 an hour. ~

Answer 3

How old are your kids? How many do you have? Would taking two more who will need a lot of attention and care have any impact on your kids?

In my area, as far as I know, most day care centers charge $200-$250 per child for five weekdays. For the two kids, you can probably do between $300-$350 for the time frame you've described. ($10/hr for 34hrs = $340) Since they're staying overnight with you, they'll have to be fed, clothed, played with, bathed, etc. Plus they're quite young so they'll need a lot of intensive care and watching....