Babysitters rates

PrideandLuna

Hi just wondering what people are paying for babysitting in the evenings? Also overnights at the weekend? I’ve a toddler and a 6month old.

Gant21

€50 a hour for overnight, €40 daytime.

PrideandLuna

€50 per hour?!?

Big Bag of Chips

I give a teenager €20-€25 for a few hours at night. For (very occasional) overnights I'd use family! No charge. And I repay the favour anytime they need it.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118676087#Comment_118676087

Do you need a babysitter? I'll do it for €45

€25 per day for 2-2.5hrs after school one child.

cant26

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058234342/babysitters-rates

We'd pay €10 per hour for a babysitter. Have only ever needed one overnight and we paid €150 from 7pm until 12pm the next day.

cant26

Lisamayy

I earn € 20 per hour 45hrs a week for 1 toddler and have done similar in 2 other jobs over the years.

So I charge €15 per hour at night. I would hope parents are at least paying minimum wage of €10.50

Cork Lass

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118771529#Comment_118771529

Are you saying you are being paid €900 a week for minding one child? Forgive me, but I find that hard to believe.

Big Bag of Chips

Babysitting isn't the same as child minding and minimum wage doesn't come into it as you don't have an employment contract.

I have had local teenagers babysit and the maximum I have paid for a night (could be 5 hours) is €30. I now have teenagers who babysit and would tell the parents the same thing. €20-€25 a night is enough. And the teenager is usually delighted with the extra pocket money. An adult might charge more. But a sensible local teenager can be a Godsend!

My daughter used to babysit when she was a teenager, and she used to get €5 per hour before midnight, and €10 per hour after midnight. (or part thereof). Plus taxi fare home (if not dropped off, or walked home).

She wouldn't have been comfortable doing overnights, though was once offered €150 for an overnight - 8pm to 10am.

enricoh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118771754#Comment_118771754

Must be the abramovitch's nipper she's minding!

The Mighty Quinn

If we do something, it's usually a case of get children to bed by 7ish, pick up babysitter at 730, back to our own place and out before 8, and home latest 1030, for 30eur. She makes her own way home.

Markus Antonius

How depressing to hear that you can have a first class honours degree in mechanical engineering with 10+ years experience in 2 multinational corporations and still get paid less per hour than a 16 year old girl...

I'm notifying revenue to come down like a ton of bricks on this faction of 16 year olds. Purely out of spite