Child Care and Day Care Cost - Buyer Experiences and Price Information

I was looking for affordable childcare in the raleigh/durham area and I came across felecha and busy bodies... it was great. Shes a great teacher and the price was right. She sends home these cut-a-grams that tell us exactly what my child has learn for the day. I would call her if I were U. 919-79-2345

I'm a school bus driver. Monday- Thursday my mother watches my 2 girls for for 2 hours in the morning. I come home on my split give them lunch and put them down for a nap. I'm gone for about 21/2 houses. So my girls sleep most of that time. On Fridays my mom has them for 8 hours. That makes 28 hours a week for 2 toddlers. With the fact there is no transporting to school and 4 days a week the last 2 house she has them they are sleeping and I come home and put them down for a nap. PLEASE CAN ANYONE HELP??

The five month old lives with me and my family. Seeing his family for 20 hours a week and the 2yr old is with me 7days a week 12hours day.

I'm currently working in a day care with 8 childern most days some day there's 12 I have to provide a lesson an sever lunch n snack I have 2 that are special need all kids are under the age of 5 but one who's 8 n I'm only getting paid 400 a month wondering how much I shud be making

I work independent as a Montessori teacher. I go to my client's home, teach and simultaneously provide care for 3 children. I have full days on MWF and teach till 1030 AM on TTH. I'm very happy where I am but feel it should be a little more. I provide 2 meals for the older two and laundry service for all three children. Am I wrong?

I live in Mount Pocono PA, and Im taking care of twin girls 5yrs and a 11yrs a total of 3 girls for 2 hours in the morning, get them dress, brush teeth , do hair and feed them breakfast and drop and pick them from the bus, i keep them for another 4 to 5 hours after school, do homework, feed dinner, bath them and get them ready for bed, and all for 200 a week. i received a fsafeds form she wants me to sign and put my social for tax and reimbustment. what should i do , i can't do all of this for this price. her employment reimburse back 5,000 back to her free of tax.

$15 to $17 it's the on going rate per hour for in house Nanny care. Newborn and up, No cleaning our house work.
Hope this helps, Northern NJ rate.

These children's parents both work making at least 500 week each and I keep their 3yr.old daughter & 6 month boy along with my own one year old and 4 year old from 5:30am-around 6pm/6days week and they only want to pay 120$/WK..I asked for a little more and they said its too much. Wat should I do and charge? Plus its only temporary for now becuz the mother's job is seasonal. Plz help me!!!

These children's parents both work making at least 500 week each and I keep their 3yr.old daughter & 6 month boy along with my own one year old and 4 year old from 5:30am-around 6pm/6days week and they only want to pay 120$/WK..I asked for a little more and they said its too much. Wat should I do and charge? Plus its only temporary for now becuz the mother's job is seasonal. Plz help me!!!

In looking to get my daughter in pre-k but I don't make much so I need good program yet something that won't make it seem as if I'm working just to pay day care. I need mon-friday 7am to about 515 pm.

Many frustrating comments here. If you don't feel you get paid enough for what you offer, then you need to require more. Period. Stop being taken advantage of. You are important and your time and what you offer is very valuable, whether it's your grandkids or other clients. Central NJ is one of the most expensive areas in the country, but prices are 40% higher in areas of northeast Jersey. (I do have a Bachelor's degree in Child Development and 20+ years' experience, so this accounts for a small part of the cost.) This is your job or business, not a charity you're running. You have bills to pay and your time is worth a lot, too. Don't work with families that give you trouble or don't follow your guidelines. It's actually quite simple - people agree to your terms or find childcare elsewhere. Good luck. Your role in children's lives is SO important.

At my center we provide everything from baby bottles, diapers, all food, and even at home pick up and drop off. I charge $35 a week for school age kids, $65 for children ages 1-4, and $80 for infants. We are the lowest childcare around and I still have parents that want something cheaper, or don't want to pay. Sadly to say but its usually the parents of the children that have behavior problems. So now my teachers have to deal with children that want to kick, bite, hit, and throw temper tantrums and parents want to pay less than $65 a week....really?! Parents don't understand everything that Childcare providers have to deal with. I feel that I charge way too little.

I Am working 10-11 hours a day (7am-5/6pm), 5 days a week and making $40 dollars a day, $200 a week, it measures out to $4 a hour, how do I address this with Parents to either get more money or say goodbye.

My daughter just started a job about 2 months ago and I was trying to help her get on her feet and I started watching my grandkids for her . She originally wasn't planning on giving me anything so I said you can give me something and she wanted to know what so I said $40 she said that was too much but reluctantly gave it to me for these first 7 weeks . Now the older child has started back to school so she has dropped the payment to $20 dollars! I am soooo sorry but watching a 11 month old for $20 a week is not happening she will have to find someone else!!!! Am I wrong for this?

This cost is for only 3 days a week- Full time is roughly $1000 a month. This is twice as much as any other day care in the area, but when we went to the other ones and went to this one, there is no comparison. SCDS regularly has 3 QUALIFIED teachers for 9-10 kids in a classroom. They also have a curriculum and wonderfully laid out classroom. I love this place!

I am looking to hire a live in nanny part time on the weekends twice a month. I wanted to pay $300 to $350 per weekend if i found one. I found someone and she told me that $350 per weekend was too low. I thought it was fair because there would be a parent here and would assume most of the responsiblities until called into work on those weekends. Someone please let me know a good rate. I believe she is looking for $500 plus. I can not afford $1000.00 plus per month when there are no other reaponsiblities for this position except feed baby, change diapers, and be at the house when parent is called into work for two hours at a time if at all. I only need her 6 days out of the month and feel she could find work on the other 24/25 days. Please let me kmow if i am wrong but $700.00 per month seems fair to me.

I am about to raise my rates to $65 per week for anyone here 12 hrs-20 hrs per week. I also am going to be charging $4 per hr for anyone here less than 12 hours per week. My full time rate (over 20 hrs week) is going to be $3 per hr. Does this sound fair?