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With daycares closed, there are a lot of people working from home and trying to watch their kids at the same time. You'd need to sort out with them (and any ho
by jefftk 6y ago
With daycares closed, there are a lot of people working from home and trying to watch their kids at the same time. You'd need to sort out with them (and any housemates) about what level of contact to have outside your (now expanded) bubble, but people need childcare badly.
- IgorPartola 6y agoOutschool does something similar and seems like it can make you some money.
- jurassic 6y agoMy wife, who is out of work, is providing emergency childcare to some friends of ours for $20/hr. People are really desperate for this and I'm sure she could make more if she wasn't just doing it as a favor for our friends.
- posix_me_less 6y agoIf you do something for a friend ... and take money, is it really fair to call it a favour?
- cpach 6y agoIf it’s below market rate; sure, why not?
- posix_me_less 6y agoIs $20/hour below the market rate in U.S.?
- madcaptenor 6y agoIt feels above-market to me, but it probably depends on the number of kids and where you are. We're paying $17/hour for daytime child care for one two-year-old in the north Atlanta suburbs. We've historically paid evening "date night" babysitters $60 for 4-5 hours, so $12-15 an hour, but that's an easier job because the kid's asleep a big portion of the time.
- cpach 6y agoI don’t know, but the US is a huge country with some very poor parts and some very rich parts. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was below market rate in Silicon Valley.
- madcaptenor 6y agoHere's a survey from urbansitter.com: https://blog.urbansitter.com/2019-babysitting-rates/ https://blog.urbansitter.com/2019-babysitting-rates/ $20 seems to be above-market everywhere for one kid, and everywhere except SF and NY for two kids. But it wouldn't surprise me if there's finer-grained variation - sitters probably cost more in the richer parts of a metro area than in the poorer parts of the same metro area.
- jurassic 6y agoMost data on the market rate predates the pandemic. Right now there is basically no childcare available.
- jurassic 6y agoShe was going to do it for free but they insisted on paying her.
- TheFiend7 6y agoIf it isn't their profession/field and they don't need the money either way. Yeah I would still consider it a favor. I pay the people who house sit and watch my pets, I still consider it a favor in addition to paying them.
- namelosw 6y agoI’m not sure how it’s compared with market rate but friends are usually more trustable or at least making people feel that way.
- LanceH 6y agoDaycare may require state certification (just beware). With so many kids homeschooled, tutoring the last couple of months was probably a gold mine. Many parents run into a hard wall with respect to math and science and can no longer help their kids.
- jefftk 6y agoWatching the kids of a single family is being a nanny, not a daycare, and at least in the US doesn't require a license or certification.
- madcaptenor 6y agoI would guess this varies by state. (IANAL.)
- jefftk 6y agoWhat state do you think does? High-regulation states like MA and CA don't, and it would very much surprise me if others did. (I'm also not a lawyer.)
- madcaptenor 6y agoSorry, I was unclear. I was guessing that low-regulation states might allow watching the kids of more than one family.
- LanceH 6y agoWatching their kids at their house is being a nanny. You only mentioned people need childcare. Having kids dropped off at your house requires at least registration in Texas, and if it's 4-6, requires certification.
- ohyeshedid 6y agoThat also comes with a huge amount of liability.
- madcaptenor 6y agoSeconding this. When our day care closed we originally sent our 2-year-old to her grandparents; when they couldn't take it any more (she can be a handful!) we brought her back. Since her teachers from day care were also out of work we called the one she gets along with best, and that's working splendidly. Unfortunately this costs more than day care, but we're spending less normally just because there aren't as many opportunities to spend money, so it's okay. Licensing might be an issue, as some people have mentioned. More importantly, though, I wouldn't trust my kid to someone who doesn't have experience with kids. So this may or may not be an option for your friend.
- D13Fd 6y agoChildcare is a great answer. We pay our baby sitter $120/day, and we treat her like royalty because she’s good it at and she actually has a great hourly rate for the area ($15/hr). It’s working out really well for everyone involved. We may just keep her on even when daycare opens back up.
- wingerlang 6y agoWow that’s a lot of money, where I’m from I see the cost for full time nanny at like $450 per _month_ (plus meals).