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I pay "only" 10% more than the exchange rate adjusted amount you're paying. Top 5 US city. Don't take too much stock in the ridiculous numbers you hear. I've
by notch656a 4y ago
I pay "only" 10% more than the exchange rate adjusted amount you're paying. Top 5 US city. Don't take too much stock in the ridiculous numbers you hear. I've lived in podunc land, the suburbs, and major city and I always paid within 10% of what you're paying.
£1200 in my top 5 city would get you a newly built daycare, with all the modern gizmos, a kitchen built "especially for young children", a teacher with 10+ yr experience, and peer children who are the son/daughters of doctors and lawyers. ~£800 gets you an average daycare that is fully up to license / code and generally does a decent job. ~£600 will get you a caring but gray market (usually bilingual or limited english) stay at home mom with a home daycare business.
I would wager the vast vast majority are paying close to ~£800, either through the black/gray market with unlicensed caregivers or in licensed facilities in the vast majority of lower cost of living portions of America.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoWhat is this top 5 US city? Half decent infant daycare in SF/SEA/NYC/LA/DC suburbs is going to be minimum $1,700 per month, in the cheapest of those metro areas. In tier 2 cities, I would question the quality for anything less than $1,300 per month. And in no major US city would I enroll my child in a $1,000 per month or less daycare. You can even back into the max teacher pay based on monthly daycare costs since you know how much staff is required, and knowing the living wage in some of these cities.
- notch656a 4y ago[deleted for privacy]
- lotsofpulp 4y agoKindercare (probably the lowest quality daycare I would find acceptable) is $2,000+ for infants in Seattle suburbs and $1,500+ in Portland suburbs. I would have expected Phoenix to be more expensive, but it is probably cheaper due to more lax staffing ratios.