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$700 per month. Those are rookie numbers. Come to the UK where childcare is £2k per month. The UK system gives mediocre benefits and also penalises you if one
by ilikerashers 3y ago
$700 per month. Those are rookie numbers. Come to the UK where childcare is £2k per month.
The UK system gives mediocre benefits and also penalises you if one of you makes >100k a year.
- Redsquare 3y ago£2k? - where on earth is that - it is around £1.2k in Manchester
- jamesfmilne 3y agoIf you have two children under 5 you could easily be £2k in childcare for both of them. And £2k probably doesn't even cover 5 days a week for two kids. I daren't think about what it'd cost if you had 3 kids under 5 years old!
- ilikerashers 3y agoLondon zone 4. Pretty typical and can go higher.
- shawabawa3 3y agoThe nursery my daughter goes to just increased their prices from £1.8k/month to £2.1k/month for children under 2. It's slightly less for children over 2 and even less once they hit 3 and get 15 hours free This is London zone 2
- shapefrog 3y agoThese numbers are also ignoring the gap in (median/average/decent) pay between the US and UK (2021 averages in USD: $58,260 for the US and $38,291 for the UK). Oddly it has conditioned many friends who were stauch opponents of private schools (waste of money and only generates entitled poorly educated people) to feel more comfortable with paying the cheaper private school fees for primary school (or they took one look at the public alternative and realised the reality)
- ilikerashers 3y agoYeah, I always thought that private school was the big financial pain but it is definitely nursery costs which are the most insane. My local nursery is also owned by Private Equity and was just rated inadequate by Ofsted due to high staff turnover (clearly paying peanuts).
- shapefrog 3y agoConsidering it now - my PE funded nursery school is going to be a feeder nursery that gets lots of students into the fancy primary school that feeds to the best secondary schools ...
- ilikerashers 3y agoOurs took a major nose dive after PE got involved (Grandir), and literally became a dangerous place for kids. Got shut down for a week, unexplained injuries etc. All while forcing parents to pay super high rates due to lack of options.
- qudat 3y ago$2300/mo/child here in the Midwest
- RSHEPP 3y agoChicago? I am in Dallas and it's $1000/mo/child. Unless your child is going to some prestigious daycare, that sound unreasonable.
- qudat 3y agoNope, 120k population college town. It is a really nice daycare, but nothing insane. We also have to provide the diapers and meals as well. But to be fair, the cost of living is quite high where I live. New build condos are going for $1 mil. Downtown apartments go for $2.5k/mo.
- RSHEPP 3y agoOh, AA is kind of an outlier for the Midwest though. Where I lived in the Midwest, prices were not even close to this. Having a tier 1 academic institution changes things a bit.
- qudat 3y agoHah, I guess I was descriptive enough to narrow down the town. You're right, of course. This place is filled with high paying, advanced degrees. You could throw a rock in a crowd here and hit 3 physicians.