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Did they get fewer late pickups? Or do they just make more money?

• bell-cot 1y ago
  Any reason to think their baseline is making money? The arithmetic of daycare - market-minimum hourly pay for the workers, vs. legal minimum per-child staffing levels, vs. tight parental budgets - is damned ruthless.
  • johnnyanmac 1y ago
    Yeah I'm not sure if $2/minute even covers the potential overtime of a caretaker needing to stay later.
    • bell-cot 1y ago
      Unless it's some "Mrs. Smith's In-home Childcare" deal, it ain't a carer staying late at $2/minute - it's randomly keeping a business open, at $120/hour. With (good bet) a mandated-minimum staff of 2+. At SF wages. Plus the extra staff churn that randomly having to stay late causes. Parents wanting ever-so-forgiving cheap daycare need to move an idle grandma into town.