Babysitting rates

[hau kola]

My daughter is doing her first babysitting job in a few weeks for a friend of mine.
It'll be from 7 til midnight. What can she expect to earn and who sets the rate...my daughter or my friend?
TIA

[boxtops]

This might help - looks like £5 an hour is the norm http://www.netmums.co...nage-babysitters.html

[hau kola]

thanks boxtops....my friend suggested £5 plus a couple of WKDs for the whole evening.

[bednobs]

your friend is taking the mick. However i think a fiver an hour is too much (depnding on how old she is)

[annie0000]

I'd have thought "friends rates" = £20 plus a couple of wkds

[boxtops]

I wouldn't be happy about the WKDs, not when she's in charge of a child and she'll be on her own. Pizza would be more appropriate!

[hau kola]

She'll be with her boyfriend so it would be one WKD each.
She's 17 so if she got a full time job she would only be on £3.57.
I think £3 an hour would be a fair rate to suggest.

[boxtops]

Not being funny but I hope your friend sets ground rules - my friend's babysitter used to get it on with her boyfriend, left alone in a strange house - my friend came home early and was not best pleased!

[hau kola]

Of course you're not being funny boxtops, you don't know even know my daughter.

[boxtops]

Of course I don't, hau kola, and I didn't mean to cause offence - apologies if I did. I was only relating what happened to my friend - perhaps inappropriately. Sorry.

[Jan1957]

I think a fiver is taing the mick. At least £15 I would have said but myself would probably offer her £20.

[Jan1957]

"taking" . Bloody sticky k key.

[B00]

You do mean for the evening jan don't you and not per hour? Because if that's the going rate per hour, i'll do it!

your booze will be safe wth me, though your fridge contents might not.

[chrissa1]

Why include the WKD? If your daughter is 17 she shouldn't be drinking alcohol for another year. I wouldn't have been happy with my babysitter drinking while she was looking after my children, but then I come from a different generation.

[Jan1957]

Lol Boo. If it was per hour I'd do it as well. Not sure the booze would be safe with me though. I've topped a few bottles up with water when I was younger.

[hau kola]

No problem boxtops. My daughter wouldn't dream of disrespecting somebody elses house in that way. anyway, i think my friends daughter is allowed to stay up later on a saturday.

[sophie_1003]

£5 an hour is going rate, although I get slightly more when I babysit, probably because I qualified as a nursery nurse and bath the children and put them to bed rather than getting there and them already being in bed.

[DTCwordfan]

so we have concluded between 3 and 5, no booze......I also think it would be regionally dependent - here in the deepest mires of the SW 5 an hour would be a goddamn fortune. 3 an hour plus, perhaps, a small tip - so 5 hours, a purple.

[bushbaby_de]

As an aside, the age of 18 is for drinking in licensed premises or purchasing alcohol - you can drink at any age in private property.

[anneasquith]

WKD ?