Babysitter rates

[Fi from West Dulwich]

Please could someone advise me on what the going rate is for casual babysitting? Thank you in advance.

[Ruth_Baldock]

We paid our lad ?6 and hour and Mr B picked him up and gave him a lift home. He was the som of a good friend who is a childminder! Happy to pass on his name/ number

[bluesuperted]

I used to do very occasional babysitting for an ex-boss of mine whilst studying a few years ago. I used to get ?8 an hour (in ED) and usually rounded up to the nearest note! Was fab as they lived one street away too and have a lovely house.

[Monkey]

?8 for the evening plus taxi fare plus dinner

[ladywotlunches]

Wow Monkey - really??

who, what, when, where? - is the taxi fare to Luton? (there must be a catch?!)

[damzel]

We always give ours ?35 whether we come home at 10pm or midnight. A evening is an evening, afterall.

[Coach Beth]

We pay our babysitter ?6 an hour - she is a teenager of a friend, very good!

[VALFR59]

We pay 6?/h with a teenager girl, but we stay in ED, and go away from home after giving dinner and bath to my son

We pay 9?/h with our last nanny (all charges included: food and transport). it's more expensive but she manage all (bath, dinner, make all in order around my son staff and kitchen). And I am in confidence to go far from Dulwich.(she is able to detect if he is ill, give him the medics,takes time to help him to fall sleep etc.).

[Norfolkvillas]

We pay ?5 per hour, but like the above poster, we are rarely very far away, and our son is fast asleep throughout, so no real childcare involved...

[sillywoman]

15 year old daughter & her friends charge ?5 per hour and a safe ride home (if we don't collect her).