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I have a daughter but she doesn't go to day care. I run a home child care. All of the children I have a part timers so I have 6 different children here at sometime or another but never all together. I am transitioning from school year to summer vacation so numbers are up a little. I usually only have 3 children at at time. Most of the children are infants and toddlers. I have even had a newborn only 4 weeks old until he was 6 months. I charge 2.75 an hour but since I don't have any full time kids they average about $60 a week per child. When I have a full time child it usually averages about $120 a week. Partly because they are here for almost an hour longer than parents are actually at work. In order to pull in as much as I do now and pay for child care I would have to have a job that earns $9.00 or more an hour. In our area that is good pay. The amount I charge is about average for licensed and certified day care centers. Some charge up to $4.00 but very few charge under $2.00. Usually Day Cares charge more for infants because the legal infant to adult ratio is smaller and it costs them more to care for the infants. Children over 6 years old are usualy signifactly less because that ratio is much better. I care for the younger children because for one my daughter is younger and also I don't want more than 2-3 children anyway. More than that even if they are older and more capable gets a little difficult because I have a small home. Anyway I'd say local day care costs average around $120 a week for someone working a full time job.
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