Daycare
 

How much are people spending (per week, per kid) on daycare?

I pay $100.00 per week for my 7 month old to go to In Home Daycare. He has a wonderful lady watching him who watches only 2 other kids, so he gets lots of one on one attention. She also has all the cool toys for him to play with.

is that for 5 days?

Nada, zip, zilch, zero. When my son was born, we decided my wife should stay home and take care of him.

About $50,000 per year.

My wife quit her job to stay home and raise our kids.

Don't have kids yet, but I figure with inflation on the economy, me not wanting to put them in a ghetto daycare and rising wages in this country, I will pay 285,000$ a year on daycare when I have kids.


That's it, I'm not having children.

Nothing....My wife works at a day care....It was a perk

$98 per week (5 days) for our 3 year old. Our 5 year old is in Kindergarten, but she is also in a before and after care program that costs $35 per week.

Yes, that is for 5 days. Whether he is there or not. His sitter gets 2 weeks vacation, (I still pay) 5 sick days (I still pay), and 2 religious holidays (I still pay). She's Muslim, but not middle Eastern. Converted to marry her ex-husband. Real sweet lady. I feel she's worth every penny in that my son doesn't go to one of those cookie cutter chain daycares that keep popping up.

My cousin gets a littl upset from time to time. He pays whether the kid is there o not, i.e. you take off Friday and have the kid ome with you, you don't get Friday refunded.

And they pay holidays - this is Columbus, OH. You may want to ask aout such things. Also is it just cah or can you pay by check, etc.

$350 (Canadian) per month during school and it various during summer vacation if I send my son to camp (he usually just spends the summer at the cottage).

This will more than double soon as my daughter will be going into childcare this fall...

My wife stopped daycare and started working in a preschool program at a local school. She used to charge $100/wk full time and $80/wk pt. Full time being 30-45 hours and pt time being 25-30 hours.. We had a few very pt times she charged them straight $3/hr

$0. Children should be raised and educated at home (when possible). My wife home-schools our 3 children. (the modern, American school system is a joke.)

Nothing...But I quit my job to raise them. SO I guess it cost me $25,000 or so. But it is so worth it.
I babysit on occaision and I charge $3/Hour.

I'm with 'clavus' on this one, about $50,000 a year. My wife quit her job when she had our first.

Good lord, I'm paying 1350 a month. Maybe I can quit and stay at home with kids. MMMMMMM, soap operas

You're paying 1,350 per month?!? How many kids do you have? :eek:

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.

when my wife was working it was $150/week. now that we've just had another kid we pulled our daughter out of daycare and she stays home with mom.