How Much Do You Pay for Childcare?

Can't you use Survey Monkey for collecting your statistics?

Oh, and I lie when taking surveys just to skew/screw with the numbers.

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Are you conducting a survey?? If so? This is not the place to do it.

1. No percentage.

2. Don't use any child care. I'm their mom. I'm home when they get home.

3. Mid-Atlantic region.

4. 3 kids - adult and teenager and one younger....sorry. don't know you nor what you are looking for so you aren't getting specifics from me.

Good luck with your survey!!

1. 0% (would have been over 50%)
2. Mommy
3. Not relevant
4. 2 Tweens

Not sure what homework you are doing but it is clearly not for a business class. What on earth does gross household income have to do with anything and it isn't an interesting number or calculation.

1. 0%
2. None
3. Midwest
4. 2 kids at home, ages 11 and 12.

I'm not putting out my percentage because it's really no one's business what my household income is, and if I give you my percentage, it's extremely easy to calculate. So...all 3 of my kids are in school full-time, but we still have a morning sitter, they are 7, 8, and 10. She comes over early so I can get to work early enough to get off early enough to meet the afternoon bus. We pay her $200 per week (whether she works at all or not).

Before that, I paid my sister $900/month to watch all 3 of my kids. She came to my house and watched them for 9 hours per day Mon-Thurs, then one Friday was 8 hours and the other Friday was off (80 hours per two weeks).

When my youngest went to an in-home daycare, it was $150 a week until he was 5 (school age) and then it was $125.

As my location indicates, I am in the VA/MD/DC region.

This question feels a bit like we're doing your HW for you. I'm suspicious that you have a paper due.

It will vary GREATLY on where you live. Just like anything else. Near a city? Pay more. Midwest vs the coast? Pay less.

I don't anymore, except for summer camps. Before my kids were in school? This is for my two little guys. I was a single mom with my oldest and he's 16 now so his numbers are a bit different, and I didn't provide daycare for my step-daughter, who lived with her mom.

1) 11%- 16% (went down over the years as our income went up)
2) That was for 2 days a week at a daycare center for 2 kids (avg. of $220 a week...a little more as infants, a little less as pre-schoolers but $55 a day for each, on average). My mom baby-sat the other three days.
3) Massachusetts, about 30 minutes outside of Boston
4) Four kids, ages 8-16 now

For FT care, we would have spent appx $1000 per month per kid, or anywhere from 25-35% of our income.

1. None.
2. None.
3. Northwest.
4. 3, toddler, 2 elementary.
Why are you asking this?

I'm not going to tell you how much we earn. Are you totally deranged? Sorry, line from a movie. We pay for summer camps and it's different every year.

I'm a stay at home mom.

We live in the South...

We have four boys. Their ages are NOT your business.

We pay $33800/year ($650/week), which is 9% of our household income. We live in Chicago, and our kids are 6 and 4.

Babysitting is harder to pinpoint, but we pay $12/hr when we get one.

1. ??? Not wanting to figure it out. $22.00 a day per kid.
2. Home daycare
3. Midwest.
4. 5 kids, but never had more than 2 in day care at a time.

I was just quoted by an experienced nanny in my area (Northeast Texas), and she told me, for two children one 5 year old and one 18 month old, 95-110 for three 10 hour days in home. I was asking her for guidance so I knew what to ask someone that asked me to care for their girls. I don't do much babysitting, if I do its a close friend and we just don't pay each other its the IOU system ;)... so I didn't even know what to ask! The Parents Day Out program where I take my kids 2 times a week is 15 dollars per a 5 hour day, which doesn't sound like much really, so I think that its rather good. I would expect in home to be a bit more. That's all I have. I have no idea what someone pays for full time care, hope that helped a little though.