In home child care. How much to charge?

[alicia080979]

I have an in-home daycare and my rates are $20 (school age), $25 (potty trained) and $30 (infants). Full days are over 5 hours. If there are two kids, it is $40 for a full day/$25 half day. I am not licensed (not required in Ohio for certain in-home facilities) but I do claim it on taxes and parents can claim the credit. Much cheaper than a daycare facility in this area as they run about $200 a week per child.

I would recommend some type of contract if I were you. I have heard of so many problems that can happen (not showing up, non-payment, etc.) it is just a good idea to protect you & the parent and clarifies all expections.

Good luck!

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

That sounds high for an unlicensed home daycare! For a potty trained child, I think $5 an hour is plenty (although I would pay more than double for someone who came to my house, of course). I'm in the NYC metro area.

Oh that's not for unlicensed. This is for home-based LICENSED day care with a curriculum. However most licensed day cares around here provide NOTHING. Everything they eat, diapers, the water for their bottles, etc comes from home.

Sorry for the confusion.

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

Wow, I do not know how some people afford daycare. For DD5 full time 5 days a week is $60.00 that includes lunch and snacks and thsi is at a home daycare. At this daycare they charge $70.00 a week if the child is in diapers.

That's why I only have one kid By the time my DD was through day care, I had spent $72,000 on day care. Now it's $4000 for kindergarten tuition, $2800 for the afterschool program, and $2000 for summer camp. Sadly seems like a walk in the park after day care