Price Range for In-home Day Care for Odd Hours...?

That's WAY high. For that much she could get a nanny and her kids wouldn't need to be carted back and forth in the middle of the night ever day! If she pays you that much, she's not going to be taking home much from her own work (I don't know many swing shift jobs that pay much more than $10/hr) and may as well stay home!

I think $150 a week is about as much as you can reasonably ask of her. If you can't swing it with that, have her ask someone else.

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The rates any state pays any childcare provider will be incredibly low. First of all, it's designed to HELP the parent pay. It's not the full pay the provider is to receive. The parent is to pay the rest. While I think 400 per week is a lot for an in home provider (more like nanny rates), I don't want to see you thinking too low of yourself either.

OUCH... I don't know what the rates are in your area. But I only get 100-120 per week where I am at for the hours you speak of. In fact, I have a harder time staying full on nights than on days. Most people that work the night shift are not making much money. So I often end up landing on the 100 dollar rate whether they have multiple children or just one.

That would be a lowball number in our area ($1600 per month PER child is pretty normal for the low end childcare options. AKA $3200 per month for both).

So... as you can see... it REALLY varies by region.

I would call around and see how much is the normal for your area.

call around & check with other local facilities. You'll need to stay within an appropriate range for your area.

Mid MO pulls a lot less!

That's way higher than anywhere in Oklahoma. I would call and see what the rates are at the local child care facilities. Most of them only get a couple of dollars per hour for children. Child care does not pay minimum wage.

Since you are not a professional care giver or have any training that is required to be one I would group you with a 1 STAR facility in Oklahoma.

In a 1 STAR facility in Oklahoma:

The average pay for an infant/toddler, ages 6 weeks to 24 months, $14.50 per day, does not matter what hours of the day, just for up to a 10 hour day.

For a pre/schooler: 25 months to 48 months, is $12.25 per day.

For a schoolaged child they would get $10.25 per day.

So you can see how outrageous your prices are compared to what an actual home child care that has a professional person with training and a licence can get when they take care of kids that get paid child care by the state of Oklahoma.

For an "Under 4" kids you would be paid a total of $24.5 per day.

If you had training and were licensed then I would expect you to be able to get higher pay. In Oklahoma a 1+ STAR facility gets a bit more but that person is going to be working on getting a much higher STAR rating by getting a fully accredited curriculum, getting some sort of college degree, all kinds of things to gain all the way up to a 3 STAR rating.

BUT, even in a 3 STAR home the state will only pay them $27.75 for a child under the age of 2 years and $23.75 per day for a child 24-48 months old. So that would be $51.50 per day, for the highest rated child care home in the state. That would only be $257.5 per week for about 50 hours of care, full time.

Pay scale for child care subsidy in Oklahoma:

http://www.okdhs.org/NR/rdonlyres/2E81F###-###-####-487B-...

Most kids are in child care at least 9 hours and most are for about 9.5 up to 10 hours per day. If the parents work an 8 hours shift then have a lunch hour that is already a 9 hour day, then they have travel time to and from work. If the boss or some co-worker doesn't catch them on the way out...well, it can be a full 10 hours easy.

i say 150-220 for 2 kids full time regardless of the hours. i got 150 for a family of 2 and when the older one (third kid) needed to be watched one day because school was out i just let him come over sense he was no big deal. i got 150 a week in chesapeake for this.

I pay $160/wk for 1 child - 3 years old - 7:30 am to 5:30 PM Mon - Fri. $400 actually seems pretty reasonable given the odd hours and 2 children. I assume you will have to be in their home in order to put the children to bed so you will have travel time?

In Newport News, I am paying 140/week for two children full time. One 6 and one 4. I have paid that since the 6 year old was 4. Yes, I pay for the 6 year old as full time even though she is in school because the sitter picks her up from school everyday. During the summer that same 140 covers most field trips they do (I have to buy the season pass, but generally the sitter covers most everything else). Occasionally if they are doing a couple of field trips in one week, she will ask for $10-15 extra. Bounce House, Chuck E Cheese, Water Country, Busch Gardens, museums, etc.

Your 400/week is a bit high. Maybe 400/month

You're joking right?