I am putting an add in my mum's nursery for babysitting. I am just wondering how much to charge an hour and what is the average that most people charge?

Also could someone help me on the courses i could take for babysitting. Like how uch they are, where can i go for infornmation, and where copuld i go for the course?

well I babysit for a local family and they pay me £12 if they're home before midnight and £15 after midnight. I'm not sure how it is for other people, but the person I babysit for did research and stuff so it should be pretty accurate.
Also, my friends babysit and theyall seem to get paid around the £10-£15 mark too, so its pretty much the same

As for courses, I'm not sure if there are any courses, I think you just need to build up a good reputation for yourself because people talk, and if your name comes up and ppl trust you, they'll use you.

Good luck!!

my mums a pro childminder and charges £2.20 per hour from 6 till 6 .

i have no couses , and do evening type things at £2.50 per hour

aout £10 ? a night

courses , if like pople want to go pro . they must have courses , but like they become part of this babysitting thing and then that tells them what courses

i used to get £5 a nite!! how times have change!!

I get £5 an hour from one family.

i use t get £30 from 9pm-midnight but sometimes i had t stop over so i got £50! typical kids had t grow up!

I only ever did it a few times lol but i got £10 a night, which was for a few hours

I have been doing some research and i have found the average people charge per hour is between £4.50 and £8 (most charge about £6) and then extra £2 for another child. So i think i should settle with £5 per hour plus £1 for every other child. So say if i babysat for 2 children for 2 hours then i would charge £6 an hour therefore i would get £12. What do you think about this?

Courses for babysitting?

You can do a childcare course at college if that is what you mean.

I am already doing the child care course at college in september, but i though there was a special course you had to do.

I get £5 an hour! Over the past week i have earnt £80 babysitting!!!

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Originally posted by SophieOwen:
I get £5 an hour! Over the past week i have earnt £80 babysitting!!!

Do you babysit for the family? If not how did you go about advertising yourself? E.G. Did u stick adds up or just get people to pas son the message??

Oh and....have you done any courses or anything for it?