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I think I want to switch to a weekly rate for all my families by the first of the year and especially before I start any new families. Right now I charge a daily rate. We live in a very small town (less than 150 people) and it's in a rural area.
These are my current rates:
Full-time (40 hours+, 4 days or more)
Full-time infants-2 years $30/day
Full-time (2 years plus) $25/day
Part-time rates (min of 2 days a week)
infant 2- years $35/day
2 years and older $30/day
What would you suggest for a weekly rate?
Currently I have 1 full time family that are here Monday-Thursday. I have a part-time family, that their schedule changes weekly, and he's here 2-3 days a week, usually it's 2 half days and 1 full day. I'm being flexible with this mom for right now because we really need the income and every little bit helps. I don't know how to get her to pin down a solid schedule with me, she works at Walmart part-time and usually it's only in the mornings, I told her she had to guarantee me a minimum of $60/week, and I know I should have been more firm and said it had to be two full days or whatever. But the kid is kind of a PITA so I don't really mind the half days with him, but sometimes she thinks she can pay me for 1-1/2 days if he's only here that and I said "no, we agreed to a minimum of two days a week for him, all my full time families pay for a full time position even if they happen to only come 3 days or whatever." I also have one that's in kindergarten and she was here Mon-Thur during the summer and now she comes 5 days a week after school.
I do like working the Mon-Thur, but now this new mom throws in an occasional Friday here and there even though she told me she wasn't going to work Fridays. I'm fine with the kindergartner coming after school on Fridays because I have to be here for the bus for my DD and for my DS when he is done with preschool. I think I got spoiled since I started daycare in February having Fridays off
I'm getting ready to put an add in the paper again and think I'd like to change to a weekly rate, maybe a full time weekly rate and a part-time. Because right now, I'm flexible taking part-timers because we need the income and every bit helps, plus my DH wants me to be flexible with families because we need the income with raising four kids ourselves. Sorry for the rambling.
Any thoughts? Suggestions? Etc.? I've only been doing daycare since February and I feel like I am always finding something I want to change in my handbook.
FWIW, I also require they pay the Friday before for care the following week.
These are my current rates:
Full-time (40 hours+, 4 days or more)
Full-time infants-2 years $30/day
Full-time (2 years plus) $25/day
Part-time rates (min of 2 days a week)
infant 2- years $35/day
2 years and older $30/day
What would you suggest for a weekly rate?
Currently I have 1 full time family that are here Monday-Thursday. I have a part-time family, that their schedule changes weekly, and he's here 2-3 days a week, usually it's 2 half days and 1 full day. I'm being flexible with this mom for right now because we really need the income and every little bit helps. I don't know how to get her to pin down a solid schedule with me, she works at Walmart part-time and usually it's only in the mornings, I told her she had to guarantee me a minimum of $60/week, and I know I should have been more firm and said it had to be two full days or whatever. But the kid is kind of a PITA so I don't really mind the half days with him, but sometimes she thinks she can pay me for 1-1/2 days if he's only here that and I said "no, we agreed to a minimum of two days a week for him, all my full time families pay for a full time position even if they happen to only come 3 days or whatever." I also have one that's in kindergarten and she was here Mon-Thur during the summer and now she comes 5 days a week after school.
I do like working the Mon-Thur, but now this new mom throws in an occasional Friday here and there even though she told me she wasn't going to work Fridays. I'm fine with the kindergartner coming after school on Fridays because I have to be here for the bus for my DD and for my DS when he is done with preschool. I think I got spoiled since I started daycare in February having Fridays off
I'm getting ready to put an add in the paper again and think I'd like to change to a weekly rate, maybe a full time weekly rate and a part-time. Because right now, I'm flexible taking part-timers because we need the income and every bit helps, plus my DH wants me to be flexible with families because we need the income with raising four kids ourselves. Sorry for the rambling.
Any thoughts? Suggestions? Etc.? I've only been doing daycare since February and I feel like I am always finding something I want to change in my handbook.
FWIW, I also require they pay the Friday before for care the following week.
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