How much would you charge for a whole week 24/7?

[jokalima]

Hello,

I have a family that needs to travel to get some business done and they cannot take the baby with them. They asked me if I could care for him for 5 to 7 days. What will you charge for this? The double of a week? How would you go about this one? The company pays for the DC expenses during that week.

[TwinKristi]

I would charge a higher rate for evenings, like perhaps double what you charge during the day. Here I charge $50 for the day, so I would charge an additional $100 for an overnight so $150/day.

[butterfly]

will licensing allow this? I don't believe it's allowed here. I don't think we can provide 24 hour care for a child, without them leaving our care. I know our food program will not reimburse children who are in our care for 24 hour care. I don't understand the reasoning why though...

I would do atleast double, maybe more and make sure the parents allow you to transport their child. I wouldn't want to be stuck at home for 24/7 for several days.

[MotherNature]

At least double pay. I've never kept a child overnight, but I have had a family ask if I could watch their child on a Saturday. I don't do Saturdays. Before I even said anything, they said, we know you're closed on Saturday & if you can't or won't we totally understand. But we'll pay you double for the day..basically 7 hrs of work. I took her with me to my church yard sale I was helping to run, we played on the playground there, & my husband took her home with our son while I ran the sale. They knew my husband was watching her & were fine with that & we got paid double, so it was worth it fo us for a day.

[DaycareMom]

At least double pay. I've never kept a child overnight, but I have had a family ask if I could watch their child on a Saturday. I don't do Saturdays. Before I even said anything, they said, we know you're closed on Saturday & if you can't or won't we totally understand. But we'll pay you double for the day..basically 7 hrs of work. I took her with me to my church yard sale I was helping to run, we played on the playground there, & my husband took her home with our son while I ran the sale. They knew my husband was watching her & were fine with that & we got paid double, so it was worth it fo us for a day.

Wow! One of my (former - for a reason ) DCFs asked me to watch their 2 kids on a Saturday. I asked them to pay me an extra $15/per child on top of my normal daily fee. They refused and were angry with me for charging them more. ::
Never been happier for a family to term!

[Annalee]

Hello,

I have a family that needs to travel to get some business done and they cannot take the baby with them. They asked me if I could care for him for 5 to 7 days. What will you charge for this? The double of a week? How would you go about this one? The company pays for the DC expenses during that week.

WOW.....that is like three shifts a day.....triple pay if it were me, but I could not do it due to licensing standards in my state but I guess I could do it as a "friend".... BUT I seriously doubt they would pay what I would want for the job...::

[KidGrind]

$500 for 5 days
$750 for 7 days I would add an extra $25 per each day past 5.

[sharlan]

I watched a dcb once while his parents went on a cruise. I charged 2 1/2 times his regular rate.

[Cradle2crayons]

I charge 20-25 a shift depending on age. So, for a baby, it would be $75 a day x 7 days.... So $525 plus they have to provide enough supplies and a refundable $50.00 deposit in case they forget something the child needs. If I don't have to use it they get that back, if I have to use it, I show receipts.

[MotherNature]

As Sharlan stated, 2 1/2 times sounds like a good fair cost. I'd charge that too most likely..especially if the kid was easygoing.

[jokalima]

Honestly, I'm not 100% sure how licensing sees this. But IDK why I could not do it for a friend? I mean, if licensing was to come. She is going to get a treatment done in another state, they already told her children are not allowed while she gets her treatment done. She has no one, no family members at all in this state, same for her partner. Both of them moved last year to this state. Basically I am the only person she knows and trust to take care of baby while she is gone. I really don't mind because it's a extremely good baby and my family loves that baby, but I do want to be fare with my self and family and charge what I am supposed to charge to any other parent regardless my relationship with them. I say this because we've been out a couple of times, my family and her you know, non day care related stuff because we like her, but business is buisness

[Cradle2crayons]

Honestly, I'm not 100% sure how licensing sees this. But IDK why I could not do it for a friend? I mean, if licensing was to come. She is going to get a treatment done in another state, they already told her children are not allowed while she gets her treatment done. She has no one, no family members at all in this state, same for her partner. Both of them moved last year to this state. Basically I am the only person she knows and trust to take care of baby while she is gone. I really don't mind because it's a extremely good baby and my family loves that baby, but I do want to be fare with my self and family and charge what I am supposed to charge to any other parent regardless my relationship with them. I say this because we've been out a couple of times, my family and her you know, non day care related stuff because we like her, but business is buisness

Licensing would likely think if you are "doing it for a friend" it wouldn't be money involved. Once you involve money, it becomes licensing's business, if you are licensed. Like you said, business is business and I don't know if you can have it both ways.

[jokalima]

You have a point there, valid one I must say. But I could not turn my back on her and I could not do it for free.:confused:

[Cradle2crayons]

You have a point there, valid one I must say. But I could not turn my back on her and I could not do it for free.:confused:

Are you licensed or legally unlicensed?

[Blackcat31]

If you are a licensed family care provider in Connecticut, your rules state:

"A "family day care home" which consists of a private family home caring for not more than six children, including the provider's own children not in school full time, where the children are cared for not less than three or more than twelve hours during a twenty-four-hour period and where care is given on a regularly recurring basis except that care may be provided in excess of twelve hours but not more than seventy-two consecutive hours to accommodate a need for extended care or intermittent short-term overnight care."

I take that to mean you can't care for a child consecutively for as long as this parent has asked IF you are open for others during this time.

I understand her need to ask you but the way I am reading your licensing rules, it wouldn't be allowed.

I think that you could MAYBE find a way around it IF you applied or asked for a variance. That might be your best route.