What are your average operating costs?

[Ms.Jessica]

Per child?
You can add what your largest expenses are if you want.
I am looking to see if my projections are in line with the norm.

[yodaone]

I'm interested in this as well

[jenboo]

Food: $200 a month
Diapers and wipes: $80 a month
Insurance: $125 a month
New supplies: $50 a month
Increased utilities: never noticed a difference

Total: $455/ 6 kids = approx $76 a month per child.

[Ms.Jessica]

Food: $200 a month
Diapers and wipes: $80 a month
Insurance: $125 a month
New supplies: $50 a month
Increased utilities: never noticed a difference

Total: $455/ 6 kids = approx $76 a month per child.

This is exactly what I am looking for! thank you!
Do you mind if I ask what state you are in? Curious if your area has a low or high cost of living.

[jenboo]

This is exactly what I am looking for! thank you!
Do you mind if I ask what state you are in? Curious if your area has a low or high cost of living.

I was in las Vegas. I recently moved to Idaho but haven't reopened yet.

[midaycare]

I can't come up with that number because there is too much variation from month to month. Generally speaking my expenses are wipes, food, utilities, craft supplies, maintainence, daycare toys, paying my assistant (4 hours per week, $20 an hour), curriculum ($130 per month), and formula and baby food ($150 per month easy). I can guess that my expenses per child would be $200 per month.

I will write off at least $17,000 this year. But I have 1/3 of my home devoted only to daycare, and I have a huge percentage - a little over 60%. So that makes that number higher.

I also pay my assistant an inflated rate. I want the best. You can't get that here for $10 an hour.

[Josiegirl]

Wow, I can't even begin to guess. At least not until tax time.
I know food is by far, my biggest expense. This summer it's been sky-high.
I'll give you rough estimates for monthly costs this summer:
food 800 (I include wipes and paper supplies/cleaning products in that cost)
toys/books/activities 100 (lots of yard sale finds and art supplies)
daycare insurance 75

I can't think of any other costs except for household costs that gets the T/S formula(which I think for me is around 30%).
So the 975 above is divided by 10 dcks through the summer.
But as someone else said, it varies so much according to our needs that month.

[LindseyA]

My costs fluctuate as well. Food is always the biggest expense though. Thank God for the food program.... I wouldn't make any profit without it! I watch 2 SA in the summer, who are constantly starving