<p>We are going out of town for 72 hours. We have asked a young 30’s woman we know to stay with our D. The majority of the time my D will be at school or her afterschool EC. I have arranged another Mom to do the afterschool pickup. The sitter will drive 2 mornings to school and 1 afternoon home. It will involve 3 evenings of feeding my D and supervision. The reality of it is D is old enough to basically take care of herself. The older person is mainly there to support and make sure D is safe and to do some driving. My D is capable of feeding herself.
I will leave money for food and gas. I don’t know what to pay her? I have asked her what she would like to be paid but she has not come up with an amount.
What have you paid for an overnight sitter/companion?</p>
<p>Well, I pay my dog sitter $60 a day for about the same services. I don’t know if that’s any help.</p>
<p>It has been a very long time since I have ever done that. If this person only has to be there in the evening and the driving and has the entire day free, I would think at least $75/day?</p>
<p>I think it depends on where you live…I would pay $100/day. It’s assuming she’ll do about 5 hours worth of work per day, $20/hr.</p>
<p>I’d agree. About 75-100 a day.</p>
<p>We pay our pet sitter (sleeps in our house) $32 per day. She walks the dog, which I assume your kid sitter won’t be doing. 
I think this is a steal. I would pay about $60 for the kid-sitter.</p>
<p>The question is - is it easier to take care of a pet or a kid? I wonder what our kids would think that we compare them to pets.</p>
<p>In our case the kid might be easier.</p>
<p>What if we were to pay based on value or importance? Hmm…</p>
<p>I don’t think it matters which is easier. It’s paying for the time. This person is spending all evening, also over night and early morning. I can’t see paying less than $75 for that kind of time for someone who is an adult as well. I might even consider $100/day.</p>
<p>Another option, if this is too costly, is to let D go home after her activities but to spend the night at a friend’s house.</p>
<p>I pay an overnight sitter for my elderly mother $100. She gives my mother her meals and is there, in case she falls.</p>
<p>The range of responses is exactly the range my husband and I fall in. My H feels $200 for the 3 days which works out to 66 dollars a day. I don’t think that is enough. I thought $100 but that might be too much.
Oldfort- it probably works out to about 4-5 hours max a day that they would be together. In the evening my D will come home from her EC activity eat some dinner, do her homework and most probably get on the computer with her friends or watch some TV. Most school nights aside from dinner we don’t see her. We joke that after dinner she enters her cave.
The sitter normally doesn’t do this kind of work. She is a friend who could use some extra money. She also lives in a small apartment so coming to our house is a bit like going on a vacation.
The sitter would also feed our dogs. No walking involved as we live on a large rural lot. But she will have to throw the tennis ball for our younger dog. She will bring along her own dog.</p>
<p>I (a 20-year old) have stayed for 3-5 days with a four year old and a five year old, 24 hours a day, driving to activities, feeding all meals, taking care of pets, cleaning the house, etc. and got paid $125/day each time so I guess I would tend to agree more with your husband’s assesment since the child is so much older and requires less time.</p>
<p>In my opinion, it doesn’t matter if your D is in her own room and the sitter is barely doing much with her. It still is her TIME. So, even if it is 5 hours of time while awake (there is that early morning time too and driving to school), if you paid $75, that isn’t really too much in my opinion as it is $15/hour (as teenage babysitters my kids got almost as much) and she is an adult and the other factor is that even when she is sleeping, she is not in her own home and so there is that time as well (but obviously would not pay by the hour so much for those hours but can’t discount that she is not free during that time or in her own home). I think talking about what she does or that your home is like a vacation is not all that relevant. She is being paid for her time and for the responsibility of being there for your kid just in case, etc. That is why I think any less than $75 per day is too little and would even consider paying more than that.</p>
<p>It’s been about 8 years since I had to have overnight sitters but at that time I paid $100 - $125 depending on which person I hired for an all day overnight into the morning sitter.</p>
<p>minimum amount—$100/day plus tip</p>
<p>I also agree --min $100 a day. (Tip would be nice.)</p>
<p>I paid $100 when the sitter had full responsibility for 24 hours - either when the kids were not school-age, or weekend days when they were older. For days when the kids were in school all day (and sitter could leave, go to another job, etc.) I paid $75/day.</p>
<p>My MIL pays $120 for a 24 hour stay from a CNA which includes food prep, showers, dressing, toileting of a wheelchair bound person. The homecare person is expected to be ‘on’ for 10 hours a day and sleep there. Seems to me it would be cheaper for the person hanging out with a teen??</p>
<p>If I were to sum up the responses so far…it seems like it comes in at between $75 to $100 for the service you’re looking for.</p>