<p>Interesting…I live in roughly the same area as mom60 and I was thinking the 200 sounded fine but…we have had a good friend do this for us before. There was very little driving needed, at the time my DD made her own food and was very self sufficient She was involved in ECs and was hardly home. And as stated, this was a friend. She said staying with our D was easier than some of the pet sitting jobs she has done.
I think it depends on your relationship with the person etc.</p>
<p>I think I am going to offer to pay her $250. I will also leave $40 for gas. I figure she will drive about 60 miles so she will have money left over from that.
Like in Ebeeee case the woman is a friend of mine. It is a case of I need someone to stay with my D and she could use some extra cash.
It is interesting the different responses.</p>
<p>I would say $100 a day. As a college senior (back in the day) I did overnight stays with four children and was paid $100 per day. That was oh, 25 years ago. Your D is independent and while she may not spend much time with the sitter, if something would go wrong it will be the sitter’s responsibility to handle it.</p>
<p>Again, just another benchmark and it doesn’t necessarily equate, but d does dog sitting, and charges $100-$125 for an overnite, (and may tack on a surcharge for distance) from 6pm till 7am, which will include an evening and morning feeding as required and full supervision. </p>
<p>If she’s required on-site for a 24 hr period, then it’s $200+ depending on how many dogs, if transport or dogpark/playtime, meds administration is involved.</p>
<p>My take is $125 plus a gas reimbursement is reasonable, based on her physical presence and transport duties. There’s some leeway… if the fridge and foodstuff are off limits, a food allowance stipend might be in order. If the filet mignon in the freezer and a bottle of wine from the rack is fair game. you might want to drop the per diem. </p>
<p>d sits for a couple of dogs where she’d be willing to pay the owners. ;)</p>
<p>We pay $100 a day for a dog sitter who sleeps over. </p>
<p>I’d think that the time measurement here for hours worked should really be the amount of time in the house per day. After all, the most important reason she is there is if something happens in the middle of the night - so even sleeping hours should count.</p>
<p>I would be in the $75-100 range. Since it is three days $250 seems like a nice amount to me. BTW - will she get your leftover macaroni and cheese? If so, maybe you can pay her a little less :)</p>
<p>worknprogress- she is allergic to wheat. She got back to me. In the past she has been paid $150 a day. We are now emailing back and forth to see if we can come up with a price somewhere in the middle.
Scualum- our overnight dogsitter charges $30 a night. She doesn’t have to walk them. She loves to come to our house. She loves dogs and lives in an apartment where she can’t have pets. Though usually we have a good friend who comes by twice a day to feed and throw the tennis ball when we go away. Our dogs don’t need an overnight sitter. With our friend we usually pay him with some sort of a gift or dinner out. Last time we gave him a case of Pelligrino soda from Costco. He loves it and doesn’t have a Costco membership. Now to think about it he would have watched my D for free!</p>
<p>In case of any real emergency my inlaws live 40 minutes away. Also we have another good friend who would take over charge if my D had any emergency.</p>
<p>When I was a nanny, and this was 20 years ago, I charged $75 per overnight. I cannot imagine paying someone less than that.</p>
<p>We pay 125.00 per 24 hours. She does alot of driving, dog, etc. plus cooks up a storm. Its pricey for us but worth it, and rare that we go off without the kids. We know they’re well supervised and she’s in her early 40’s, not a college kid.</p>
<p>If you have wifi and I can bring my computer and you are within driving distance of NYC, I am available for weekends.</p>
<p>I agree that sleeping hours should count as “hours on the clock.”</p>
<p>Around here (NJ), going out for an afternoon & evening (like to a wedding/reception or dinner/play in NYC) can easily cost $100+ since babysitters get around $12-15 per hour. Usually little kids are asleep by 8 but babysitters still expect to get paid for their time. Dog sitters get around $60/day - don’t know about overnight. So, I would expect to pay more than $100/day, plus cover all expenses (food, gas). Some families trade services - “I’ll watch your kid one weekend if you’ll watch mine this weekend”.</p>
<p>Update- the sitter came up with an hourly rate for the hours she was with my D. She also charged 15 dollars for the overnight. It worked out to about $130 a day. On our return we had a nice note from her that it was a pleasure and she was returning $90 as it was not as much work as she had thought. She said she now understands why people charge a flat rate. She realized that in the past all her sitting jobs had been with toddlers. The end rate was $100 a day plus expenses.</p>
<p>Interesting how it all turned out. I thought $100/day was a fair rate for this situation. And it just doesn’t make sense to do it hourly exactly given some was overnight, some while awake. A flat rate made sense given it was over a period of a few days. I think $100 was just right and about the level most here were recommending. I admire your friend who actually reassessed it after the fact and returned some of the money.</p>