/ Source : TODAY

Babysitting has become quite a lucrative business concern! 2021 rates for babysitting are more than twice the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.

The average hourly rate for a babysitter is $18.36 for i child and $21.23 for two kids, co-ordinate to the 2021 annual study compiled by UrbanSitter.

This means the sitter's total have-home for one evening could come close to the full toll for a dark out on the boondocks for the parents.

"Rates have gone up yr over year, sort of in line with inflation," admitted Lynn Perkins, UrbanSitter's CEO.

Rates for babysitting

The report surveyed families across the state on diverse data, including their pay for sitters 16 and older.

The virtually expensive sitters lived in the San Francisco area, where the boilerplate hourly charge per unit was $21.17 for one child and $23.56 for two children. On the other cease, Las Vegas sitters made the to the lowest degree, charging an average of $12.53 per 60 minutes for one child and $17.18 per hr for ii kids.

Babysitting rates for 2021

The rates in other urban cities varied (the survey did non include rates in more than rural areas).

  • Atlanta, GA: $16.86 (one child), $17.47 (two children)
  • Austin, TX: $17.26 (one child), $19.49 (ii children)
  • Boston, MA $eighteen.69 (one child), $21.xiii (two children)
  • Chicago, IL $16.06 (one child), $17.02 (two children)
  • Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX $13.72 (one child), $16.50 (ii children)
  • Denver, CO $15.84 (one child), $xviii.89 (2 children)
  • Houston, TX $17.07 (one child), $19.x (two children)
  • Las Vegas, NV $12.53 (ane kid), $17.18 (two children)
  • Los Angeles, CA $18.26 (i kid), $24.eighty (two children)
  • Nashville, TN $15.31 (one child), $17.16 (ii children)
  • New York City, NY $xviii.94 (one child), $22.13 (two children)
  • Philadelphia, PA $fifteen.xix (i kid), $17.09 (ii children)
  • Phoenix, AZ $16.lxx (one child), $19.52 (two children)
  • Portland, OR$fifteen.98 (one child), $17.thirty (two children)
  • San Antonio, TX$12.54 (one child), $13.55 (two children)
  • San Diego, CA $sixteen.02 (one child), $19.sixty (ii children)
  • San Francisco, CA $21.17 (one child), $23.56 (two children)
  • Seattle, WA $18.82 (i child), $20.67 (ii children)
  • Washington, DC $18.00 (one kid), $19.38 (two children)

Although rates accept gone up over the years, so has the creativity of parents who have establish means to minimize babysitting costs, Perkins told TODAY.

Some parents have arranged to double-up with friends so they could go out both sets of kids at 1 house and the split the toll of the sitter at the cease of the night.

"I don't actually know if the parents end up going to the same eating place equally each other, or if they're simply sharing a sitter. Just for kids who are a footling scrap older, this ends up being kind of fun for them because they're with a friend, and the babysitter," Perkins said.

Other tips she offered parents to aid lower babysitter costs:

  • If you're going out on a engagement, consider doing then on a weeknight. Many sitters are willing to accept a lower hourly rate if it's not on a Friday or Saturday evening.
  • The less work the sitters accept to do, the less you accept to pay them. Some sitters volition agree to a lower rate if the kids are fed, bathed and in their PJs by the time they arrive.
  • When hiring adults who take young children of their own, consider assuasive them to bring their kid with them to the task. "This is a slap-up way to get a lower rate," Perkins said.

This story was originally published in 2019 and has been updated with the most contempo data.