daycare costs Me thinking ahead to daycare costs, how much are you guys paying for daycare for your little ones? Just…

Girl I’d love to pay $175 a week are you kidding?!

It’s $225/week - $900/month for me. And I have a toddler. Rates for infants are worse.

I live in WA state and the daycare that's on our company property is $1500 a month, per effin kid ? but every daycare that I stopped by was about the same. Its just so damn expensive in WA. Thank god both of my parents are retired

Aww man it's so different around the country!!! I will check out care.com now and see how they are. My aunt watched my first baby and I paid her $100 every two weeks. I liked not having to pay a whole lot but then you have to deal with them doing what they want, not exactly what you want or how out want to raise your baby. I know it's pros and cons to every decision so. I got at least 3 months before I have to make a decision so we shall see!! Thanks for your input ladies ?

$950 where I live if the child is potty trained. If not potty trained $1050 a month.

Full time daycare in around San Francisco is approximately $3,000 a month

I pay $650 a month for my 2 year old and with my infant I'm paying $200 a week for 3 days. When he turns 1 in 2 months he'll be 650 as well and nothing is included for the $650. With my infant he's at our home and obviously we provide everything

What the?!!!? I pay 170 a week for my 3yo. I’ve paid that since he was 1yo. Includes meals, snacks, everything. All I used to have to bring was diapers now he’s potty trained.

It’s an in-home daycare and she is licensed and has some helpers. Look through your county’s website and you can make sure their licensed and see if they’ve had any complaints.

265/week for a toddler with meals and snacks included.

Omg I wish. In SF it's double to 3 times that.

My kids go to licensed daycares which means I can get subsidy..

For a preschooler its 500/month for ft.

I pay a parent portion of 150 and the goverment pays the rest.

For my son (infant) is 600/month ft. & i pay 160 a month.

So for 2 kids I pay 310 a month.

Infant for us is 225/week. I pay half of that as I work there so I get 50% off

We also worked weekends, so the "normal" weekday schedule would've never worked for us.

The daycare I’m looking at is $1650/mo CAD. So jealous seeing some of these rates ?

I don't pay a dime , lucky right, I'm grateful but I have state assistance that pay for my 2 yr old, it's a life saver! Try to look into that if your state has child care programs . Best of luck

For licensed daycare, it would've been $150/week every week plus the lady would've had 3 weeks off each year that we would still have had to pay her AND find someone else to watch our daughter. 2 of those weeks were for childcare seminars to keep the lady up to date with childcare stuff and properly registered; the other week was for her personal vacation.

It would've been Monday to Friday daycare from 5am until 6pm (earliest to latest) so the hours would not have worked for us anyways.

Instead, we used under the table babysitting. So no claiming childcare costs on taxes, but through my work we were able to set aside pretax money for childcare and we were able to be reimbursed with pretax money for the childcare incurred due to work. We just put down X's where it asked for her SSN, and said that she's exempt from paying taxes.

That worked much better for us, as we worked variable hours. So when we had to work from 3pm-midnight and pick up our baby at 1230am, the babysitter was ok with that.

The cost for the babysitter was $20/day. Just $20 cash, and she'd take care of our baby for us, in her home. She had other children she watched, and her teenaged granddaughters were also there, and they helped her with the kids.

It worked out very nicely for us.

Definitely look for a private sitter! The baby won't be exposed to so many other people which means less likely to get sick and it's MUCH cheaper. If you go to Care.com, you can find someone with great ratings by real people and you can schedule to meet a few times to see how baby does with that person. Way better than daycare!

Oh wow. Mine is $1500 per month for newborns

Newborns will def cost more Bc they need more care. I saw a place that was $250/wk full time so I think it depends on where you look and go.

I'm in Denver and it costs $1000-1400/month per kiddo for full-time daycare. DD is at a fantastic church-based daycare which is slightly cheaper than the other places around here, but we still pay $1100/month for her at 2 years of age. So freaking expensive!!!

In-home daycares are generally cheaper but I personally don't like the lack of accountability. In a regular daycare, there are a lot of regulations and checks (for example, our infant room has windows on almost all sides and people walk by all day long), so the chance of abuse is super duper low.

Church daycares tend to be a little cheaper.

My daughter only goes for 2 days a week. 8 am to 1245pm. It costs me $160 a month plus a 20% diaper fee. She is 2 and potty training with pullups. Not quite potty trained yet.

I pay $215 per week

Right now I pay hourly bc they only go one day, I calculated it out for PT since I’m hoping to change my schedule soon and it would be $880 a month for both kids, only up to 23 hours a week. YIKES!

In home daycares are generally cheaper but that’s where I live and it’s only about $30 a week cheaper.

Bottom line is, my salary is not going to cut it. I need a second job!!!

I babysit and charge $150 a week for infants .

That's full time

Oh average my kids maybe go 5-7 full days a week and maybe a half day or two depending on my husband's schedule. We pay around $600 a month.

I pay $195 a week currently for my 4 year old... for an infant I’ll be paying over $200 a week. It’s really expensive where I am.

I wish I could stay home and take care of my baby. But I have to work as it's only just me. Unsure if SO will help with this one. Right now, after paying bills, I'll only have $200 left over and I know that's not nearly enough

I started out paying 980 a month for daycare but with full subsidy I only paid 280. It’s now down to 220 a month with full subsidy but that’s in Alberta Canada.

It’s such a shame that daycare costs so much. I’ll be paying $160 a week for the baby and I pay 180 a month for my oldest who is in school and just does before and after school care. I’ve been stressing over the finances when baby comes.

Around my area, people usually pay 500 a month on average.

Luckily, I have all my family lives near me. So I have my parents, SO's parents, I have 3 sets of grandparents, and so's brother and sister who all watch her when I need them.

Try to find a private sitter instead. A lot of private sitters don’t charge more than $125/week.. at least around here.. when my daughter was at a private sitter, it was $100/week & I supplied a lunch..

When she went to day care, it was $168/week, wether she was there or not. So if she was sick for 2 or 3 days, I still paid the full amount.

150 a week is what I pay

I pay for 2 and its between $1000 and $1400 a month around here. I only make $1200 a month so I dont work anymore. I just work very occasionally when I'm free and hubby is home for the kids.

I pay $180 a week for my two year old. The newborn will be $190. Though I'm due in June and my daycare won't have any openings until February of 2019 for newborns.

That's normal and it's actually higher where I live. About $800-900 a month for one child in full time daycare. If you want a cheaper alternative see if you can find a stay at home mom that can watch your baby for less. If not, then you'll probably want to stay home with the baby otherwise you're only working to pay for childcare.

Wow that’s so low!! It’s well over $300 a week where I am on average.

I pay 198 a month but he only goes 1 day a week

I didn't have to go through this with my first bc my aunt watched her. And I just paid her $100 every two weeks. I cant apply for subsidy bc according to their requirements, I make too much ?

Definitely look into subsidy

155 a week

It's 800$ a month where I live. But you can apply for subsidy if you make under a certain amount. Not sure what the requirements are. I'm in Canada though.

for infant we paid 250 a week now hes toddler it's 220 a week

That's pretty average and it's more expensive for younger babies