Child Care

At the end of February I will be presenting my maternity leave proposal and I think it will help to have child care figured out when I present it.
I'm not familiar with average rates. What do you guys pay for child care?

I live in CA but my 1 year old cost me $1,200 a month. When we lived in AZ and she was an infant it was $250 a week full time.

That's going to vary GREATLY by location. Where are you from? It may be more accurate to call daycares in your areas and do the math to form an average.

I live in Georgia and it's 110 a week for a toddler

It's 48/day for 1 toddler here.

I pay my babysitter 40 bucks a day. Tues, Wed, Thurs from 8-5.

If she only watches him a half day (4 hours or less) it's 20 bucks.

For infants its at least 200 a week over here...
I pay 170.00 a week and jades 3, she goes 4 days a week and its a learning academy... they give them breakfast, and take their own lunches, they give snaks and milk/juice...
Its a private school so its more learning based, which is what she need because she thinks I'm a moron lol

Your best bet would probably be to go check out several day cares in your area and see what their rates are

Quoting Elle With Three &1/2:" That's going to vary GREATLY by location. Where are you from? It may be more accurate to call daycares in your areas and do the math to form an average."

I live near about a half hour from St. Louis, MO.

OQuoting :" I live near about a half hour from St. Louis, MO."

ok. Now, get out a phone book and make a few calls to daycares in that area tomorrow.

Quoting Elle With Three &1/2:" ok. Now, get out a phone book and make a few calls to daycares in that area tomorrow."

I e-mailed a bunch of places over my lunch break today.