# How much are babysitters making in your area?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 2, 2016, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-are-babysitters-making-in-your-area/756298 "2016-06-02T11:35:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-are-babysitters-making-in-your-area/756298/1 "2016-06-02T11:35:50Z")

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Curious as to how much teenage babysitters are making in your area?

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**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-are-babysitters-making-in-your-area/756298/2 "2016-06-02T13:40:49Z")

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Columbus, Ohio - We pay ours $12.00 per hour.

Edited: Sorry, I didn’t see you qualified this to just teenage babysitters. Our babysitter is in her early 20’s, nursing student at a local college.

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-are-babysitters-making-in-your-area/756298/3 "2016-06-02T13:47:05Z")

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I’ve seen discussions that say $10/hr here in the Cleveland/Akron suburbs.

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**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-are-babysitters-making-in-your-area/756298/4 "2016-06-02T16:58:59Z")

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I have a 14 year old boy just starting out.

We are figuring $5 an hour if the parents are home and $7 an hour for when they are not.

Its surprising how many parents want a sitter even if the mother is home because she just wants time for herself to get things done.

After a year he can probably go up to those rates.