13 years ago when we needed child care it actually would have cost me more than a weeks pay for a week of child care at the highest rate a line cook could get in my area. I was getting $13 an hour as a cook and putting in 45 hours a week. Child care was more than $600 a week for the cheapest option.
It’s the fucking regulations and high insurance premiums that force child care centers to charge too much. Then again I should have been getting way more since my job was ungodly busy.
It’s the fucking regulations and high insurance premiums that force child care centers to charge too much.
No it isn’t. It’s real estate costs and business loans. If you look at what these businesses are actually paying in terms of labor and compliance costs, it pales behind what they’re paying in rents and interest on debts.
You can find surprisingly cheap daycare options if you just identify a daycare center that owns its own building. That’s one reason why daycare through my local church is so cheap. All they’re paying for is people’s time (and they’re not paying much). But the people running that daycare are… very weird. And I don’t feel comfortable leaving my son with them eight hours a day. So I’m out an extra $1k/mo taking them to a secular center in downtown.
13 years ago when we needed child care it actually would have cost me more than a weeks pay for a week of child care at the highest rate a line cook could get in my area. I was getting $13 an hour as a cook and putting in 45 hours a week. Child care was more than $600 a week for the cheapest option.
It’s the fucking regulations and high insurance premiums that force child care centers to charge too much. Then again I should have been getting way more since my job was ungodly busy.
No it isn’t. It’s real estate costs and business loans. If you look at what these businesses are actually paying in terms of labor and compliance costs, it pales behind what they’re paying in rents and interest on debts.
You can find surprisingly cheap daycare options if you just identify a daycare center that owns its own building. That’s one reason why daycare through my local church is so cheap. All they’re paying for is people’s time (and they’re not paying much). But the people running that daycare are… very weird. And I don’t feel comfortable leaving my son with them eight hours a day. So I’m out an extra $1k/mo taking them to a secular center in downtown.