What do you pay an evening sitter?

[Tania]

Okay I want to find a sitter so I can get out and talk to someone who is a tad older then 9.. I'm not sure of the going rate of a sitter anymore.. Hourly by the evening.. My neice usually babysat for me on the rare occasions when I'd go out.. she was cheap $20 a shot.. She just lives too far from me.. I have three kids.. 3,6, 9..... HELP?

[Marigold]

My son, 13, babysits- he charges 5.00 per hour for one child, and I think 6.00 for 2- It depends on the sitter though, and their experience. My son's pretty new and only started about six months ago.

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