How much babysitters get paid in Israel?

Ani ↓

Mon, Sep 21 2009, 8:52 am

A friend of mine was asked to babysit on a regular basis in Israel. What's the going rate now, does anyone know? Someone said that it is 7 shekel an hour, but can be as low as 5 shekel an hour. Surprised

Is it a joke? Can it be so? I want to help my friend to ask for a fair pay.

Raisin

Mon, Sep 21 2009, 9:44 am

Seraph wrote:

Depends where you live, the price varies. Here metaplot/babysitters get paid 7 shekel an hour...

wouldn't it be more for just looking after one baby?

natmichal

Mon, Sep 21 2009, 10:04 am

here kids gets 8-10 an hour. adult 15 (we're low on babysiiter supply). One of the hiloni kids here started charging 15 and another one followed, but I think it stayed 10 with the dati ones.
if you're metapelet for a whole day on a regular basis, I think it's different

Pizza

Mon, Sep 21 2009, 10:52 am

It also depends where the babysitting takes place:
If you bring your kids to her house, (and she can watch other kids, or do her laundry, etc) then its 10 nis/hr here (beit shemesh)
If she comes to your house, (and washes your dirty dishes while the kids sleep) then itsw significantly more - maybe 20 nis/hr and upp

Marion ↓

Mon, Sep 21 2009, 10:56 pm

A babysitter or childcare? I pay my teenage babysitter 15NIS/hour, my adults get 25-30. However most childcare providers (in their own homes) charge between 40-60NIS/day for the 8:30-1:30 time period.

↑ Seraph ↓

Mon, Sep 21 2009, 11:10 pm

Raisin wrote:

Seraph wrote:

Depends where you live, the price varies. Here metaplot/babysitters get paid 7 shekel an hour...

wouldn't it be more for just looking after one baby?

Halevai. Which is why those who watch babies watch more than 1 so that its more worth their while...

↑ Seraph ↓

Mon, Sep 21 2009, 11:12 pm

Keep in mind, posters, that OP was talking about regular basis babysitting... which wouldnt be a teenager, or the price you'd pay for an evening babysitter in your home, but rather a day time metapelet...

shabri

Mon, Sep 21 2009, 11:46 pm

Where I live (in Jerusalem) I pay 10 shekel an hr when I send out. My neighbor has someone coming to her and she pays 30 shekel an hr (but I think thats high, its usually abt 25)

↑ Ani ↓

Tue, Sep 22 2009, 12:22 am

Thanks a lot for all the replies. That was very helpful. Thumbs Up

Hmmm... quite a disparity, from 7 to 30 shekel an hour.

Perhaps, it's something to do with baby proliferation in a given area. Where it's 7 - there are lots of babies, while 30 where - fewer. Confused

ray family

Tue, Sep 22 2009, 12:32 am

if it's a metapelet it's usually bet 7-10 an hr
if its @ your house usually around 25 can go up to 40 but if it's on a regular basis you can pay around 15-20
also depends on the neighborhood

ora_43

Tue, Sep 22 2009, 2:15 am

OP, can you say what hours this would be, how many kids, in what type of area (hareidi? in a yishuv? in jerusalem? etc), at whose house, etc?

The extremes (in my experience) would be - if you bring your child to someone's house, where they are also watching other kids, every day during the morning, in a relatively low-income and large-family area - that would cost about 7 shekels/hour.

And if the babysitter comes to your house, where she watches multiple children, in the evening, in a relatively high-income area - that would cost around 25-30 shekel/hour.

↑ Ani

Tue, Sep 22 2009, 3:57 am

It's morning hours (till 1-2pm) in a haredi neighbourhood in Jerusalem. Just one baby on a regular basis + a toddler occasionally. My friend's place.

↑ Marion

Tue, Sep 22 2009, 4:03 am

When I sent DS#1 (during a daycare break) I believe I paid 10NIS/hour, plus 10NIS/day for food. (Food was not generally provided, but I was leaving him until 3:30, not 1. She was happy to feed him from her family's lunch, and I was happy to pay in order to not have to think about what to send.)

When I sent both kids (this past summer) it worked out to 85NIS/day for the 2 of them, and she didn't charge me extra for food (very nice of her; she could have and I wouldn't have batted an eyelash).

FraydaSue

Tue, Sep 22 2009, 4:05 am

There's a huge difference in babysitting costs, depending on where you live. My neighbor runs a "gan" for 1.5 year olds, and charges 430 nis a month - 8:30-1pm. The parents are complaining.

In Modiin, a workmate sends his 1.5 year old to a gan 8:30 - 1:30pm - 1,800nis!

↑ Seraph

Tue, Sep 22 2009, 4:42 am

FraydaSue wrote:

Yea, my gan for 2-3 year olds, 8-1 makes 450 shekel a month. Fridays till 12.
My sil in a nearby yishuv runs a gan for the same hours, but has off tuesday and friday and makes 650 a month per kid.

catonmylap

Tue, Sep 22 2009, 4:56 am

Seraph wrote:

FraydaSue wrote:

Yea, my gan for 2-3 year olds, 8-1 makes 450 shekel a month. Fridays till 12.
My sil in a nearby yishuv runs a gan for the same hours, but has off tuesday and friday and makes 650 a month per kid.

This year I pay 1100 NIS/month to send my 2.5 to gan from 7:30am-1:15pm, and Fridays from 7:30am-12pm (which I consider to be very good for around here)
Last year I paid 1800 NIS/month for 7:30am-4pm, and 2 fridays a month from 8am-12pm

We pay teenage babysitters 15-17 NIS/an hour. College & adult babysitters take at least 25 NIS/an hour.