Day care / preschool cost (1 Viewer)

[Mr. Chumley]

I think this has been done before but I'd like to see some updated numbers as well as gripe a little about the cost.

Right now we are paying $120 a week. I know that is pretty cheap but you get what you pay for and we're trying to find a new place. Every where else we are findng runs between $8000 and $10,000 a yr. It's worse because our son was born in October so we get an extra year of this since he has to be 6 before Sept 30 to start public school.

 

[Courtjester]

Our 3 year old is in pre-school and we pay $100.00 a week, but that includes them providing lunch each day.

They also agree to have my 8 year old come there for free on days that there is an early release from school. They actually have a shuttle bus that goes to my daughter's school and picks her up. We got lucky with this wonderful place.

I know people paying $250.00+ a week for programs that aren't half as good.

 

[Bobcat10]

$200/week for my 2.5yr old. We were paying less in a larger daycare center type place, but my son ran into some health issues and we pulled him in favor of somebody's home.

Can't wait for preschool as I know the cost will go down.

 

[Superbowl Shuffle]

$155 for the 2 years old son.

$210 for the 4 month old daughter.

5% discount for multiple children at the daycare center = $346.75 weekly.

 

[Norman Einstein]

17mo old and 5yr old twins....daycare $180/week...preschool for the twins $120/month

 

[Peter_Griffin]

This much

Not sure how much the numbers have changed since we complaint about this 2 months ago.

I still pay way too much ($1800/mo for 2 kids)

 

[The Kansas Comet]

$230 per week for full-time day care (8-5) for my 2-year old.

 

[Brutis]

I pay 110.00 a week for my 4 year old daughter. I need her to start school so i can get some of that cheap daycare.

 

[Kraft...]

Half day preschool (9:00-12:30) three days a week for my 4yo is $355 a month. No daycare, wife is home 3 days and my mom watches them the other two days.(7yo, 4yo, 2yo and 3 months). Very lucky to have such a good situation.

 

[Lowen1]

$1192/month for full time day care for a 3yr old. We send his lunch everyday. Going rate in our town is $800 - $1300/month.

 

[dino259]

$215/week for in home in the Madison, WI area. Good group of kids that get to do quite a few activities

 

[DanFouts]

Two kids.....(3 1/2 and 1 1/2).....$2100 a month ($525/week)..I guess that's about $260/week per child...

Washington DC.....

 

[Please See Mine]

Our 3 year old is in pre-school and we pay $100.00 a week, but that includes them providing lunch each day.They also agree to have my 8 year old come there for free on days that there is an early release from school. They actually have a shuttle bus that goes to my daughter's school and picks her up. We got lucky with this wonderful place. I know people paying $250.00+ a week for programs that aren't half as good.

Front for criminal enterprise.

 

[SFBayDuck]

$1650 per month for my 4 year old, covers preschool as well as before and after-care, so 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM.

I so can't wait for public school Kindergarten in the fall. That'll run us probably $700 or so for the after-care, it's going to be like getting a big ole raise at work!

 

[Dope]

Half day preschool (9:00-12:30) three days a week for my 4yo is $355 a month. No daycare, wife is home 3 days and my mom watches them the other two days.(7yo, 4yo, 2yo and 3 months). Very lucky to have such a good situation.

Very similar to me.I pay $160 every 2 weeks.

 

[azgroover]

$1650 per month for my 4 year old, covers preschool as well as before and after-care, so 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM. I so can't wait for public school Kindergarten in the fall. That'll run us probably $700 or so for the after-care, it's going to be like getting a big ole raise at work!

Does that cost cover breakfast, lunch, and dinner too?

 

[SFBayDuck]

$1650 per month for my 4 year old, covers preschool as well as before and after-care, so 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM. I so can't wait for public school Kindergarten in the fall. That'll run us probably $700 or so for the after-care, it's going to be like getting a big ole raise at work!

Does that cost cover breakfast, lunch, and dinner too?

Nope, no meals. Not that it would matter if they did as my daughter has multiple food allergies so we'd have to send her food anyways.Part of the reason we've put up with paying so much the last 3+ years is because they've banned peanuts and tree nuts for her, and we feel comfortable with the staff in their ability to keep her safe. There also is a paramedic next door at the associated health club (it's a Jewish Community Center, although we're not Jewish).Doesn't make it any easier to watch that come out of the account every month, though.

 

[belljr]

I think this has been done before but I'd like to see some updated numbers as well as gripe a little about the cost.Right now we are paying $120 a week. I know that is pretty cheap but you get what you pay for and we're trying to find a new place. Every where else we are findng runs between $8000 and $10,000 a yr. It's worse because our son was born in October so we get an extra year of this since he has to be 6 before Sept 30 to start public school.

2.5 year old210 a week. 52 weeks. = 10,920We have to pay whether we are on vacation, she is sick etc etc.We supply - diapers, wipes and lunch as well. She goes from 8:30 - 5. Her fulls hours are 8-6 if we choose. They provide morning and afternoon snacks

 

[Apu]

$780/month for an infant for 4 days a week.

We provide diapers, food, etc. They provide germs.

 

[fat_kid]

2.5 yr old we pay

$176/week for 3 days a week...

This includes diapers and lunch.

 

[Please See Mine]

202/wk for a 3-year old from 7-ish to about 4-5 (could be as late as 6). Phila suburbs.

My MIL is her teacher.

They also have a 10-month program with the summer off, which is nice cuz my wife is a teacher, so we don't really need it then.

 

[sho nuff]

$125 per week for the 3 year old.

Getting ready to add another 180 per week when my daughter is 16 weeks (though, we get a $5 discount for having 2 there).

When my wife goes back to work...I am seriously thinking about staying home with both of them and finding something to make a bit of scratch on the side (she does make more than me and is in a job where if she leaves, it would be much harder for her to get back to her current position...whereas I could leave and probably come back to something similar in 5 years when they are both in school)

 

[Third]

3-yr-old and 1-yr-old ...

...we pay $0 for 3 days per week.

My wife is the director.

 

[skillz]

$161 per week for a 3 year old.

Goes 5 days/week, and the cost includes meals.

 

[Jayrod]

My wife stays home with our 20 month old son.

But she does provide day care for two girls, both only 2 days per week.

One is the same age as our son and her mother currently pays $20/day. It used to be $30, but her husband lost his job, started drinking again (alcoholic) and they got divorced. To help her out, my wife dropped the price until he gets another job and can chip in and the price will go back up to $30. She is dropped off around 8:30am and picked up around 5:30 pm.

The other girl is almost 3 and her parents pay $35/day and drop off around 6:30 am and pickup around 3:30 pm.

ETA: Both families provide most of the food, but my wife does supply some snacks.

 

[brettdj]

4 year old

$165 / week for 3 days during the week

We provide lunch, they provide snacks.

 

[Mr. Chumley]

This much

Not sure how much the numbers have changed since we complaint about this 2 months ago.

I still pay way too much ($1800/mo for 2 kids)

yeah but #####ing in an old thread just isn't the same as doing it in a fresh one.We found a great school with a preK program for $5500 a year but then we have to add $4 a day for lunch and $50 a week for after school care. Of course that only covers the school year so in the summer we will have to send him and my daughter to a summer care program.

This kid is causing me to delay my mid life crisis for a couple years. Once he gets into public school I'm going of the deep end and buying a motorcycle.

 

[Pick]

$580 per month for preschool. They provide breakfast and lunch if needed. Field trips can sometimes be a bit extra. If I need them to watch my older kids or pick them up it's $16 per kid per day. Daycare/preschool isn't something to mess around with and if you find a good one then pay the $.

 

[ClownDogs]

$1010/month for 6 month old near Philly.

 

[rgabbard]

My mother started a daycare in the Cincy are 2 years ago and charges $140 a week per child. She's one of the cheaper ones in the area, and she's doing OK in terms of making money. And by OK, I mean making 25K-30K.

She's not franchised, so these early years are going to be a little rough on her in terms of making $$. Most of her profits now (after paying teachers, building lease, materials, etc.) go towards paying her startup loans.

As far as the size of the daycare...she has 47 kids last time I checked. I know her max allowed is 55 kids for the size of her building space. I'm not sure what she's going to do once that she reaches that max amount. She's talked about starting another one in a neighboring suburb but we'll have to wait and see.

Just thought I'd give some insight on the flip side of things....

 

[TheWalkmen]

I'm currently paying $305 a week for my 14 month old. My wife is due with baby #2 in April, so in mid-July we plan to have 2 in daycare at the same place. We will get a 10% discount on the older child so that puts us at $274.50 per week for the older child and $305 per week for the younger child for a total of $579.50 a week. Annualized at 50 weeks that's $28,975 cash. That includes food though. F me.

Oh, when the youngest turns 2 we'll be at $512 a week combined, annualized at 50 weeks it's $25,600.

Anyone else paying this much?

 

[danielmclark]

I'm currently paying $305 a week for my 14 month old. My wife is due with baby #2 in April, so in mid-July we plan to have 2 in daycare at the same place. We will get a 10% discount on the older child so that puts us at $274.50 per week for the older child and $305 per week for the younger child for a total of $579.50 a week. Annualized at 50 weeks that's $28,975 cash. That includes food though. F me.

Oh, when the youngest turns 2 we'll be at $512 a week combined, annualized at 50 weeks it's $25,600.

Anyone else paying this much?

Holy #### snacks that's expensive. We kept both our kids home (I work from home) until they were Pre-K age, so I can't speak to costs before that age, but my son is Pre-K right now and we're paying $160 a month for 9am-2pm two days a week. I think the three days a week class was $190 a month. It's a church school (I was overruled on that point) and food's not included. But... it's Pre-K. As long as he comes out of it ready for public school Kindergarten, I'm happy. I think my daughter's Pre-K was about the same, but that was a different school and it was 4 years ago so I don't recall.

I feel for you guys that have to have young kids in week-long daycare.

 

[culdeus]

It is not uncommon to hear full time daycare costs in DFW close in on $15k annually now.

They can charge whatever they want. The area has had so much influx of people that the daycares are full regardless of what they charge.

You can go put them in a church daycare, but those are real hit and miss on quality and the people they get to work there.

 

[shadyridr]

My son has been in daycare since he was almost 2. He's now 4.5. They don't have universal prek here so we just kept him in daycare this year. We have paid $225 a week. Can't wait until kindergarten in september. Its like getting a $10k a yr raise

 

[matuski]

San Antonio daycare we had our two kids in 2 years at $2200/mo, 2.5 years at $1700/mo, 1 year $900/mo for 1 kid. One kid in school now, other one in school starting fall. They have an afterschool care deal for $150/mo per kid. Like shady said.. similar to a huge raise.

 

[17seconds]

We put both of our kids through part-time daycare for 2 years each before kinder. Right now we pay $375/mo for my 4yo daughter to go from 8am-12pm M,W,F. Works out to about $8/hr. Pretty good price and I like the place a lot. It's a christian daycare which wasn't really part of the equation - we sent them there mostly for the price. It's also only a 1/2 mile away from home. My wife is a SAHM so it's been mostly for her convenience and to get the kids used to a social school environment before kinder.

 

[shadyridr]

The thing i like about mine is we dont have to pay for food. They provide bfast and lunch

 

[James Daulton]

I'm currently paying $305 a week for my 14 month old. My wife is due with baby #2 in April, so in mid-July we plan to have 2 in daycare at the same place. We will get a 10% discount on the older child so that puts us at $274.50 per week for the older child and $305 per week for the younger child for a total of $579.50 a week. Annualized at 50 weeks that's $28,975 cash. That includes food though. F me.

Oh, when the youngest turns 2 we'll be at $512 a week combined, annualized at 50 weeks it's $25,600.

Anyone else paying this much?

Would you ballpark what your wife brings home? Because for my wife and me the money difference would have had to have been pretty large for us to put the kids in daycare (we didn't). I'm talking about if it cost $25k, she'd have had to have brought home at least $65k to make it worthwhile.

 

[shadyridr]

I'm currently paying $305 a week for my 14 month old. My wife is due with baby #2 in April, so in mid-July we plan to have 2 in daycare at the same place. We will get a 10% discount on the older child so that puts us at $274.50 per week for the older child and $305 per week for the younger child for a total of $579.50 a week. Annualized at 50 weeks that's $28,975 cash. That includes food though. F me.

Oh, when the youngest turns 2 we'll be at $512 a week combined, annualized at 50 weeks it's $25,600.

Anyone else paying this much?

Would you ballpark what your wife brings home? Because for my wife and me the money difference would have had to have been pretty large for us to put the kids in daycare (we didn't). I'm talking about if it cost $25k, she'd have had to have brought home at least $65k to make it worthwhile.

why 65k? I know theres tax benefits/credits etc with a single income but 40k worth?

 

[James Daulton]

I'm currently paying $305 a week for my 14 month old. My wife is due with baby #2 in April, so in mid-July we plan to have 2 in daycare at the same place. We will get a 10% discount on the older child so that puts us at $274.50 per week for the older child and $305 per week for the younger child for a total of $579.50 a week. Annualized at 50 weeks that's $28,975 cash. That includes food though. F me.

Oh, when the youngest turns 2 we'll be at $512 a week combined, annualized at 50 weeks it's $25,600.

Anyone else paying this much?

Would you ballpark what your wife brings home? Because for my wife and me the money difference would have had to have been pretty large for us to put the kids in daycare (we didn't). I'm talking about if it cost $25k, she'd have had to have brought home at least $65k to make it worthwhile.

why 65k? I know theres tax benefits/credits etc with a single income but 40k worth?

$40k is just a number I threw out there. The premise is that the money would have to be enough that my wife would be ok missing not being there with the kids all day, having to get the kids up each morning, missing big milestones like potty training, etc. The wife definitely wanted to be a stay at home mom.

 

[shadyridr]

I'm currently paying $305 a week for my 14 month old. My wife is due with baby #2 in April, so in mid-July we plan to have 2 in daycare at the same place. We will get a 10% discount on the older child so that puts us at $274.50 per week for the older child and $305 per week for the younger child for a total of $579.50 a week. Annualized at 50 weeks that's $28,975 cash. That includes food though. F me.

Oh, when the youngest turns 2 we'll be at $512 a week combined, annualized at 50 weeks it's $25,600.

Anyone else paying this much?

Would you ballpark what your wife brings home? Because for my wife and me the money difference would have had to have been pretty large for us to put the kids in daycare (we didn't). I'm talking about if it cost $25k, she'd have had to have brought home at least $65k to make it worthwhile.

why 65k? I know theres tax benefits/credits etc with a single income but 40k worth?

$40k is just a number I threw out there. The premise is that the money would have to be enough that my wife would be ok missing not being there with the kids all day, having to get the kids up each morning, missing big milestones like potty training, etc. The wife definitely wanted to be a stay at home mom.

gotcha. I want my wife to be a sahm but she just doesnt wanna. She only makes around 35k and our daycare is 10k but she also gets free family healthcare and a kick ### pension (yeah shes a city worker). I think we can swing it if she quit but she has no desire to.

 

[skol asylum]

$868 month for 4 yr old full time daycare

$175 month for same 4 yr old for extra math and phonics

$293 month for 9 yr old before and after school program at the school. Additional $30 a day during winter spring and summer all day breaks

Thankfully the 4 yr old will be starting Kindergarten in July and giving us a nice raise.

 

[shadyridr]

July?

 

[James Daulton]

I'm currently paying $305 a week for my 14 month old. My wife is due with baby #2 in April, so in mid-July we plan to have 2 in daycare at the same place. We will get a 10% discount on the older child so that puts us at $274.50 per week for the older child and $305 per week for the younger child for a total of $579.50 a week. Annualized at 50 weeks that's $28,975 cash. That includes food though. F me.

Oh, when the youngest turns 2 we'll be at $512 a week combined, annualized at 50 weeks it's $25,600.

Anyone else paying this much?

Would you ballpark what your wife brings home? Because for my wife and me the money difference would have had to have been pretty large for us to put the kids in daycare (we didn't). I'm talking about if it cost $25k, she'd have had to have brought home at least $65k to make it worthwhile.

why 65k? I know theres tax benefits/credits etc with a single income but 40k worth?

$40k is just a number I threw out there. The premise is that the money would have to be enough that my wife would be ok missing not being there with the kids all day, having to get the kids up each morning, missing big milestones like potty training, etc. The wife definitely wanted to be a stay at home mom.

gotcha. I want my wife to be a sahm but she just doesnt wanna. She only makes around 35k and our daycare is 10k but she also gets free family healthcare and a kick ### pension (yeah shes a city worker). I think we can swing it if she quit but she has no desire to.

Yea, I'd venture that most of the decision revolves around what the wife wants. Plus the benefits thing is huge too.

 

[belljr]

This was the biggest expense that felt like a super raise when my daughter moved to just after school care we added like 5k a year

 

[saintfool]

I'm currently paying $305 a week for my 14 month old. My wife is due with baby #2 in April, so in mid-July we plan to have 2 in daycare at the same place. We will get a 10% discount on the older child so that puts us at $274.50 per week for the older child and $305 per week for the younger child for a total of $579.50 a week. Annualized at 50 weeks that's $28,975 cash. That includes food though. F me.

Oh, when the youngest turns 2 we'll be at $512 a week combined, annualized at 50 weeks it's $25,600.

Anyone else paying this much?

You should look into a nanny share at that rate. Sheesh.

 

[saintfool]

$180/week for my almost 4 year old son. Full-time care, with meals and snacks, from 745a-530p weekdays. It's walking distance for his mom and about 5 mins from my place. For Chicago and under these circumstances? It's a good deal.

 

[⚡DEADHEAD⚡]

$1,300/month for my 3 year old, 8:00 to 5:30. No lunch.

$1,200/month for my 10 month old (he starts in a month). 8:00 to 5:00, Monday through Thursday (grandma has him on Fridays).

$30k/year.

F'n sucks.

 

[Ghoti]

$200/week with lunch. My youngest goes to kindergarten in the fall, and I cannot friggin wait. That will probably be the biggest single payraise of my life.

 

[BigJohn]

We have 3 kids. 3 - 7 yo. We have been blessed, in that, we have always had in home daycare by a relative. My aunt watched the kids for awhile, and now, my sister does. We have paid anywhere from $120-$160 per week. When my daughter was born, we visited one daycare. My wife and I both came out crying. I know it's common for most people, but we just couldn't imagine putting any of our kids in a place like that. We both grew up with parents at home, so we never went to daycare ourselves.