Multiple children, long hours and baby sitters hired to work on holidays will increase the cost. It's not recommended to ask baby sitters to perform additional duties, such as cleaning the house. BabySitters.com[1] recommend adding a tip to the regular hourly pay to encourage the sitter to...
Lynn Perkins, chief executive officer of UrbanSitter, told TODAY that a swirl of factors contributed to the significant increase in child care costs. (For context, babysitting rates rose just 3.9% from 2019 to 2020.) She said the overalllabor shortageis having an impact, as is the transition...