Talking of nursery fees...

[Petrus]

The nursery gave me my invioce for the remainder of this month and next month full time....you'll never guess how much it was...:yeahright:













































£928.50 :faint: :cry: :faint: :shock: :faint: was my face when i saw that!!!! :shock:

[ms sweetcheeks]

I'd expect to pay that for 1 month tbh.

Fecking shocking isn't it:faint:

[Angie]

Wow, I hope you have a well paid job Petrus :shock:

Although, I'm starting DS 2 sessions a week in a few months and it would cost over £1,000 per month full time.

[Peridot]

I'd expect to pay that for 1 month tbh.

Fecking shocking isn't it:faint:

same here, its about £70 a day here - its a scary amount, especially considering nursery nurses don't make anywhere near that amount!!

[Adelelee]

:faint::faint::faint::faint:

[RealGoneKid]

Scary isn't it?

Our nursery is "cheap" at £550 pcm full time but it is still a huge chunk out of my salary

[Woodstock]

Our nursery will be £35 a day and I think thats a lot, so :shock: :faint: at £70!!!!

[RedTiger]

:faint: So glad I have my Mum to do my childcare!

[bluekat]

Feck me ... I would :faint:

Lexie's is £525 for part time but it's "only" £775 (approx) for full time.

I'm in the wrong job!

BKx

[The New Girl]

I know exactly how you feel I am currently paying £900 a month for the two part time and it is crippling us!!!

[BJMac]

about £70 a day here

:faint: :shock: :faint:

BLOODY HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See this is why I'm a SAHM - I could NEVER afford to put 2 children in nursery, even at Northern prices :happyno: .

[Cherrypie]

Phew. I'm glad I'm a SAHM and don't have to face those costs each month.
It is worth to note though that on and hourly basis, childcare costs are still under a fiver per hour. I'm guessing that those who employ cleaners play them a higher hourly rate than that. What's more precious - your child or your laundry?!

[Timothy's Mum]

T's full time monthly fee is £850 which means absolutely no savings in this household. We are working to eat!

[racqy-rooster]

Flaming hell, I would be more or less working just to put Ellis to a child minder :no:

So glad mil helps out

[jamsplat]

One thing I love about living in Norway, full time nursery place (06.45 to 16.15 5 days a week), cost to parents 2,500 NOK or ~£210 a month :ellie:

[Woodstock]

It is worth to note though that on and hourly basis, childcare costs are still under a fiver per hour. I'm guessing that those who employ cleaners play them a higher hourly rate than that. What's more precious - your child or your laundry?!

The difference is of course that you only have a cleaner for a few hours a month so you cant compare the two like for like.

The UK is acknowledged to have the highest childcare cost in Europe though so it is particularly high in this country (I am just glad I dont live in London :faint: ).

[Adelelee]

It is worth to note though that on and hourly basis, childcare costs are still under a fiver per hour. I'm guessing that those who employ cleaners play them a higher hourly rate than that. What's more precious - your child or your laundry?!

good point!!

[Blonde Girl]

That sounds about right to me for full time - fecking expensive though :-(

As for 70 quid a day :shock: :shock: Even in Centralish London we only :rolleyes: paid £45 quid a day.

[Mrs B]

It is worth to note though that on and hourly basis, childcare costs are still under a fiver per hour. I'm guessing that those who employ cleaners play them a higher hourly rate than that. What's more precious - your child or your laundry?!

I have this ongoing arguement with my mum, as she pays her cleaner £10 an hour but reckons I can get a babysitter for a couple of quid an hour as "when he's asleep they don't actually have to do anything".:loco:

[Mrs Chu]

Will never moan at my nursery bill again.

DD goes 2 mornings and 1 afternoon a week which totals £155 a month.

I only work part time though so obviously it still takes a large chuck of my wage.

If we ever did have another LO then at least DD1 would be in mainly funded nursery/school by then so it wouldnt sting us too much.

[~Twiggy~]

With the grant and the top up fees I pay, it comes to £141 a month. That is three half days and homecooked lunch included. I'm happy, he's happy and he is making progress. :smile:

[Peridot]

:faint: :shock: :faint:

BLOODY HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See this is why I'm a SAHM - I could NEVER afford to put 2 children in nursery, even at Northern prices :happyno: .

I know & I don't think the salaries are particularly different in the north/south divide anymore!

£70 a day is a lot more than £5 an hour for me Cherrypie!
I am VERY lucky that my mum has Thomas 2 mornings a week and my DH is able to work from home 2 afternoons a week!

[Libra]

I'm in a fortunate enough position to be a SAHM cause if I went back to work, I doubt i'd earn that much part time.

It's shocking isn't it?!

[jellybean]

OMG! there about £30 a day around here and i thought that was a lot. So glad iv got mum to do Childcare or there would be no point going to work!

[Firefly]

I work in a nursery, and it's incredibly expensive. If I were to go back to work after baby's born, and put my child into the nursery, I'd be paying them so I could work!

I'm relatively highly paid for a nursery nurse, and I get £6.25 an hour. We don't get paid for time off sick, and I don't know of any nurseries that do. Basically, if you want to make money, open your own nursery!!!

[elledj]

My nursery is £30-35 per day depending on the age of the child. It's a manageable cost at the moment with just Jake in 3 days a week but don't know how I'm going to cope when I have two in...I figure it'll be about £785 a month!:shock: F/T would be over £1200.

I think there is some kind of partial funding for kids from age three - does anyone know about this and how it works?

[elledj]

I work in a nursery, and it's incredibly expensive. If I were to go back to work after baby's born, and put my child into the nursery, I'd be paying them so I could work!

I'm relatively highly paid for a nursery nurse, and I get £6.25 an hour. We don't get paid for time off sick, and I don't know of any nurseries that do. Basically, if you want to make money, open your own nursery!!!

I'm pretty shocked that you don't get paid sick time!! :no: Surely they shouldn't be encouraging nursery nurses to come into work when they are not well...

To be fair, if they need one nurse for three kids as they do for under twos I can't imagine the nurseries make much money at all by the time they pay employers NI, rent, electricity etc.

[Firefly]

They seem to do all right out of it - Every nursery owner I've worked for has had an enourmous house and brand new, top-of-the-range cars. I can only assume that they're making a fair whack from it. The nursery I work at charge around £1k for a months full-time per child, and if you work out they're paying most staff under £6 an hour, for a 40 hour week, they're spending £1040 on staff cost (not including employers NI, etc), but getting in three times that, just for the under twos. Obviously there are other costs, but the pre-school (age 3 and up) is 8 kids to every staff member, so they're making £8K a month to every £1k spent on a staff member.

Also, don't forget that nurseries charge parents when their child is off sick, too.

Can you tell I'm dissilusioned with working in childcare :-(

[Amelya]

Our nursery owner works in the nursery with the other staff and until recently lived in a flat above. Definitely no flash car either.

Mind you our costs are £28 per child per day so according to this thread pretty cheap. And the staff turnover is very low so I can only imagine its a pretty good place to work

[ms sweetcheeks]

It is worth to note though that on and hourly basis, childcare costs are still under a fiver per hour. I'm guessing that those who employ cleaners play them a higher hourly rate than that. What's more precious - your child or your laundry?!

Where I live it's £70 for 1 day in a nursery= which is £7 per hour if you have the child there 10 hours!
I pay my cleaner £7 per hour as well.

And of course my cleaning and my child are equally precious:nod: :lol:

[Jack_the_Cat]

Wow - £70 a day :faint:.

I'm having tears about paying £700 / month. Seems immoral that they can charge these kind of fees, especially when their workers are so (relatively) poorly paid.

[Shoppie]

Yep, that's about what we pay per month too :no: :no: :no:

[ms sweetcheeks]

OMG, just worked out that 4 weeks in nursery full time here would cost me £1400.
And that's not even a moth, just 20 days!:faint:

[Shoppie]

I pay my cleaner £7 per hour as well.

Where did you find your cleaner?? I would expect to pay a good £3 per hour more than that!

[Jack_the_Cat]

o/t but Shoppie, how cute is your avatar?! :lurve:

[ms sweetcheeks]

I was so lucky Shoppie.
I met this wonderful mum through NCT shortly after having T, and one day we got chatting, and I mentioned I was desperate for a cleaner.
She said she culd ask hers, if she was free to clean for me too.
So on the spot, she called her and she said yes.
I asked my friend how much she paid her and she said £6.50 per hour.
But the cleaner asked for £7 (payrise time) and I agreed, and then my friend raised it to £7 as well.

She is an eldery lady (55-60 perhaps) and russian and SO lovely, and LOVES Theo and cleans very good, and I can't fault her.

[Peridot]

OMG, just worked out that 4 weeks in nursery full time here would cost me £1400.
And that's not even a moth, just 20 days!:faint:

Generally (from what I've seen) they make it more cost effective to use the nursery 5 days a week. In fact, the one nearest to us is more expensive for 4 days a week (£1200) a month than it is for 5 days a week (£1100) don't know why :puzzled: & if it's only 2 or 3 days a week then it's £70 a day or £600 a month for 2 days a week, for 9 hour days!

I don't understand why it is so much more expensive in London & it's surrounding county's! Not fair!

[Woodstock]

Yes, I have noticed that too gemgal. They have a session or daily rate, but also a "full time" cost per month which lowers the daily rate quite significantly. Still, that wont convince me to go full time :happyno:

Mine will be charged monthly for how many days he has been there in that calendar month, so will only know approximately and wont be the same each month. Luckily, we wont have to pay for bank holidays though.

[Princess Fiona]

and people wondered why i coudn't afford to go back to work :doh:

That is shocking :faint:

[Firefly]

Our nursery owner works in the nursery with the other staff and until recently lived in a flat above. Definitely no flash car either.

Mind you our costs are £28 per child per day so according to this thread pretty cheap. And the staff turnover is very low so I can only imagine its a pretty good place to work

Sounds like a lovely nursery :thumb: If more were like that, I might be a bit less disilussioned with working in childcare :-(

[suemarie]

The nursery that my LO will be going to in about 4 months costs £141 per week full time, although I am thinking of only putting her in there for maybe 3 days max & then the remainder she would be with family.
It is outrageous though how much these places charge.

[popinjay1]

I pay nearly £400 a month for Claire to go 2 full days a week. Its only temporary until she gets a place at pre-school but we needed to put her in as she wasnt getting enough stimulation with my MIL.

[suemarie]

That is one of the reasons I want Lucy to go to a nursery as I dont think she would get much stimulation from my mum or MIL. As they just seem to feed her & then put her to bed even if she still wants to play.

[Velvet Chain]

I had a quote for one near me a few years back and full time it would have cost ------- £1395 a month.

Needless to say I didn't send him to nursery!

VC

[shortyhmm]

:faint: :faint: :faint:

Ours would be £150/wk full time, so ave £650/mth!

[calgal]

I had a quote for one near me a few years back and full time it would have cost ------- £1395 a month.

:faint: