Originally Posted by Cat Herder:
Can you add up your vacation days, multiply them by your daily rate, divide that by 52, then add that amount to your weekly rate and still be competitive for your area?
Ex. 25 days x $27 per day = $675/52 weeks = $12.99 per week. Round up to $15 per week for budgeting ease and offer "unpaid" vacations. 
Old rate $135, new rate with "unpaid" vacations = $150 per week.
If so, offering "unpaid" vacation for marketing is a breeze.
I might be a little high if I did this. One parent is paying about this rate now. They were one of my last new clients and I raise my rate with new incoming clients (it's been a year now). It also so happens that they were comparing me with a center in the area that charges double what I do. So I looked good. It's also a distant relative and they wanted their child with someone they knew.
Thanks