Originally Posted by nannyde:
I don't take state paid. The salary in Iowa SUCKS. It's like 120 for an infant. My lowest rate is 140 for the early departure kids.
So your infants are at about 104 a week and the preK kids are at 99 a week. If they are fifty hour weeks that's about two dollars an hour.
What is the going rate at your centers? I think I was at two dollars an hour about ten years ago or so. I couldn't stay in business with the two dollar an hour... it's too expensive to live here and make a profit at that.
Is the cost of living really low where you live?
I used to take state children about 5 yrs. ago, I only made $14.50 a day for a 9 1/2 hr. day!!! I used to charge $25.00 a day. It is illegal, from what I am told to charge the family any extra money to make up the difference!! I quit doing it once they left for school!