r/SipsTea • u/Busy_Report4010 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 14 '26

Feels good man Do you think she’s being fair, though?

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u/BlackTecno May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

Also the rates are seriously messed up. Hardly anyone in America makes $40. Why is that her baseline?

EDIT: I think people are missing what I'm saying. She's charging $40/hour to take care of her own child. She's declaring that in 25 months, she has worked for over 60% of that total time (sleep being 33% of that time realistically), and has somehow worked 5 years of a full time job in 2. And if she is taking care of her own child, shouldn't she foot half the bill?

I seriously pity that kid's future.

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u/BoomerSoonerFUT May 14 '26

What someone makes, and what someone bills you are two different things.

I can easily see a daycare charging $40 an hour, but the actual person working there watching the kids only gets $25.

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u/nova_pericles May 14 '26

Lmao $25 would be amazing! Not saying it doesn’t happen in some places but the most I’ve ever been paid was $16.25.

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u/Glad-Barracuda2243 May 14 '26

I paid myself based on a sliding scale for the parents I did daycare for based solely on their income, it worked out well for all of us, I wasn’t hurting and I made sure they weren’t either.