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SitterRate: Babysitter Pay

Know what to pay your babysitter.

Coming soonNot yet released in app stores

SitterRate: Babysitter Pay is in development and has not been released yet. Its website and store listing will be linked here as soon as they are live.

Overview

SitterRate is an iPhone app for families who pay a babysitter or nanny. It shows published U.S. babysitting rate benchmarks with their sources, calculates exactly what you owe for a session, and keeps a simple record of what you've paid.

A session accounts for start and end times, the hourly rate, extra children, bonuses, reimbursed expenses and an optional tip, and any rounding or minimum hours are always shown rather than applied silently. Overnight sessions, nanny pay estimates and a live session timer are part of SitterRate Pro, a one-time purchase.

Who it’s for
Parents and families who hire babysitters or nannies.
The problem it solves
It's hard to know what a fair babysitting rate is, and a total that involves a late finish, a tip, an extra child or reimbursed expenses is easy to get wrong at the door.

Key capabilities

  • Rate Guide: published U.S. babysitting benchmarks, with the source and date shown for every figure
  • Babysitting pay with extra-child adjustments, bonuses, reimbursed expenses, tips, rounding and minimum hours
  • Sessions that cross midnight or a daylight-saving change counted in real hours
  • Saved sitters and a payment history with paid and unpaid status
  • Overnight sessions, nanny gross pay with overtime and a live session timer with SitterRate Pro
  • No account, analytics, tracking or ads; records stay on your iPhone

Screenshots

  • Rate Guide showing a typical U.S. babysitting rate of $20 to $26 an hour, with each source and date listed
  • Calculator: 6:15 PM to 11:40 PM at $22 an hour with a $15 tip totals $134.17
  • An overnight session itemized into evening, overnight and morning periods

SitterRate is for estimates and recordkeeping. Rate benchmarks are informational and nanny figures are gross-pay estimates only; it does not provide payroll, tax, employment or legal advice.

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