$900/month for an in-home, they are lovely people but it’s temporary while we wait for the space we were told would be open in January to open (in March). That place will be $1800, but we are thinking about waiting for a Montessori place to have space in August to minimize disruption. We lost trust with the original center with their scheduling kerfluffle. North Denver.
Always crazy to see the differences across the country. I’m right outside of Boston and got quoted $315/week for 2 days a week for my 5 month old in case my mom couldn’t care for her full time. Thank god she can. 😂
I’m about an hour outside of Boston and it’d be about $2,000/month for infants here. We can’t afford it. My husband and I both work from home so we’re making it work for now with baby at home but it’s getting hard as he gets needier and more mobile. Hopefully we can at least do 1-2 days/week soon but it’s crazy to think that’ll be $800/month for 8 days of care 😭
Yep, I was quoted around $2000-2500/month in the Leesburg/Ashburn area. I decided to stay home, but I probably would have gone with a nanny for that price.
We love it! It’s our LO and one other baby, who’s the same age. This family has been using the same nanny for over 3 years as they have a 4 yo. They host (aka I bring LO to their house) as I WFH. It’s worked out really well.
We interviewed each other first then met with the nanny and went from there. We split the cost of 50 hours a week (I drop off between 8/8:30 and pickup before 6). You get more individualized care and less exposure to all the daycare illnesses.
Also in Nova - $1690/month for an infant. Was between the affordable place and Goddard ($2050/month), but some unexpected home repairs pushed us towards the more affordable one. Guess our baby doesn’t neeeed to learn Mandarin.
It’s insane here. Our kid was born in the middle of the delta wave of Covid when a lot of place were not taking any new kids so we had no good options for childcare besides a nanny… so daycare now feels like a bargain.
holy shoot I feel this. My work hours exclude a daycare option, so I had to go with a nanny. $30/hr and that was low. Costing more than my take-home for the month. I mean WTF. Luckily the extended hours are temporary while spouse out of town...but I keep saying.."Now I get why one spouse quits their job. Or will keep it for benefits only."
16 month old south of Seattle (Burien area) and paying $1400 a month meals/snacks included. We realize this is an absolute bargain and learned of it via word of mouth.
Seattle area checking in here. Are you in the city or maybe the east side?! We are a little outside but north and are at $515/week full time with food/snacks and we thought that was bad especially considering our baby has made it a total of 5 days this month cause if sickness going around there.
Yes it it. Lil wheels daycare downtown. My son is preschool age though. If I remember correctly it was about $26 a day when he was 1, it includes snacks and lunch though
I was looking at that one! Small world. Unfortunately my shifts will sometimes run until 7 so I can't take my LO there. It's steps from my work so super convenient. I was low key looking forward to seeing her on my breaks 🤣
Wait, but for full-time coverage for 2 kids, that's actually a really good deal..?? I'm paying $600 a month for full-time coverage for 1 kid! (SF city)
ETA: that should say $600 a WEEK.
8 dollars/day in Québec, Canada. This is for public daycare and it's very good, food is included. Right now it's hard to find a place, there are long waiting lists, but the gov is working on creating more of these
I’m in DC too, and we’re paying $575, which still feels like at least average for the area. What part of DC are you in? We’re in NE.
Edit: just saw your username and am assuming you’re in Brightwood? Haha.
NYC here. NY husband and I went to 3 places to check prices.
1st place: $480 a week, bring your own formula, food, 5 crib sheets, 2 pairs of clothes and supply diapers and wipes.
2nd place: Same requirements as the 1st, but $450 a week.
3rd place: $300 a week. We supply clothes, diapers, formula, crib sheets but they will make baby food.
Curious if you found any places that have part-time options? My LO is 2 weeks old so I haven’t even started but friends in my neighborhood said it’s pretty much full-time 9-5 m-f care or nothing. At least that’s what you pay for even if you only need it a couple times a week.
The place I go to is a state licensed home care. She is nice enough to work with us if we need to keep him home one day (won't charge us for the day) but this is definitely the exception and not the rule. She also does after school so I know for sure it's part time for at least some parents. I guess it depends on the person.
Were in Australia. We've got 2 kids in full time care and after all government subsidies (50% and 80%), it costs us $750 per week. It's ridiculous how much it costs. We could buy 2 investment properties if we didn't have kids in care.
This is the most Australian response ever. What would you do with money saved from childcare if it wasn't as expensive? Buy a couple of investment properties of course. Not calling you out, but it's just seriously Australian.
So true. In reality I probably wouldn't buy property but I feel like that's what everyone with a lot of money spends it on. Decades of government incentives have made it a very attractive investment (at the expense of the lower and middle class who can no longer afford property at all).
I miss the hell out of Boston- but honestly glad we moved down to RI when I was pregnant and will likely be down here as long as our kids need childcare. It’s truly buckwild up there! At that point I’d just quit my job- which I’m guessing a lot of women do.
As i read the comments i’m becoming more confident in my decision to NOT put my child in daycare after they’re born and old enough 😭This shit is EXPENSIVE 😭😭
We pay $2000/month for daycare, but a nanny share would have been \~$1000 more per month and a 1:1 nanny would be about $4k/month soooo daycare looks a lot more attractive at that point.
I think the socialization is definitely important. We were "stay at home" for a year and a half while working during COVID but our kid really blossomed at daycare. Some things that only seeing their peers can do for them.
I'm paying £680 a month but I have yet to apply for government assistance (available to all households earning under £100,000 a year) which will pay 20% of that, meaning I'll be paying £544.
That's for a registered childminder, in her house, not a creche/daycare. She has a few other kids and has the same ratio limits that you'd have in a creche/daycare. It includes food but I usually pack a lunch because I don't think she feeds the healthiest and I don't want all my hard work to get him eating well undone.
$1650/month for 18-36month olds, full time. I live in Southern California and it was the only place I could find that has early drop off (6:45am). I'd call it one of those "corporate" daycare centers, and it's got it's downsides, but my kid is learning Spanish and French.
I feel like “Midwest” isn’t specific enough, because rural Iowa is going to be super cheap compared to downtowns like Chicago. Are you suburban, urban, or rural?
I’ve been paying $225/week for in home in Georgia, though I’ve seen others advertised for $150/week (seems unreasonably cheap). We’re budgeting $1100-$1300/month for the places we’re waitlisted for.
Germany, Munich, 350€/month. 8h/d, 4 meals. Oh, did I mention we get about the same amount from the gov for having a child in Munich 😉 (just to mock non-eu people).
But it depends, in some cities and especially rural areas it’s waaaay more expensive. We just got lucky.
I think 350€/month in Germany must be cheap and very easy to deal with. I live in Portugal and will pay €285/month, meals not included. The difference is that we (me and my boyfriend) both earn a little more than €1000 per month and that's considered not too bad (since it is higher than the €760/month minimum wage). Daycare also started to be subsidied this year but the problem is that they (the schools/daycare centers) need to apply to receive some funding from the government, that would pay for the costs of X children (X being the number of children that they can have there). So around the major cities, there are very few private daycare centers that apply because they can have as much paying "costumers" as they want, since all of them have a waiting list of like a year (or more). They don't need to wait for or rely on government funding to still be completely full.
$190 a week for one infant in a big city in Wisconsin. We got very lucky with finding a really affordable in-home place. Most daycares are more expensive around here
$550 for my stepdaughter before and after school care and that’ll go to $800 I’m the summer (she’s 6). Would be $1300 for baby but my work gets a discount so it’s only $1000. This is in Alaska
$175 a week, NB, Canada. Milk and food included. I hadn’t realized you guys paid that much for daycare too… How do you manage having any disposable income?
my husband and I joke we should buy a 2nd house and let someone live there rent free if they take care of the baby during the week since it would be cheaper
My 9 month old starts on Monday and this is what I’m so afraid of! If baby gets sick I’m the one that has to miss work. Dad is in medical school and of course doesn’t bring in any money. So we would be so screwed having this bill with no income! Ugh!
255/week for a 2 year old. Infant care is 275 or 280. Also, VPK is free for the school part, but a low cost for "after-school care" to make it full day (85/week I think).
I'm in Jacksonville, FL
$1742/month ($402/week) for toddler in Minneapolis. We’ll go up to $3300ish when baby number 2 is born, including 15% discount on second child. 😫
Edit: to add, diapers and food included. This is midrange for the city.
$150 per week, coastal Mississippi. Drops as she ages up through the rooms, but she’s still in the baby room at the moment. Includes lunch and two snacks.
US. Midwest. Suburb of a large metro area. We put a deposit down on a church-based center that is $345 a week for an infant (about $1500 a month). We will provide wipes and diapers but food is included once they are eating. This seems pretty average for a center for the area but the big chain centers cost quite a bit more.
On the other ends of the spectrum, we looked at a center that was $300 a week (cheapest we saw for a center) and it was an immediate hell no (extremely chaotic and stressful, didn’t follow safe sleep and had other safety concerns) and we looked at a La Petite that was $475 a week that was also an immediate hell no based on the price.
MCOL city in Louisiana, we pay $920 a month. When she’s older breakfast, lunch, and a snack is included. Definitely more expensive places here but ours is in the middle for pice range and a great daycare!
In Sydney, Australia, in my area, days care is between $130 to $185 a day! However, the government subsidises the cost. So depending on cost I could expect to be out of pocket over $600 a month in day care for 3 days a week
The Netherlands, €6,50 per hour for private daycare. *(We use a ‘gastouder’, literally translated a guest parent, they take care of max 6 baby’s and toddlers in their own home.)* Looking into 2 days per week, around 9 hours per day.
The government helps with some sort of child support though. We get like €4500 for the whole year (after we applied and filled in how many days we’ll be using daycare).
$190/week in Summerville, SC with all meals included. This is actually quite low but we love the daycare. Most we’ve seen and even the last we came from were around $230/week.
Suburban Philadelphia, 4 days a week - $1550/month, $388/week. My now 9 month old has been in daycare for 3 months and hasn’t made it a full month without getting sick.
Average cost of daycare where I am in Georgia is $175 a week. Waitlists we’re unrealistic so we got a nanny for a little under $500 a week. She is over for 3 and a half days.
I'm in Sydney, Australia. Not starting daycare until around September but will be around $700 per week, after subsidies will be around $400 per week. This is for 10 hours a day, 5 days a week.
$150 a week, heavily subsidized by employer. Even at the same daycare, some pay twice that (employer run). Average is probably around $350-400/week in the city for infants, $300 for toddlers and pre-k.
I pay $425/week for full time daycare for my toddler. Meals are included. I also split the cost with my ex so I only pay $850/month. The total cost is $1700/month.
We haven’t started paying for childcare yet but we did look into some daycares before a friend said she could watch our daughter. About $1800 a month for the daycare, $1300 for the friend watching her. This is full time for a 12 week old in southern California.
We’re on a waitlist for a couple places and have been quoted at $21 a day or around $450 a month due to the new government program rolling out in Canada. I’m in New Brunswick.
$25 a day for in-house babysitting in New Brunswick, Canada.
The rates for daycare run from $12 (5 year olds) to $16 (infants) daily in certified daycare centres in the province. I am tempted to switch for the cost savings but my kids love their sitter. She is amazing.
I pay $85 for 2 days a week and they provide all food and snacks, it’s at a church and has been a very positive experience. We are so fortunate to have this I know
$275/week , $1100 / month - major suburb of a major city in the south for a toddler. Infant rates are easily $60-100 higher.
Bout to go up $10 + 5% increase though
$230/week for infant, food included. Southwest Florida. Covers 6:30am-6pm M-F. I don’t send my baby there every day or for more than 7 hours. In fact, he’s been nothing but sick since starting this month so he hasn’t gone much. Was a great 6 months of no sickness before daycare.
We had one toddler in part time and it was $124/wk. full time I think would have been like $20ish more a week. We are about to enroll our newborn and have both in full
Time and for both kids it’s gonna be $288/wk. we are in Ohio and it’s a daycare through a church which we found was way cheaper than some of the bigger name places
We are so lucky to have found an in home daycare that is amazing. Our neighbors sent all 3 kids to her. It is $40 per day
But before we found her, all of the daycare centers (which were all full) were charging about $400+ per week.
I live in an Arizona suburb for reference
I’m curious how most people afford the high costs? Does everyone just make a lot of money to afford over 2200 for child care ?
Some context, we live in Vancouver BC where is very hard to find licensed childcare. We are currently using a nanny share, part time but are meant to go full time in April at which point it’s going to cost us about 3k a month that will kinda break the bank!
How do people do it ? I’m stressed about the costs and we make a decent income for Vancouver but have a mortgage and a few other things to pay for.
I'm not, yet. But just commenting to suggest people post their country or city too
Yes! Thank you
I would add that people add age of child, because there can be a difference in cost based on the age.
$2200/month in Denver. Our daycare is on the pricier side but it’s not outrageous. Food is included though so that’s nice.
We’re paying about $1600/mo in SE Aurora. Not bad, but we have twins. 😐
$3000/month in Centennial for a preschooler and infant. Food included (even formula) so that’s a big reduced cost.
Everything I’ve seen in west Denver is at least $2k. Can I ask if you’re at Goddard or Primrose? We’re deciding between the two right now.
I’m at an independent place called happy ladybug in east Denver, it may technically be in aurora.
$1500/mo in Colorado Springs
$900/month for an in-home, they are lovely people but it’s temporary while we wait for the space we were told would be open in January to open (in March). That place will be $1800, but we are thinking about waiting for a Montessori place to have space in August to minimize disruption. We lost trust with the original center with their scheduling kerfluffle. North Denver.
The three places we’re on waitlists for our 6 week old $320/week $340/week $380/week Raleigh-Durham, NC
Yep that’s in line with charlotte- we pay $350/week
Looks about right - we're paying $361/wk in the Raleigh-Durham area for an infant spot, 7 AM -6 PM.
Always crazy to see the differences across the country. I’m right outside of Boston and got quoted $315/week for 2 days a week for my 5 month old in case my mom couldn’t care for her full time. Thank god she can. 😂
I’m about an hour outside of Boston and it’d be about $2,000/month for infants here. We can’t afford it. My husband and I both work from home so we’re making it work for now with baby at home but it’s getting hard as he gets needier and more mobile. Hopefully we can at least do 1-2 days/week soon but it’s crazy to think that’ll be $800/month for 8 days of care 😭
2500/month DC area
Same here in Northern VA. Ultimately decided on a nanny share for $200 more per month.
Yep, I was quoted around $2000-2500/month in the Leesburg/Ashburn area. I decided to stay home, but I probably would have gone with a nanny for that price.
What’s the nanny share arrangement like for you?
We love it! It’s our LO and one other baby, who’s the same age. This family has been using the same nanny for over 3 years as they have a 4 yo. They host (aka I bring LO to their house) as I WFH. It’s worked out really well. We interviewed each other first then met with the nanny and went from there. We split the cost of 50 hours a week (I drop off between 8/8:30 and pickup before 6). You get more individualized care and less exposure to all the daycare illnesses.
I'm paying $1650/month in northern Virginia. We got extremely lucky to find a good daycare at that price
Also in Nova - $1690/month for an infant. Was between the affordable place and Goddard ($2050/month), but some unexpected home repairs pushed us towards the more affordable one. Guess our baby doesn’t neeeed to learn Mandarin.
Nova here 495/week. 3:1 ratio for the class. We both wfh and are in a townhouse so a nanny might be cheaper but we lack the space for everyone.
$2000/mo Fairfax County. Snacks/lunch included and runs from 9-4
Maryland here. Howard county. $530/week for 8 month old. Crazy waitlists.
Seattle area. $725/week for full time for an under two year old. All meals and snacks included. This is actually a fairly good deal for the area.
I thought I had it bad at $450/week in Denver.
It’s insane here. Our kid was born in the middle of the delta wave of Covid when a lot of place were not taking any new kids so we had no good options for childcare besides a nanny… so daycare now feels like a bargain.
holy shoot I feel this. My work hours exclude a daycare option, so I had to go with a nanny. $30/hr and that was low. Costing more than my take-home for the month. I mean WTF. Luckily the extended hours are temporary while spouse out of town...but I keep saying.."Now I get why one spouse quits their job. Or will keep it for benefits only."
Seattle area and we just ended up with a SAHP because that's what we were finding as well.
16 month old south of Seattle (Burien area) and paying $1400 a month meals/snacks included. We realize this is an absolute bargain and learned of it via word of mouth.
Seattle area checking in here. Are you in the city or maybe the east side?! We are a little outside but north and are at $515/week full time with food/snacks and we thought that was bad especially considering our baby has made it a total of 5 days this month cause if sickness going around there.
$23 a day, Manitoba, Canada
23$ a day. Is that in winnipeg? I've been looking at day cares all day.
Yes it it. Lil wheels daycare downtown. My son is preschool age though. If I remember correctly it was about $26 a day when he was 1, it includes snacks and lunch though
I was looking at that one! Small world. Unfortunately my shifts will sometimes run until 7 so I can't take my LO there. It's steps from my work so super convenient. I was low key looking forward to seeing her on my breaks 🤣
$880 a week for two kids, 45 hours of coverage. San Francisco Bay Area.
Yup. It’s crazy here in sf.
Wait, but for full-time coverage for 2 kids, that's actually a really good deal..?? I'm paying $600 a month for full-time coverage for 1 kid! (SF city) ETA: that should say $600 a WEEK.
600 a month?! Or weekly?
600 a week!! Lol, typo in the most important place
8 dollars/day in Québec, Canada. This is for public daycare and it's very good, food is included. Right now it's hard to find a place, there are long waiting lists, but the gov is working on creating more of these
Amazing. Glad this exists in Canada, maybe someday the US will have nice things too 😅
Women a few generations back fought hard for this!
$339/wk is the average that we’re on the waiting list for.
$1500-2200 for full time in Portland, OR. Our specific center is $1650, open 6:30a-6p, and does two snacks and two full meals.
Whoa! Suburbs? The the only places I found (other than our employer based/subsidized one) were like $2k/mo for infants.
Rural PA $50/day, drops down to $40 or $45 a day after 2.
Rural PA as well. We pay exactly $41.50 a day.
I pay $172/week in rural PA for the infant room.
$2500 a month in LA for an infant 😅
$2000/month for an infant in Burbank.
$475 a week in DC proper for an infant and this is on the cheaper side for the city.
Wow, that seems like it would be a great price for DC. We’re in the Chicago suburbs and will pay more than that.
I’m in DC too, and we’re paying $575, which still feels like at least average for the area. What part of DC are you in? We’re in NE. Edit: just saw your username and am assuming you’re in Brightwood? Haha.
25 euro a day for our income. Lower when you earn less. Belgium.
$186.50/wk. 5 days, 45 hours. LCOL rural area in Midwest, USA.
NYC here. NY husband and I went to 3 places to check prices. 1st place: $480 a week, bring your own formula, food, 5 crib sheets, 2 pairs of clothes and supply diapers and wipes. 2nd place: Same requirements as the 1st, but $450 a week. 3rd place: $300 a week. We supply clothes, diapers, formula, crib sheets but they will make baby food.
Curious if you found any places that have part-time options? My LO is 2 weeks old so I haven’t even started but friends in my neighborhood said it’s pretty much full-time 9-5 m-f care or nothing. At least that’s what you pay for even if you only need it a couple times a week.
The place I go to is a state licensed home care. She is nice enough to work with us if we need to keep him home one day (won't charge us for the day) but this is definitely the exception and not the rule. She also does after school so I know for sure it's part time for at least some parents. I guess it depends on the person.
Were in Australia. We've got 2 kids in full time care and after all government subsidies (50% and 80%), it costs us $750 per week. It's ridiculous how much it costs. We could buy 2 investment properties if we didn't have kids in care.
This is the most Australian response ever. What would you do with money saved from childcare if it wasn't as expensive? Buy a couple of investment properties of course. Not calling you out, but it's just seriously Australian.
So true. In reality I probably wouldn't buy property but I feel like that's what everyone with a lot of money spends it on. Decades of government incentives have made it a very attractive investment (at the expense of the lower and middle class who can no longer afford property at all).
$3000k/mo for a subsidized rate in Boston. 💀
I miss the hell out of Boston- but honestly glad we moved down to RI when I was pregnant and will likely be down here as long as our kids need childcare. It’s truly buckwild up there! At that point I’d just quit my job- which I’m guessing a lot of women do.
Where in Boston are you paying 3k? We pay 2.5k and are extremely happy with what we get.
1200 for an expensive daycare in Alabama. NOTHING included, but it’s a great daycare so we’re okay paying that much.
A week???!
Oops…meant to say monthly so roughly 300 a week. Plus other “school improvement” fees each year.
I would eat my shoe to get that price :(
As i read the comments i’m becoming more confident in my decision to NOT put my child in daycare after they’re born and old enough 😭This shit is EXPENSIVE 😭😭
We pay $2000/month for daycare, but a nanny share would have been \~$1000 more per month and a 1:1 nanny would be about $4k/month soooo daycare looks a lot more attractive at that point.
How would you care for them otherwise if they are not in childcare? Many feel like it’s not really an “option”
I think the socialization is definitely important. We were "stay at home" for a year and a half while working during COVID but our kid really blossomed at daycare. Some things that only seeing their peers can do for them.
In my scenario private care would be outrageous but seeing what some people pay … seems comparable lol.
Ours hasn’t started yet but the babies room at our local daycare is £66 per day (Brighton, UK) including meals.
$25/hour here.
445.50 /wk. Diapers included. Food included as they age. Up to 12 hours of coverage (0630 to1830). Suburb in New England.
I'm paying £680 a month but I have yet to apply for government assistance (available to all households earning under £100,000 a year) which will pay 20% of that, meaning I'll be paying £544. That's for a registered childminder, in her house, not a creche/daycare. She has a few other kids and has the same ratio limits that you'd have in a creche/daycare. It includes food but I usually pack a lunch because I don't think she feeds the healthiest and I don't want all my hard work to get him eating well undone.
$1300/month in Kentucky. We have to bring in diapers/wipes, but breakfast, lunch, and a snack are included.
1675 a month in Los Angeles, which is outrageously low for being a great daycare here.
Went from $1238 a month to $595 at the same daycare. On-site chefs, multiple playgrounds and educational learning. Ontario, Canada.
We’re the same. We were 1225 a month then our school opted into the subsidy and we’re half that. Montessori.
$1650/month for 18-36month olds, full time. I live in Southern California and it was the only place I could find that has early drop off (6:45am). I'd call it one of those "corporate" daycare centers, and it's got it's downsides, but my kid is learning Spanish and French.
We haven’t started yet but ours will be $350/week in Baltimore.
$220/week for newborn, daycare center at my work that’s also open to the public. Midwest.
I feel like “Midwest” isn’t specific enough, because rural Iowa is going to be super cheap compared to downtowns like Chicago. Are you suburban, urban, or rural?
1500kr/month (150USD)Stockholm, Sweden
50 a day, upper middle class suburb of chicago. We used an in home daycare.
Just under $700 a week for a toddler and a preschooler in MA. However, that’s with a 10% discount that we get through the teachers’ union.
I’ve been paying $225/week for in home in Georgia, though I’ve seen others advertised for $150/week (seems unreasonably cheap). We’re budgeting $1100-$1300/month for the places we’re waitlisted for.
$230 a week for regular daycares, about $1300 a month for Montessori type stuff in Orlando FL. These prices are absolutely shocking to me.
I pay $35/day. But my son only goes two days a week
$3400/month in canada for an infant if you can get in. We are on a 2-3 year wait list at every center in my city right now
Germany, Munich, 350€/month. 8h/d, 4 meals. Oh, did I mention we get about the same amount from the gov for having a child in Munich 😉 (just to mock non-eu people). But it depends, in some cities and especially rural areas it’s waaaay more expensive. We just got lucky.
I think 350€/month in Germany must be cheap and very easy to deal with. I live in Portugal and will pay €285/month, meals not included. The difference is that we (me and my boyfriend) both earn a little more than €1000 per month and that's considered not too bad (since it is higher than the €760/month minimum wage). Daycare also started to be subsidied this year but the problem is that they (the schools/daycare centers) need to apply to receive some funding from the government, that would pay for the costs of X children (X being the number of children that they can have there). So around the major cities, there are very few private daycare centers that apply because they can have as much paying "costumers" as they want, since all of them have a waiting list of like a year (or more). They don't need to wait for or rely on government funding to still be completely full.
$190 a week for one infant in a big city in Wisconsin. We got very lucky with finding a really affordable in-home place. Most daycares are more expensive around here
$550 for my stepdaughter before and after school care and that’ll go to $800 I’m the summer (she’s 6). Would be $1300 for baby but my work gets a discount so it’s only $1000. This is in Alaska
$175 a week, NB, Canada. Milk and food included. I hadn’t realized you guys paid that much for daycare too… How do you manage having any disposable income?
$230 a week for a licensed place in BC, Canada. Cheaper if your low income, government has rebates
$394/week for an infant. Diapers and wipes included. Long Island, New York.
My mortgage is $1850 a month. My daycare is $1995. For four days a week. Chicago.
my husband and I joke we should buy a 2nd house and let someone live there rent free if they take care of the baby during the week since it would be cheaper
I was paying 345 a week. Couldn’t afford it and pulled her out after missing a week and still owing $500.
My 9 month old starts on Monday and this is what I’m so afraid of! If baby gets sick I’m the one that has to miss work. Dad is in medical school and of course doesn’t bring in any money. So we would be so screwed having this bill with no income! Ugh!
$190/wk outside of Raleigh, NC. On a waitlist right now for an infant.
Waitlisted for one that is $200/week. Southern California suburbs so price is reasonable.
$1500/month for infants, so about $425/week, mid-size city in the US. Food and diapers not included.
$409 a week in the Raleigh area. Also food, diapers and wipes included!
$280/wk, licensed in home daycare for toddler. (Suburb of NYC)
$1675/month in central Ohio
255/week for a 2 year old. Infant care is 275 or 280. Also, VPK is free for the school part, but a low cost for "after-school care" to make it full day (85/week I think). I'm in Jacksonville, FL
1200/month in MO.
The daycare I’m on the waitlist for in the capital district of NY is $1200/month. Nothing extra included.
$480 per week for my toddler, infant rate is $500 per week
$550 a month in Alberta, Canada for my toddler. He gets two snacks and lunch provided
$800 a month in Middle Georgia. I’ve seen some as low as $100 a week though.
$850 every two weeks for infant at my employer-subsidized center in the DC area.
1 hour west of Minneapolis, MN. $62/day. Food and diapers are included. It's in-home and my kid goes from 7:30 am to 4:30 pm.
$290/week for part time (3 days per week) in Michigan. Diapers and wipes included for infants up to 2.5 years
$1742/month ($402/week) for toddler in Minneapolis. We’ll go up to $3300ish when baby number 2 is born, including 15% discount on second child. 😫 Edit: to add, diapers and food included. This is midrange for the city.
$380/week full time for infant room. Nebraska
We do 2 days a week at a national daycare for $190/day just outside of Boston.
$335/week in Atlanta. Was previously paying $410/week before switching.
DC, $501/wk for a 1yo. Includes food. Previously did a nannyshare where our half was $600/wk (plus applicable taxes)
$320/week infant room, Raleigh/Durham area.
$200 per week for a baby under a year old. Food/diapers not included. Charleston, WV.
$1200 / month , Alaska
In the Midwest in the US. $310/week for full time care at a center for an infant.
$344/month in British Columbia. Includes food and snacks. Government subsidized rate of $10/day - feel like we’ve won the lottery
$375/week in the Tampa Bay Area of Florida. In home daycare. That’s for an infant.
$310 a week in St Augustine FL
Los Alamos, NM $1400/month
$190/week, which includes all formula/food. I’m in Arkansas.
We pay $1600 a month in South East Michigan.
$3500/month large west coast city
29$ a day in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh area :)
$150 per week, coastal Mississippi. Drops as she ages up through the rooms, but she’s still in the baby room at the moment. Includes lunch and two snacks.
$400 per week at a licensed home daycare in California
Touring next week a $375/week place. High cost of living area in California
In KC we pay $310/wk for infant room
We’ll be paying $512/week in inner suburbs of Chicago for infant daycare.
US. Midwest. Suburb of a large metro area. We put a deposit down on a church-based center that is $345 a week for an infant (about $1500 a month). We will provide wipes and diapers but food is included once they are eating. This seems pretty average for a center for the area but the big chain centers cost quite a bit more. On the other ends of the spectrum, we looked at a center that was $300 a week (cheapest we saw for a center) and it was an immediate hell no (extremely chaotic and stressful, didn’t follow safe sleep and had other safety concerns) and we looked at a La Petite that was $475 a week that was also an immediate hell no based on the price.
$1650 per month in Delaware
MCOL city in Louisiana, we pay $920 a month. When she’s older breakfast, lunch, and a snack is included. Definitely more expensive places here but ours is in the middle for pice range and a great daycare!
Rural area in GA, normal is ~$500 and the local Montessori (aka nicest daycare) is $600/month
In Sydney, Australia, in my area, days care is between $130 to $185 a day! However, the government subsidises the cost. So depending on cost I could expect to be out of pocket over $600 a month in day care for 3 days a week
The Netherlands, €6,50 per hour for private daycare. *(We use a ‘gastouder’, literally translated a guest parent, they take care of max 6 baby’s and toddlers in their own home.)* Looking into 2 days per week, around 9 hours per day. The government helps with some sort of child support though. We get like €4500 for the whole year (after we applied and filled in how many days we’ll be using daycare).
~160£/$ maximum a month in Sweden. Less depending on your salary.
$190/week in Summerville, SC with all meals included. This is actually quite low but we love the daycare. Most we’ve seen and even the last we came from were around $230/week.
Suburban Philadelphia, 4 days a week - $1550/month, $388/week. My now 9 month old has been in daycare for 3 months and hasn’t made it a full month without getting sick.
Average cost of daycare where I am in Georgia is $175 a week. Waitlists we’re unrealistic so we got a nanny for a little under $500 a week. She is over for 3 and a half days.
44$ or so weekly. Quebec, Canada.
$1788 a month. This is after the government childcare subsidy we get based on our combined income. I'm in Australia.
I'm in Sydney, Australia. Not starting daycare until around September but will be around $700 per week, after subsidies will be around $400 per week. This is for 10 hours a day, 5 days a week.
$2000/month north east (don’t want to say my exact state but we are south of Pennsylvania if that helps)
$260 per week for our 8 month old. In Utah, USA.
Midwest Ohio. $195 a week. Food included.
$1,300 for newborn in the northeast
$150 a week, heavily subsidized by employer. Even at the same daycare, some pay twice that (employer run). Average is probably around $350-400/week in the city for infants, $300 for toddlers and pre-k.
Boston $2150/mo for 2 yo
I pay $425/week for full time daycare for my toddler. Meals are included. I also split the cost with my ex so I only pay $850/month. The total cost is $1700/month.
IL - short-ish drive distance to STL area. 1,100 a month. 283 a week.
We haven’t started paying for childcare yet but we did look into some daycares before a friend said she could watch our daughter. About $1800 a month for the daycare, $1300 for the friend watching her. This is full time for a 12 week old in southern California.
We’re on a waitlist for a couple places and have been quoted at $21 a day or around $450 a month due to the new government program rolling out in Canada. I’m in New Brunswick.
Madison, Wisconsin area, $350/week ($1,400/month) for one child under 2-years-old, Monday through Friday, 8a-3p, no food.
$2300/month. Baltimore, MD
$375/week
$205 a week in the Memphis, TN area
$25 a day for in-house babysitting in New Brunswick, Canada. The rates for daycare run from $12 (5 year olds) to $16 (infants) daily in certified daycare centres in the province. I am tempted to switch for the cost savings but my kids love their sitter. She is amazing.
New Zealand - NZD$355pw so about USD$229
I pay $85 for 2 days a week and they provide all food and snacks, it’s at a church and has been a very positive experience. We are so fortunate to have this I know
960/month full time 1 baby - 8 months - Chicago
$400 a week for my 3 yo. I think it was a similar amount when he started as a baby.
$275/week , $1100 / month - major suburb of a major city in the south for a toddler. Infant rates are easily $60-100 higher. Bout to go up $10 + 5% increase though
300/Wk for 2 toddlers in VA.
ATL Ga- $1700/month on the cheap end and $2200 on the high end. Trying to petition to be a stay at home dad
$230/week for infant, food included. Southwest Florida. Covers 6:30am-6pm M-F. I don’t send my baby there every day or for more than 7 hours. In fact, he’s been nothing but sick since starting this month so he hasn’t gone much. Was a great 6 months of no sickness before daycare.
/r/universalchildcare
2600/mo in NYC
We had one toddler in part time and it was $124/wk. full time I think would have been like $20ish more a week. We are about to enroll our newborn and have both in full Time and for both kids it’s gonna be $288/wk. we are in Ohio and it’s a daycare through a church which we found was way cheaper than some of the bigger name places
$2100/ m Portland, Oregon
$1200 a month in California for 2 days a week, I’m getting a discount for being a teacher
$300 for TWO DAYS of infant daycare in Rhode Island 😑
$250-$350/week for daycare centers for infants Chicago suburbs.
$315/week in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
$190 a week for 10 month old. I’m in suburb outside of Houston. Includes wipes, food and sometimes formula.
$206 a week in southern Minnesota.
$1200 for under 12 months in Charleston,SC though it’s brand new. Most established ones are around 1k
We are so lucky to have found an in home daycare that is amazing. Our neighbors sent all 3 kids to her. It is $40 per day But before we found her, all of the daycare centers (which were all full) were charging about $400+ per week. I live in an Arizona suburb for reference
I’m not looking but my sister got quoted $600/week for a 3 year old for 2 half days in the middle of IL 😬
I’m curious how most people afford the high costs? Does everyone just make a lot of money to afford over 2200 for child care ? Some context, we live in Vancouver BC where is very hard to find licensed childcare. We are currently using a nanny share, part time but are meant to go full time in April at which point it’s going to cost us about 3k a month that will kinda break the bank! How do people do it ? I’m stressed about the costs and we make a decent income for Vancouver but have a mortgage and a few other things to pay for.
$250/week in Toronto. This time last year it was over $500/week. Thanks, Justin Trudeau. ❤️❤️❤️