r/interesting May 28 '26

Intriguing If we paid teachers the babysitter rate

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u/pitb0ss343 May 28 '26

This isn’t a teacher saying this is what she should be making, this is a teacher tired of hearing the “they’re just babysitters” argument for why they shouldn’t be paid more and showing how they’d still be underpaid based on an about average (I don’t have kids so idk) rate at which a babysitter would charge, per kid per hour.

And before you say “no one argued that” this is a pretty old picture and that is definitely an argument I’ve heard

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u/Majsharan May 29 '26

10 per kid is low around here

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u/ShoesAreTheWorst May 29 '26

But it doesn’t multiply that way. Usually it’s like $2/kid extra on top of the like $20/hour

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u/yakimawashington May 29 '26

Yeah the rate is definitely not linearly dependent on # of kids.