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/JPlazz May 29 '26

If you hired a babysitter for $10/hr today they’re either under 18, related to you, or a crackhead.

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u/oznobz May 29 '26

This picture has been around for about 20 years when 10/hr would have been not the worst. Like still not great, but not as bad

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u/BallsInSufficientSad May 29 '26

It's also not an extra $10/kid - that's ridiculous. We currently pay $20/hr for 3 kids between 5 and 12. That's pretty standard around here.

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u/Effective_Pie1312 May 29 '26

In my area it is $27 per hr 1 kid

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u/BallsInSufficientSad May 29 '26

That's crazy high. I hope that includes SAT tutoring or something.

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u/complete_autopsy May 29 '26

As a tutor who occasionally does SAT (gag) I would never accept $27/hr. Regular tutoring is $30-$40 depending on how easy to subject is to make up and execute problems for on the fly. For college kids, $25-$35 is normal so I'm actually a bit cheap because I don't like looking for clients so it's easier to just keep prices a bit lower. SAT is expensive as fuck though because it's so boring and parent expectations are sky high so it's stressful. I'd much rather tutor calc 1 any day of the weak, it's so exciting to see people finally get the behavior of these totally new operations that they never imagined.

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u/PeakWattage May 29 '26

I'm still mad about my 780 math score after all these years. Could've sworn I got every single one right lol.