What other expenses to expect or subtract?

In the contract that you sign with your baby-sitter you will note whether he or she will be paid on an hourly or fixed rate depending on what you have decided. The pay is the price of your babysitter's services. But this is not the only thing you have to pay, it is also necessary to add other unavoidable costs when hiring a babysitter..

The other costs of a babysitter.

When you use a babysitter during a time range which includes a meal, she has the right to ask for management of her food. This is what happens when you take your babysitter on vacation. In this case, you will also make available a room to her.

How to do it?

• You can prepare a meal for your babysitter ahead of time
• You can provide food at your home and allow her to prepare it herself (especially if she will be cooking for your children).
• You can pay the sitter to bring or purchase her own meal

Other expenses related to babysitting.

The costs of transport:

According to the distance between where you and your sitter live, you should:

• Either accompany your babysitter to his or her home (especially if he or she is very young or it is late).
• Or pay for his or her transports costs (gas, bus fare, taxi). 

Compensation in the event of a cancelation,

It may happen that you have to cancel a scheduled babysitting session.
If you have not given at least two hours before the scheduled start of the session, know that a babysitter is entitled to claim a portion of what she would have earned.