Drop-in Per Hour Child Care price?

[Suzie_Homemaker]

I'm not in BC and don't offer hourly drop in myself but know some who do. There seems to be two ways of charging for it here.

1. Hourly rate like babysitting which is $10 per hour here.
2. An inflated daily rate which is also charged for part timers, which is about $5-$7 more per day than usual fees. Anything more than 4 hours is full day PT rate. Anything under 4 hours is half day PT rate. So if someone charges say $45 for PT care, then it would be $23 for up to 4 hours and $45 for over 4 hours.

I guess part of the charging consideration would be how often you have a space sitting empty to be able to offer hourly drop in care, and what the demand is. If you have the space and the times of the availability are high demand, then you could likely charge more for it based on demand. I imagine that the hours before school or after school might have higher demand because there could be school age children needing the space.