{"id":134553,"date":"2026-02-15T18:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/134553\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:10:09","slug":"how-much-should-you-pay-your-babysitter-2026-rates-near-you-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/134553\/","title":{"rendered":"How much should you pay your babysitter? 2026 rates near you \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you remember earning $5 an hour as a teenage babysitter, you’ll be shocked by what babysitters earn today.<\/p>\n

UrbanSitter has tracked childcare cost trends and analyzed tens of thousands of babysitting jobs for the last 15 years. According to\u00a0UrbanSitter\u2019s 2026 survey<\/a>, babysitters in the U.S. earn an hourly salary of anywhere from $19 to $29.<\/p>\n

Many factors go into a babysitter’s hourly wage, including age, experience, geographic location, responsibilities and number of children. The hourly average rate nationwide is $26.24 for one child, $29.87 for two kids and $32.33 for three.<\/p>\n

Babysitting rates are the highest in San Francisco, Seattle and Honolulu. On the other end of the scale, San Antonio, Dallas\/Ft. Worth and Columbus, Ohio are the most affordable cities for babysitters.<\/p>\n

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Find out which state has the highest and lowest babysitting rates in 2026. Courtesy UrbanSitter<\/p>\n

If that sounds like a lot of money, it is. Average babysitting rates increased by 4.9% last year, even outpacing the 3% rate of inflation.<\/p>\n

Keep reading to find out the average rate for babysitters near you.<\/p>\n

Babysitting Hourly Rates by City for 2026<\/p>\n

Here are the most updated average babysitting rates, according to UrbanSitter. How does your area fare?<\/p>\n

Atlanta, GA:\u00a0$20.78 (one child), $23.74 (two children)<\/p>\n

Austin, TX:\u00a0$23.39 (one child), $27.58 (two children)<\/p>\n

Boston, MA:\u00a0$25.52 (one child), $27.78 (two children)<\/p>\n

Charlotte, NC:\u00a0$23.56 (one child), $28.67 (two children)<\/p>\n

Chicago, IL:\u00a0$22.21 (one child), $25.83 (two children)<\/p>\n

Columbus, OH:\u00a0$19.98 (one child), $20.71 (two children)<\/p>\n

Dallas\/Ft. Worth, TX:\u00a0$19.25 (one child), $22.58 (two children)<\/p>\n

Denver, CO:\u00a0$24.05 (one child), $26.60 (two children)<\/p>\n

Honolulu, HI:\u00a0$27.22 (one child), $29.38 (two children)<\/p>\n

Houston, TX:\u00a0$21.69 (one child), $23.68 (two children)<\/p>\n

Las Vegas, NV:\u00a0$21.26 (one child), $23.08 (two children)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles, CA:\u00a0$26.11 (one child), $29.22 (two children)<\/p>\n

Miami, FL:\u00a0$21.15 (one child), $26.56 (two children)<\/p>\n

Minneapolis, MN:\u00a0$21.35 (one child), $23.46 (two children)<\/p>\n

Nashville, TN:\u00a0$23.43 (one child), $24.53 (two children)<\/p>\n

New York City, NY:\u00a0$26.03 (one child), $28.77 (two children)<\/p>\n

North Jersey, NJ:\u00a0$25.38 (one child), $26.52 (two children)<\/p>\n

Orlando, FL:\u00a0$21.68 (one child), $23.00 (two children)<\/p>\n

Philadelphia, PA:\u00a0$20.10 (one child), $21.00 (two children)<\/p>\n

Phoenix, AZ:\u00a0$20.59 (one child), $23.63 (two children)<\/p>\n

Portland, OR:\u00a0$23.98 (one child), $27.07 (two children)<\/p>\n

Raleigh\/Durham, NC:\u00a0$22.23 (one child), $24.29 (two children)<\/p>\n

Reno-Tahoe, NV:\u00a0$23.90 (one child), $30.50 (two children)<\/p>\n

Sacramento, CA:\u00a0$22.79 (one child), $24.32 (two children)<\/p>\n

San Diego, CA:\u00a0$24.39 (one child), $27.06 (two children)<\/p>\n

San Francisco, CA:\u00a0$29.63 (one child), $33.70 (two children)<\/p>\n

Seattle, WA:\u00a0$27.70 (one child), $30.79 (two children)<\/p>\n

San Antonio, TX:\u00a0$18.21 (one child), $21.94 (two children)<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay, FL:\u00a0$21.26 (one child), $25.58 (two children)<\/p>\n

Washington, DC (DC\/Baltimore)\u00a0: $23.95 (one child), $26.01 (two children)<\/p>\n

This story\u00a0first appeared on TODAY.com<\/a>. More from TODAY:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you remember earning $5 an hour as a teenage babysitter, you’ll be shocked by what babysitters earn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4207,9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-134553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-children","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}