Care.com - Anyone Used It for a Nanny/sitter? How Does Paying Work?

I am registered at care.com for childcare and housekeeping. So far I've found a great family that I really enjoy cleaning for! I m still looking for another family to help out as well. When I registered I gave all my information and the have completed a background check as well. You can set up what you expect for pay, although its pretty general. Just check your area and you will get a list of all that is available and and you can look at the profile and decide from there! Just shoot a message and negotiate! Best of luck love!

I am using them now to find a sitter. You can negotiate a rate with them and theres also a box where that has the pay scale like $5-$10 per hour or $15-$20 per hour etc.

We have used them and found a great babysitter. The site has nothing to do with paying the sitter, you just pay them like you would if you found the sitter down the street. I believe the site is just for finding and posting jobs and each sitter has their own rate, so no mark up. The sitters do not have to pay to post their profiles but you have to pay if you want to get the background checks etc.

I have used care.com twice and been very happy with the ease of use as well as the quality of caregivers.

I don't find there is a "markup".

I believe the site is for sitters / nannies / pet care / elderly.

When you advance from the "free" membership, the membership fee that you pay allows you to communicate with propsective caregivers as well (I think) as seeing the background check and reference info for the candidate.

But once you communicate and decide you like someone enough to move to a more formal interview you work out the payment for their services between the two of you. I think most of the cargivers specify a "range" they will accept, but then you negotiate just like you would with any babysitter.

Hope that helps.