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In America my friends pay $3,500 per child per month. The grass is always greener I suppose.

Gotta be San Francisco rates, or a very fancy place. Nicer daycares (usually Montessori schools that also take kids under a year) in our US city are around $900-$1200/m. Less-nice, $700-900.

No idea where you live. But the cost in sf, nyc, Boston, Seattle is all about 3k/month.

wtf on???

$3,500 per month must be 99th percentile daycare cost in the US.

Most people play $1,500 to $2,500, for dedicated daycare facilities with the prescribed 4:1 or 7:2 teacher:infant ratio.

Out of curiosity, I did some spelunking. The US Department of Labor has stats[0] which summarize county-level "median yearly prices for one child at the market rate." Still TBD what the comprehensive data show at P99. That said, among the county-level medians, it appears the maximum estimated cost in 2023 is in Arlington County, VA, at $28,747 for a single infant, which is $2400/mo.

[0] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/topics/childcare/price-by-ag...

Hopefully that’s the infant:teacher ratio. 4 teachers per infant seems a little extreme, and means massive underpaid adults!

If I was the adult, I would need a 4 adult to 1 infant ratio.

But yes, thanks for the correction.

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