Referral Fees, per each assignment
$22 per assignment* |
referral fees are payable to your credit card at the time of booking and are non refundable. |
*add $15 for holidays, $15 for multiple families and $15 for booking with less than 12 hours notice. |
Suggested Sitter Hourly Rates:
1 Munchkins | $20 /hour |
2 Munchkins | $21 /hour |
3 Munchkins | $22 /hour |
4 Munchkins | $23 /hour |
- All babysitting services have a four hour minimum.
- Hourly rate is paid to your sitter in check or cash.
- For children with special needs, twins 3 years and younger, multiple families sharing a sitter, infants under 1 year, sick children and bookings with 12 hrs or less notice add $2 per occurrence to the sitter’s hourly rate.
- Add $2 to the hourly rate for assistance with online schooling.
- $10 added for travel to Temecula, Pala, Murrieta, Menifee, Ramona, Fallbrook and Valley Center.
- Should sitter be required to transport child to/from activities, $0.65/ per mile will be charged.
- For all assignments, a referral fee/deposit will be paid to Munchkin Minders at the time of booking. This fee is payable by credit card.
- For on-call assignments, 24 hours notice is required to cancel once a sitter has been assigned. If required notice is not given, client will be charged a 40 cancellation fee ($60 on holidays). Notice of cancellations made in 3 hours or less, will be charged the full four hours, including referral fees. If Client is merely re-scheduling for a different day in the same week with the same sitter, the full amount of the referral fees/deposit will be applied to the new assignment date.
Holidays
For all holidays, rates are calculated at hourly rate plus a half for the sitter and $15 booking fee and will apply to the following dates:
New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.
The purpose of the rate increase on holidays is to encourage availability on days when most sitters will have alternate plans.

Overnight Sitter Rate per 24 hours: |
1-2 Munchkins $350.00 |
3-4 Munchkins $400.00 |
Overnight Referral Fee per 24 hours: |
$40.00 |
Placement fees are payable to your credit card at the time of booking and are non refundable. Holidays and booking with 12hrs or less notice, add $10 to booking fee. Holiday sitter rates, hourly + 1/2. Booking with less than 12 hours, for sitters, add $50 per 24hrs |
Should sitter be required to transport child to/from activities mileage will be charged at 65 cents per mile.
Children under 1 year, twins 3yrs and under, special needs, sick children, multiple families will be charged an extra $50 per 24 hours
For overnight assignments, 72 hours notice of cancellation is required once a sitter has been assigned. If required notice is given, client will be charged 50% the referral fee/deposit. If required notice is not given, Client will be charged 50% of the first 24hrs for the sitter and referral fee in no refundable. If Client is merely re-scheduling for a different day in the same week with the same sitter, the full amount of referral fees/deposit will be applied to the new assignment date.
Once an overnight assignment has begun, should Client return home earlier than the scheduled return date, Client will be charged a minimum of one 24 hour period plus the standard hourly rate for each additional hour, or any part of an hour rounded to the nearest 15 minutes worked prior to Client’s return. If Client returns home less than 24 hrs. earlier than expected, client will pay Sitter the regular hourly rate for the remainder of time that Sitter was scheduled for. If the 24 hour rate is less than the standard hourly rate, Client will pay the lesser of the two.