Understanding Daycare Charges
Daycare charges or fee structure is devised with costing of property’s rental value, manpower cost, cost of living, transport, and nominal average income per capita. Daycare owners and parents both should understand the daycare fee structure can use this fee structure to post judicial daycare profit and provide quality services.
- Complete monthly daycare package: Daycare charges for a whole month, Including value-added services like meals, bathing, massaging (for infants/toddlers), afterschool tuition, age-related activities, martial arts (two days a week), music (two days a week),
- Only daycare charges: Daycare charges for a whole month without any value-added services as mentioned above.
- Daycare charge for a single day: daycare charges where a child stays from 7 am to 7 pm for a single day with a meal, but without any other value-added services.
- Daycare charge for overnight stay: When a child stays at night hours and the date changes, means if you drop the child in the late evening and pick child on next day’s early morning hour, to be precise from 8 pm to 7 am of next day.
- Hourly charges: parents drop a child for a few hours but not more than 8 hours.
- Meal charge for a month: A single meal for a full month is given on every functional day; on a non-functional day, a single meal will cost about 50% more,
- Daycare transport charges: A cab (airconditioned) includes at least one nanny to escort the child that picks the child up from home to center and center to home.
- ‘A month‘ is considered from 1st of the month to the concluding date, weekends and gazetted holidays remain non-functional, and if parents want/need to send a child on non-functional days, they have to pay a daily basis or single daycare charge.
- Age Group: Infant (up to 18 months), Toddlers (18months to 4 years), and kids(above four years)