article_snippet: Babysitters may have once just been the teenager next door, but nowadays parents in some states are willing to pay over $16 an hour for a caregiver parents in some states children adore.
article_snippet: By contrast, babysitters in 2009 made an average $10.50 an hour.
article_snippet: The Care.com survey, which had more than one thousand respondents, revealed that babysitters are most expensive in San Francisco, where they make an average of $16.65 per hour.
article_snippet: Babysitters make, on average, $11.31 an hour in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the cheapest of the rates.
article_snippet: Cities in South Carolina, Utah and Ohio round out the top five least-expensive babysitter wages with costs in the $11 rage - with Rochester, New York, also making a surprise appearance.