Part Time vs Full Time

[Chatter Box]

Just wanted to see if I am on track here. How many hours do you all consider your Part Time bracket?

I consider 25 hours or less part time and anything over 25 hours is full time. I get some crazy looks sometimes from parents when I tell them what I consider part time.

[Blackcat31]

Part time for me is 3 days or less. I don't count by hours only days.

[williams2008]

Just wanted to see if I am on track here. How many hours do you all consider your Part Time bracket?

I consider 25 hours or less part time and anything over 25 hours is full time. I get some crazy looks sometimes from parents when I tell them what I consider part time.

25 or less is part-time here as well.

[mamac]

I am planning on 27 hours as part time and 45 hours for full time. I figure an 8 hour work day plus an hour commute time each day would be 9 hours x 3 days. I'm not sure how it's going to work when I actually open, but that's what I'm shooting for.

[daycaremom76]

I consider part-time 3 days or less too. I do my rates based on days and not hours. Even if someone is here for only 4hrs a day they are still charged a full daily rate.

[LaLa1923]

Three or more days a week is full time. Anything less than that is part time.

[MamaBearCanada]

Full time is 5 days a week. I charge monthly in advance but works out to $35/day

Part time is anything less than 5 days a week. $40/day or $20/a half day either 8-12 or 12-4 anything overlapping that is a full day.

However, at the moment I don't have any parttime kids.

[melilley]

Part time for me is 3 days or less. I don't count by hours only days.

Same here. I have a 2 day minimum though. Does that seem to work out well? I don't want to mess with hourly or anything for part time that's why I thought I would do part time daily only.

[Blackcat31]

Same here. I have a 2 day minimum though. Does that seem to work out well? I don't want to mess with hourly or anything for part time that's why I thought I would do part time daily only.

My minimum is 3 days a week. If someone wants 2 days a week they are billed at pretty much the drop in rate.

I also offer half days but half days are either morning or afternoon and can not include lunch time or rest time.

I think it works out great and really limits the coming and going and accomodating all the various schedules and shifts parents have.

I am actually considering switching this summer to ONE weekly rate no matter if a child needs 1,2,3,4 or 5 days. One space = one rate.

Even easier.

[canadiancare]

My idea of part-time is less than 5 days a week. I don't accept any children part-time unless they can find someone to share the spot with. I currently have 2 teachers sharing one spot with grandparents doing off days. Since I am only allowed 5 kids I am not willing to be flexible on this.

I figure if I am up and open I might as well be full.

[MarinaVanessa]

I consider FT to be 4 or 5 days and since a full day for me is 10 hours long that would mean that FT would be 3 days or less so for me 30 hours or less is PT.

[Unregistered]

What would you consider 5 days per week from 12:30 to 5:15. They are taking up a full time slot but not the full time hours. Would you charge ft rate, or give a small discount, like $10 off the ft rate.

[itlw8]

P/t is 3 SET days ( no switching or rotating) If they need 4 days it cost the same as f/t so I give them the option of using the 5th day as long as they tell me in advance.

anything less than 3 days is drop in and charged a higher fee UNLESS they use the 2 days not used by a 3 day p/t child

[Blackcat31]

What would you consider 5 days per week from 12:30 to 5:15. They are taking up a full time slot but not the full time hours. Would you charge ft rate, or give a small discount, like $10 off the ft rate.

5 days a week whether here for one hour or 9 hours is still 5 days so that would be my FULL weekly rate.

I would NEVER give a discount to someone who is attending 5 days week unless you could find someone to fill the space around them.

Plus 12:30 drop off is smack in the middle of my busiest time of the day and for me that is harder to deal with NOT easier.

Bottom line is if you have access to the full time space, you are billed the full time rate.

[Mom&Provider]

My min. is 3 days per week which is considered P/T. If a child came from open to close on those days only (3 days) they would be here 28 1/2 hours per week, so I think your 25 hr/wk rule is fair.