neil32

Hi

Looking for childcare costs for Brisbane suburbs. The suburbs I am looking at are 25-30km out the city.

I looked at my child.gov at some places in the city, 10km outside city and in the areas I am looking at 25-30km and the prices seem to be approx $65-85 per session (full day inc lunch).

I have emailed a few places but thought I'd ask all you kind BE in Brisbane with kids to share their costs. My child would be approx 3 when we went

Thanks

fish.01

Our daughter is 2, turning 3 this year. We pay $76/day x 2 days (byo food) at a centre 1km from the city centre. We get half of that amount back from the govt so we are out of pocket $76 for the 2 days.

TimbersBack

I never realised it was so expensive

fish.01

Sometimes it bites but then I think paying $38 a day for great people to teach and care for my child is probably not a lot really...if on a lower income it gets cheaper as more govt subsidy kicks in.

I think the main problem is when you don't have PR (ie 457) and have to pay double or if you use it 5 days a week and go over the $7,500 cap.

neil32

Thanks for the info thats great to hear the costs I have found are about right.

TimbersBack in the likes of Melbourne we were looking at $100 a day, how accurate this was I am not sure