I have a 9 year old boy, and I am setting up a list of jobs and payment system.
Does anyone have a successful system.
List of jobs
What each job is worth etc.
Look forward to hearing your suggestions. đ
Jobs and payment system for 9yr old
Friday, 20 July 2018 - 12:55
Jobs and payment system for 9yr old
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My kids are still very young but I brought a whiteboard template for chores from Kmart that Iâm keeping in the cupboard for another year or two but it looks really good. It has a column to put chores in ect and smaller magnets to pop on whenever they complete one..
not sure f thatâs any help to you but I just thought id chime in lol
I feel like the easiest system would be to do all jobs through out the week and at the end, if all completed, he gets a base rate of say $10 or whatever depending how many jobs you want him to do or how often ect.
I do know my mum used to do like $1-2 per actual job that I did but $1 or two doesnât go very far these days lol
We donât pay for jobs around the home as thatâs just part of being in a family. Nobody is going to pay my son to do his own dishes as an adult, so there is no payment for doing it as a child.
I donât do a $$ value, I do an experience.
If everyone pitches in equally in a week then we go somewhere as a family (picnic at the beach, lunch in the park, kids playland, movie night a home with popcorn) those types of things.
My son loves money, and sometimes I give the option of a cinema day, so I give him enough money to pay for his own ticket.
I wish I could post a photo here, but mine sits on the inside of our pantry door, and has a list of âjobsâ and a name. Once itâs done, we put the magnetic dot on the square.
Itâs made on a whiteboard..
Column a - name
Column b - job
Column c - frequency
Jacob âwash dishesâ M,T,W
Jacob âfeed dogâ M,F
Jacob âmake bedâ daily
Mum âmop floorâ daily
Mum âwash clothesâ M,W,F,Sun
Then we just move the magnetic dots into the square once done.
Itâs hard to explain, but makes it easy.
On Thursday night we have a quick look and decide whatâs on offer for the weekend, then the kids know if jobs arenât done, they donât go. We have a boring cleaning the house day instead.
We had two - chores for being part of the family and chipping in to run a household, and then extra jobs worth money.
Normal chores were things like sorting washing (and when old enough, washing, hanging out, bringing in and putting away his washing), helping with the dishes, vacuuming the floor, packing his own lunch, tidying up after himself (hanging up wet towels, scraping his plate before sitting it on the sink, rubbish in bins etc), taking the wheelie bins out, feeding the dogs etc.
Extra jobs were jobs he could do that were our jobs and we'd pay him for it. Washing cars = $20-50 depending on level of cleaning required. Mowing = $20 for the small yard and $30 for the bigger yard with no raking. Added a tenner to each if he used the catcher and put the clippings in the compost heap. Weeding, mopping, taking the house bins out to clean them things like that. He'd wash select friends cars too for the "loose change" in their car - being miners and oil rig workers, they paid a lot more than we did. One had over a hundred bucks in loose change in there once.