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Babysitting in Saskatoon You Can Actually Relax About

Certified sitters who know infant CPR, cook a safe meal, run the bedtime routine properly — and leave the kitchen cleaner than they found it. Meet yours for free before you book anything.

Infant & Child CPR Standard First Aid Food Safe Certified Vulnerable Sector Checked
2-hr minimum
Babysitting Saskatoon
Ages 6 months – 12 years
  • Date nights, shift work & school breaks
  • Meals prepared by a Food Safe sitter
  • Homework, play, bath & bedtime routine
  • Tidy-up included — every single time
Starting at $28/hr
We tidy up too
What's Included

More than someone sitting on your couch

Every babysitting booking in Saskatoon includes all of this as standard. There is no "premium tier" that unlocks the basics.

Meals & Snacks

Dinner cooked, snacks prepared, bottles warmed — all by a sitter with formal Food Safe certification. Allergies and dietary rules are written into the care plan before the first visit, not remembered on the fly.

Homework & Reading

School-age children get real help with homework, reading practice and projects — not a tablet handed over so the sitter can scroll. Screen time follows your rules, not theirs.

Actual Play

Crafts, games, backyard time in summer, indoor activities through a Saskatoon winter. Sitters arrive with ideas, and we ask what your child is into before the first booking.

Bath & Bedtime Routine

Your routine, followed exactly — the same order, the same songs, the same stuffed animal. Consistency is the whole reason bedtime works, and we don't improvise with it.

Tidy-Up Before We Leave

Dishes done, toys away, living room reset. This is the habit eight years of house cleaning built into us, and it is included at no extra cost in every single booking.

A Message When It's Done

A short text after the visit: what they ate, how bedtime went, anything you should know. You shouldn't have to walk in the door and interrogate someone to find out how the evening went.

When To Book Us

The situations we cover most

Some are planned months ahead. Some happen at 6am when a school calls. We handle both.

Date Nights

Evening and weekend sitting so you can actually leave the house. Two-hour minimum, later evenings welcome.

Shift Work

Built for Saskatoon's hospital, care-home and emergency-services families. Early mornings, evenings, rotating schedules.

After School & PD Days

Weekly after-school care, professional development days, and the full stretch of school breaks.

Sick Days & Emergencies

The morning a child can't go to school and you genuinely cannot miss work. Same-day when we have availability.

Babysitting Rates

What a babysitter costs in Saskatoon

Clear hourly rates, quoted before your first booking and never adjusted afterwards. No registration fee, no membership, no contract.

Occasional Sitting

One-off evenings, weekends and the days life doesn't cooperate.

from$28/hour
2-hour minimum · one child
  • CPR, First Aid & Food Safe sitter
  • Meals and snacks prepared
  • Full bedtime routine followed
  • Tidy-up before departure
  • Post-visit update message
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Overnight Care

For travel, night shifts and weekends away from home.

from$30/hour
Flat sleeping rate quoted per booking
  • Waking hours at the hourly rate
  • Reduced flat rate while children sleep
  • Full morning routine and school drop-off
  • Meet-and-greet required in advance
  • Written care plan mandatory
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Add-on or situationAdjustmentNotes
Each additional child+$4 / hourSiblings only; maximum four children per sitter
Hours after 9:00 pm+$3 / hourApplies to late evening pickups
Statutory holidays1.5× rateBooked at least one week ahead
Same-day booking+$15 flatSubject to sitter availability
Outside Saskatoon city limits+$0.55 / kmWarman and Martensville included at a flat $12
Meet-and-greetFree20 minutes, in your home, no obligation
Registration or membership feeNoneWe don't charge one

All rates are in Canadian dollars and cover a caregiver's wage, employer costs, insurance, WCB and scheduling. Booked alongside a recurring cleaning plan? Ask about the combined household rate when you call.

How It Works

From first call to first booking

1

Tell Us About Your Kids

Ages, routine, allergies, personalities. Two minutes on the phone and we'll quote you properly.

2

Meet the Sitter, Free

Twenty minutes in your home. The children meet them too — that part matters more than anything.

3

We Write It All Down

Routine, allergies, emergency contacts, screen rules, bedtime. You read it and approve it.

4

Go Enjoy Your Evening

Your sitter arrives on time. You get a message afterwards telling you how it all went.

Saskatoon Families

Why parents keep rebooking

Our care division is new, but our reputation in Saskatoon homes is not. Read all our customer reviews.

★★★★★

"They cleaned our place for three years before we ever needed a sitter, so we already knew exactly who was walking through the door. That head start is worth everything when it's your kids."

SM
Sarah M.Stonebridge
★★★★★

"I work nights at the hospital and finding someone reliable for a rotating schedule was impossible. Same sitter, same days, and she texts me how bedtime went. Complete game changer."

JT
Jenna T.Willowgrove
★★★★★

"We came home from dinner and the dishes were done and the toys were away. I genuinely did not expect that from a babysitter and now I can't imagine going back."

DR
Daniel R.Evergreen

Finding a Babysitter in Saskatoon: What Parents Should Look For

Most Saskatoon parents find babysitters the same way — a post in a neighbourhood Facebook group, a teenager from down the street, or a friend-of-a-friend recommendation. It works until it doesn't. The sitter gets a real job, moves away for university, or cancels an hour before your reservation, and you are back to square one with no backup and a table booked for seven.

The gap in this city has never been willing people. It's been reliability with accountability behind it: someone certified, screened, insured, replaceable if they're sick, and answerable to an actual business rather than a text thread.

The three certifications that genuinely matter

Plenty of sitters say they're "good with kids." Very few can show you paperwork. Every sitter we send holds all three of these, current and verifiable:

  • Infant and child CPR — adult CPR technique is different and, on a choking infant, insufficient. This is the single most important credential a sitter can have, and the one most rarely held.
  • Standard First Aid — a full recognized course covering bleeding, burns, allergic reactions, head injuries and when to call 911, not a thirty-minute online video.
  • Food Safe certification — formal food handling training. It sounds like restaurant paperwork until you consider that a sitter is warming bottles, reheating leftovers and preparing food for a child with a nut allergy.

Why the Vulnerable Sector Check is non-negotiable

A basic criminal record check is not the same document as a Criminal Record Check with Vulnerable Sector screening. The Vulnerable Sector Check is the enhanced screening specifically designed for people who will work unsupervised with children or dependent adults, and it surfaces records a standard check does not. Every caregiver on our team clears one before their first booking. If you are interviewing any sitter, from any source, ask for it by that exact name.

A question worth asking every babysitter: "If you're sick on Friday, what happens?" A private sitter has no answer. Booked through us, a named backup who has already met your family and read your care plan takes the shift.

What babysitting costs in Saskatoon, and why

Casual teenage sitters in Saskatoon typically charge $15 to $18 an hour. Certified adult sitters booked privately run $20 to $25. Our rate starts at $28, and it is worth being transparent about where the difference goes, because it is not margin.

An agency rate covers the caregiver's wage plus the employer contributions that come with employing someone properly — CPP, EI, WCB coverage, vacation pay — along with commercial liability insurance, the cost of certification and record checks, and the scheduling and backup infrastructure that means someone actually shows up. When you pay an individual privately in Canada, those obligations don't disappear; they can quietly land on you as the employer.

Babysitting through a Saskatoon winter

From November through March, a booking is not just supervision. It's knowing when it's too cold for outdoor play (Environment Canada wind chill warnings, not guesswork), how to layer a toddler properly for a walk, what to do with restless school-age kids in a house on a −35 day, and how to handle an unexpected school closure. Our sitters live here. They have opinions about which indoor activities survive a fourth consecutive snow day.

Where we babysit

We provide babysitting throughout Saskatoon, including Stonebridge, Nutana, Willowgrove, Evergreen, Brighton, Lawson Heights, Silverwood Heights, Sutherland, Hampton Village, Arbor Creek and Lakewood, plus Warman and Martensville at a flat travel rate.

Caring for a parent as well as a child

Many households we work with are managing both ends at once — young children and an aging parent. Our senior care service runs on the same screening standard and the same team, and combined households get a single schedule and a single invoice. See the full care services overview.

Babysitting FAQ

Questions parents ask us first

Our certified sitters start at $28 per hour for one child with a two-hour minimum. Each additional sibling is $4 per hour, hours after 9pm add $3 per hour, and statutory holidays are billed at 1.5×. A recurring weekly schedule of eight hours or more brings the rate down to about $25 per hour. Full breakdown in the rates table above.
Six months through twelve years. Sitters assigned to infants and toddlers hold infant and child CPR specifically. For babies under six months we ask for a longer meet-and-greet so the caregiver can learn your feeding and sleep routine properly before being left alone with them.
Every one of them — current CPR including infant and child technique, Standard First Aid, and Food Safe certification for meal preparation. We'll show you the certificates at the meet-and-greet, and you should ask any sitter from any source to do the same.
Yes, from $30 per hour for waking hours with a reduced flat rate for sleeping hours, quoted per booking. Overnight care requires a completed meet-and-greet and a written care plan in advance — we won't take an overnight booking from a family we haven't met.
Yes, and for recurring bookings that's exactly how we schedule it. You get a primary sitter plus one named backup who has also met your family and read the care plan, so a sick day never means a stranger at your door.
Always, and at no extra charge. Kitchen tidied, dishes done, toys away, living room reset. Eight years of house cleaning made it a reflex — it's included in every booking.
For a first booking, about a week so we can fit in the free meet-and-greet. Once you're set up as a client, one-off bookings can often be arranged with 48 hours' notice and sometimes the same day, subject to a $15 same-day fee and sitter availability.
Allergies, EpiPen location and usage, asthma inhalers and any medical routine go into the written care plan and are reviewed at the meet-and-greet. Our sitters can give medication reminders and administer emergency treatment they are First Aid trained for, such as an EpiPen. For any ongoing medical procedure beyond that, you'll want a licensed health professional.

Meet your sitter before you book

Twenty minutes in your home, completely free. Ask everything, meet the person, see the certificates — then decide.

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