Babysitting - what does it pay nowadays?

[marydell]

We're getting ready to have our 15-year-old neighbor start babysitting Charlie.  What do teenagers earn for babysitting nowadays? I think this is her first gig, and since she (well, her parents) refuse to let us pay her for house/cat/fish sitting, I think she'll undercharge if I leave it to her.  I want to pay her fairly.

I plan on starting her off babysitting while I'm in the house doing other stuff, by the way, so she can ease into it--that's how I learned and I really need to organize the damn basement, so it will be money well spent.