You have found a sitter you trust and they will be in your home most weeks. Then someone mentions PRSI and you wonder if you have missed a form.<\/p>\n
babysitter PRSI Ireland is the Pay Related Social Insurance contribution paid on a worker’s earnings. It becomes your job in one situation only: when the sitter is your employee. For a casual sitter, it usually isn’t. This guide shows how to tell the difference, how employer PRSI works, and who pays when the sitter is self-employed.<\/p>\n
Our babysitter tax guide<\/a> explains who owes what on the tax side. Here we stay with PRSI. Hiring a sitter for the first time? Browse babysitters in Ireland<\/a> before you work out the PRSI side.<\/p>\n Key Takeaways<\/strong> Whether babysitter PRSI Ireland is yours to handle depends on how the sitter works for you. Citizens Information gives a simple test. If the homeowner deducts tax and pays PRSI on the worker’s behalf, the worker is employed as a domestic worker<\/a>. It lists childminding among the duties such a worker may do.<\/p>\n It also says someone who only works occasionally in a home may not be a domestic worker. They may be self-employed, and then they pay their own taxes and their own babysitter PRSI Ireland. If you live in Dublin, you can browse babysitters in Dublin<\/a>. Employer PRSI babysitter Ireland rules start at \u20ac38 a week of pay.<\/p>\n So ask how regular and ongoing the work is:<\/p>\n When your sitter is an employee, Citizens Information says you deduct PAYE, PRSI and USC from their wages, pay employer’s PRSI to the Social Insurance Fund and give them a payslip. From 1 October 2026, the Department of Social Protection sets employer PRSI at 9.15% on weekly pay of \u20ac38 to \u20ac352. Want to compare sitters? In Meath, try babysitters in Meath<\/a>.<\/p>\n You are an employer even though the workplace is your kitchen. The Department publishes rates for the standard employee class, Class A, which covers reckonable pay of \u20ac38 or more a week. The Class A rates page lists each band from 1 October 2026:<\/p>\n\n\n
\n– Babysitter PRSI Ireland is the parent’s job only if the sitter is an employee.
\n– An occasional sitter may be self-employed and handle their own tax and PRSI.
\n– Revenue’s rule: register as an employer at \u20ac40 or more paid in a week.
\n– From 1 October 2026, employer PRSI on weekly pay of \u20ac38 to \u20ac352 is 9.15%.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nBabysitter PRSI Ireland applies only to an employee<\/h2>\n
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Employer babysitter PRSI Ireland: how it works<\/h2>\n