16 Sep How much should kids charge parents for IT help
Many parents struggle with various aspects of technology. This is especially true for online tasks and tools that parents need to use for their job, own business or personal life.
Interested in computer training and education, Prolifics Testing surveyed 2,664 teenagers (aged 13 – 18) to discover the online tasks they help their parents with most and how many hours they have spent doing so in the past 12 months.
They also calculated how much the teenagers would make if they were to charge their parents for this.
Some of the highlights from the research include:
- Teenagers on average could earn £4,214.25 per year for all the IT support they provide their parents
- In the past year, teenagers have spent an average of 32 hours helping their parents with social media and if they were to bill their parents for the assistance, they would pocket £519.04
- Children have also provided a lot of email guidance to parents, doing so for 29 hours in the past year – their insights could have made them a hefty £693.68
- Interestingly, 67% of teenagers have had to help their parents set up a Zoom or Skype meeting in the past few months
- 52% have assisted their parents with setting up a Whatsapp group video call and 43% setting up a Whatsapp group chat
For full details into the research (including complete methodology), please see: https://www.prolifics-testing.com/how-much-children-could-earn-charging-parents-IT-help