In most case, people usually hire a young girl to be a mothers helper, are looking for cheap labor. I don’t think, even if they are well to do, they would pay $750 a week. I am sure, even their housekeepers don’t make that amount in a week, and if they do, let me know cuz I wish I could make that amount in a week. Seriously, they could just hire a someone, who will do the cleaning and babysitting for at least half that price, and still be a live-in. I think your father should be realistic in what he should be expecting a young girl as a mothers helper should be earning. In most cases it is peanuts. The families that hire mothers helper look at this way, that the girls should be happy they get to go away for the summer.
I remember I was a mothers helper, way back when, I could not believe what I got paid, it was nothing to write home about, and after hours if someone else needed me, they paid $1.00 an hour. I have no idea what today’s going rate for a mothers helper is today though. I think maybe ask your friends to see what they got paid.
Nowadays teenagers in camp hardly get paid, for the job they do, unless they luck out and get youth corp.
Basically it is cheap labor, and in some camps, the CIT’s have to pay for the “priviledge” to work in a camp. Never could understand why someone would want to pay to be a CIT. I just think it is taking advantage of kids.