Hal_Al
Level 15

Business & farm

Yes. Over $2000, social security tax must be paid. So, you would file the income as self employment income, instead of Household employee income.
Interestingly, the rule is $2000 per household. So, for example, if you  made $5000 in 2017 babysitting for three households and none of them paid you more than $2000. you could still file HSH