What is the rate for a nanny who brings her child?

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't make sense to pay $12-$13 an hour for a nanny who bring her child. A discount of only a few dollars isn't worth all the hassles, liability, and reduction in care. There is no benefit to the employer other than the cost reduction so if its not really worth to you don't do it.

[Anonymous]

I bring my son and depending on the are charge 10-12 for a family with one other child.

I currently work with a family with a 6 month old and a 20 month old. I charge 15 an hour. I started at 12 an hour 15 months ago.

My son is drawing the short straw attention wise because hes old enough to he self sufficient and play alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't make sense to pay $12-$13 an hour for a nanny who bring her child. A discount of only a few dollars isn't worth all the hassles, liability, and reduction in care. There is no benefit to the employer other than the cost reduction so if its not really worth to you don't do it.

YOU wouldn't. But YOU probably also wouldn't consider sharing a nanny with another family. For a family looking for the discount of a share and is already open to the challenges a share brings, for a dollar or two more per hour they could have most of the benefits of their own nanny ie. care provided in their home, setting the schedule to your convenience, not having to reconcile expectations of a nanny and 2 sets of parents, and their child taking priority but also getting the benfits of a playmate/sibling experience, and potential household chores that are inappropriate in a typical share.

[Anonymous]

If I needed a discount I would do a share with another family not a nanny. A share with another family is less expensive but you have greater benefits in equality between the kids and no expectation to incur other costs for the kids. If a nanny is bringing her child, it will either be awkward to sign your child up for classes/activities or you'll have to pay for the other kid. Same goes for sending extra money for activities or grabbing lunch/snacks out of the house. Since the nanny is an employee of yours, her car insurance or your car insurance probably isn't going to cover an accident involving her child. This liability would scare me.

Its one thing to expect a nanny to follow your parenting guidelines with you child. Its different to expect her to follow your parenting guidelines with her own child so you'll be stuck with her doing her thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I needed a discount I would do a share with another family not a nanny. A share with another family is less expensive but you have greater benefits in equality between the kids and no expectation to incur other costs for the kids. If a nanny is bringing her child, it will either be awkward to sign your child up for classes/activities or you'll have to pay for the other kid. Same goes for sending extra money for activities or grabbing lunch/snacks out of the house. Since the nanny is an employee of yours, her car insurance or your car insurance probably isn't going to cover an accident involving her child. This liability would scare me.

Its one thing to expect a nanny to follow your parenting guidelines with you child. Its different to expect her to follow your parenting guidelines with her own child so you'll be stuck with her doing her thing.

If you're sharing with a nanny, the expectation should be that she pays for activities/meals for her child. You would have to coordinate these things just as you would have to with another family. The accident liability would be the same in a share, but you could have her drive them in her vehicle and pay for a rider for her insurance. These are the same considerations/challenges that come with any type of share, but like I said before its clearly not for you. That's fine, but what works for you is not the standard by which the rest of us make our decisions.

[Anonymous]

If you're sharing with a nanny, the expectation should be that she pays for activities/meals for her child. You would have to coordinate these things just as you would have to with another family.

LOL. Not going to happen. You can't ask your nanny to shell out $100-$200 for a my gym or music class. You would feel bad about her child having to watch and not participate. If you hire a nanny with a child you just need to decide upfront whether you are going to forego activities or factor in the cost of paying for two kids. You should also factor in the cost of food and other incidentals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

If you're sharing with a nanny, the expectation should be that she pays for activities/meals for her child. You would have to coordinate these things just as you would have to with another family.

LOL. Not going to happen. You can't ask your nanny to shell out $100-$200 for a my gym or music class. You would feel bad about her child having to watch and not participate. If you hire a nanny with a child you just need to decide upfront whether you are going to forego activities or factor in the cost of paying for two kids. You should also factor in the cost of food and other incidentals.

+1

[Anonymous]

That's extremely presumptuous to assume the nanny wouldn't be able to pay for activities. Why would it be okay to expect as much from another share family but not the nanny herself, for her child? Or you could, you know, find classes that aren't $200...mind blowing right??

[Anonymous]

As with a nanny share you need to where on things like food and money before hide.

I pay for all my sons activities and am upfront about how much and what Type of classes ill pay for.

Why you think a nannies child doesn't get to do activities unless someone other than the parent pays for the class is beyond me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It depends on how much you want that particular nanny. Some might give you a discount while others may not. Personally, I was hired by a pediatric psychiatrist. She was happy to have my child come to work with me. Moreover, she never ever asked me to give her a discount.

Now you see, how it all depends....

[Anonymous]

If you want to pay half like a normal share, then you need to be willing to give up some control over the schedule and also be willing to drive your child to the nanny's place some of the days.