is $30 per hr a new reality?

[Anonymous]

I have been looking at the nanny jobs at major agency websites (DC) just to get an idea how much to pay a nanny if I end up needing one, and what I see is that $30-35 range seems quite common vs 25-30 6 months ago, so I am having a sticker shock. It must be this crazy inflation and overall lack of quality daycare centers that creates this demand but it seems that nannies now make almost as much as people in professional jobs...I guess good for them, but not great for all the parents out there.

[Anonymous]

I prefer my local home daycare, nanny is too much work

[Anonymous]

I want to be in more control of what is happening to my child, so it will have to be a nanny. Still, a $30 per hr! She better be good.

[Anonymous]

I'll never cease to be amazed at how little we value the people who care for/educate our kids.

I bet you wouldn't blink at paying $30 an hour to the guy who fixes your car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll never cease to be amazed at how little we value the people who care for/educate our kids.

I bet you wouldn't blink at paying $30 an hour to the guy who fixes your car.

Guys who fix cars have been making twice that for decades, in fact. Many these days make closer to $100/hr.

I take care of other people’s dying relatives - they’re beloved grandparents, parents, siblings and sometimes kids. I’m in one of the best paying states and we don’t even make $20/hr., as hospice caregivers.

America has twisted priorities.

[Anonymous]

Any nanny working for me does have a “professional” job. Sounds like you want a babysitter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll never cease to be amazed at how little we value the people who care for/educate our kids.

I bet you wouldn't blink at paying $30 an hour to the guy who fixes your car.

If I had to pay for my car to be fixed for 40 hours every week at that rate, I would take the bus.

Caregivers should be paid well, yes. And childcare should be high quality and affordable.

Somehow other countries make it work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll never cease to be amazed at how little we value the people who care for/educate our kids.

I bet you wouldn't blink at paying $30 an hour to the guy who fixes your car.

Paying this rate quarterly for a day vs paying this for 5 days a week for several years …

Yep, totally the same.

[Anonymous]

We paid $25 per hour 10 years ago. That doesn’t seem like too big of an increase in a decade to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll never cease to be amazed at how little we value the people who care for/educate our kids.

I bet you wouldn't blink at paying $30 an hour to the guy who fixes your car.

Paying this rate quarterly for a day vs paying this for 5 days a week for several years …

Yep, totally the same.

Then raise your own kids. Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll never cease to be amazed at how little we value the people who care for/educate our kids.

I bet you wouldn't blink at paying $30 an hour to the guy who fixes your car.

If I had to pay for my car to be fixed for 40 hours every week at that rate, I would take the bus.

Caregivers should be paid well, yes. And childcare should be high quality and affordable.

Somehow other countries make it work.

You have two incomes however.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll never cease to be amazed at how little we value the people who care for/educate our kids.

I bet you wouldn't blink at paying $30 an hour to the guy who fixes your car.

If I had to pay for my car to be fixed for 40 hours every week at that rate, I would take the bus.

Caregivers should be paid well, yes. And childcare should be high quality and affordable.

Somehow other countries make it work.

You have two incomes however. I have one. I do not have kids. Should I support your desire to have even more discretionary income?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll never cease to be amazed at how little we value the people who care for/educate our kids.

I bet you wouldn't blink at paying $30 an hour to the guy who fixes your car.

If I had to pay for my car to be fixed for 40 hours every week at that rate, I would take the bus.

Caregivers should be paid well, yes. And childcare should be high quality and affordable.

Somehow other countries make it work.

I’m unaware of any country with wages as high than in the US for white collar workers. I’d prefer high wages and a few years of high childcare costs.

[Anonymous]

$60,000 a year pre tax is not a high salary for this area op. This is why most people in all western countries rely on group childcare. A single dedicated caregiver for your child is a luxury, not a right. Dcum has a never ending appetite for an underpaid servant class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll never cease to be amazed at how little we value the people who care for/educate our kids.

I bet you wouldn't blink at paying $30 an hour to the guy who fixes your car.

If I had to pay for my car to be fixed for 40 hours every week at that rate, I would take the bus.

Caregivers should be paid well, yes. And childcare should be high quality and affordable.

Somehow other countries make it work.

Oh, I get it. You take a bus because the aim is to reach from point A to point B instead of being a car owner.

In the same vein - you should become the pet parent of a gold fish instead of the parent of a human child.