Debate on nanny raise, percent or dollar/hour amount

[Anonymous]

We have a great nanny. And we are debating whether we should give her an above inflation increase like 3-5% , however the one spouse things it's insulting to give just a 40-75 a week more and it should be in the hundreds. The spouse that wants percentage is a seasoned manager at a large company and thinks it should be percentage but the other is not and thinks anything less than 100/week will be insulting.

[Anonymous]

40-75/week is 120-300 a month. Look at it that way. Spouse probably doesn’t get paid weekly and needs to thinks of the raise as biweekly or monthly maybe.

[Anonymous]

Make it 10% if you want to keep her for awhile.

[Anonymous]

Depends on what you start with, I think. $1/hour is a standard annual raise for nannies (which is about 2% for us), but this assumes that you are already paying market rate. Another thing to keep in mind is setting expectations. If you give her a 10% raise this year, will she expect the same next year? If you do give her a large raise, I would try to be clear about messaging - e.g., that you are giving her a large raise this year to bring her line with the market/keep her pay competitive, but that going forward you anticipate giving a more standard raise. We actually did do this; we hired someone at $30/hour, which was much lower than we expected to pay but that's what she asked for. After six months, we decided we really liked her and felt bad about her undervaluing herself, so we gave her a bonus to make up for being underpaid for six months and brought her up to $40/hour. She's now at $45/hour and has been with us for a while.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depends on what you start with, I think. $1/hour is a standard annual raise for nannies (which is about 2% for us), but this assumes that you are already paying market rate. Another thing to keep in mind is setting expectations. If you give her a 10% raise this year, will she expect the same next year? If you do give her a large raise, I would try to be clear about messaging - e.g., that you are giving her a large raise this year to bring her line with the market/keep her pay competitive, but that going forward you anticipate giving a more standard raise. We actually did do this; we hired someone at $30/hour, which was much lower than we expected to pay but that's what she asked for. After six months, we decided we really liked her and felt bad about her undervaluing herself, so we gave her a bonus to make up for being underpaid for six months and brought her up to $40/hour. She's now at $45/hour and has been with us for a while.

45 an hour??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Depends on what you start with, I think. $1/hour is a standard annual raise for nannies (which is about 2% for us), but this assumes that you are already paying market rate. Another thing to keep in mind is setting expectations. If you give her a 10% raise this year, will she expect the same next year? If you do give her a large raise, I would try to be clear about messaging - e.g., that you are giving her a large raise this year to bring her line with the market/keep her pay competitive, but that going forward you anticipate giving a more standard raise. We actually did do this; we hired someone at $30/hour, which was much lower than we expected to pay but that's what she asked for. After six months, we decided we really liked her and felt bad about her undervaluing herself, so we gave her a bonus to make up for being underpaid for six months and brought her up to $40/hour. She's now at $45/hour and has been with us for a while.

45 an hour??

LOL, nanny troll with ridiculous demands is back!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Depends on what you start with, I think. $1/hour is a standard annual raise for nannies (which is about 2% for us), but this assumes that you are already paying market rate. Another thing to keep in mind is setting expectations. If you give her a 10% raise this year, will she expect the same next year? If you do give her a large raise, I would try to be clear about messaging - e.g., that you are giving her a large raise this year to bring her line with the market/keep her pay competitive, but that going forward you anticipate giving a more standard raise. We actually did do this; we hired someone at $30/hour, which was much lower than we expected to pay but that's what she asked for. After six months, we decided we really liked her and felt bad about her undervaluing herself, so we gave her a bonus to make up for being underpaid for six months and brought her up to $40/hour. She's now at $45/hour and has been with us for a while.

Said no boss ever! 30$ wasn’t her being underpaid in fact that’s market rate. Stop trolling

45 an hour??

[Anonymous]

If you plan to keep her for more than 3 years, don’t give her a raise that you can’t keep up with as the years pass. $100/week is generous.

-career nanny

[Anonymous]

I’d suggest a $2-$3 raise would be fine along with end of year bonus and i’m sure she gets health insurance stipend of $400/month