Gift/gesture for nanny on last day?

[Anonymous]

Our nanny's last day with us is this Friday. She has been with us for a year. My kids will be in school full time, so we no longer need a nanny. Parting ways on good terms, and she's found a new family already, which we helped her with.

What should I do for her on Friday to thank her? I was thinking of having the boys make cards, I'll hand write her a nice note, and give her flowers? What are some other ideas? What will she appreciate? She was a wonderful nanny.

[Anonymous]

Cake, flowers, nice gift she'd enjoy and a bonus check.

[Anonymous]

A weeks pay and cards from the boys

[Anonymous]

Graduation, birth, death, promotion, wedding, parting ways, etc is always money.

[Anonymous]

Money!

[Anonymous]

week check and cards from kids

[Anonymous]

A weeks pay and cards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our nanny's last day with us is this Friday. She has been with us for a year. My kids will be in school full time, so we no longer need a nanny. Parting ways on good terms, and she's found a new family already, which we helped her with.

What should I do for her on Friday to thank her? I was thinking of having the boys make cards, I'll hand write her a nice note, and give her flowers? What are some other ideas? What will she appreciate? She was a wonderful nanny.

A weeks pay in cash.

[Anonymous]

OP here. I have left several jobs on mutual terms, and my bosses have MAYBE had cookies or a modest happy hour in the break room to wish me well and say goodbye. Why a week's pay for nannies? That's more than $1,000. It just seems like a lot to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I have left several jobs on mutual terms, and my bosses have MAYBE had cookies or a modest happy hour in the break room to wish me well and say goodbye. Why a week's pay for nannies? That's more than $1,000. It just seems like a lot to me.

Because she carefully attended to your children, enabled you to keep advancing in your own job, and was a "wonderful nanny."

[Anonymous]

It was only a year.

[Anonymous]

You give a week's pay per year of work, to nannies and other household staff. That's just the way it's done.

[Anonymous]

Sounds fine to me, OP. You also helped her find another job so there is no break in income.

[Anonymous]

Skip the flowers. Use the money you'd spend towards a cash gift.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I have left several jobs on mutual terms, and my bosses have MAYBE had cookies or a modest happy hour in the break room to wish me well and say goodbye. Why a week's pay for nannies? That's more than $1,000. It just seems like a lot to me.

Because she carefully attended to your children, enabled you to keep advancing in your own job, and was a "wonderful nanny."

Not necessary if you paid her well on the books and gave her an annual bonus.