Where are all the 30+/hour nanny jobs?

[Anonymous]

Now that daycares and afterschool programs are back up and running, the age of $35 nanny salaries are over.

[Anonymous]

I feel like a ton of people in my neighborhood want that but the rate is super high. Maybe a share?

[Anonymous]

Hello, I am a recent (2022) graduate nurse with a bachelor’s degree living in Silver Spring. I and every one else in my class year makes less than $35/hr.

Among other skills, I can and have kept people alive when their heart stopped, I can detect when someone is about to stop breathing and intervene, and I can and have saved someone from choking more than once. I change complicated dressings and prevent serious infections every day. Apples to apples, I “care” for 2-5 people at once, monitoring them closely for 12 hours at a time.

Explain please why a kind, loving baby-sitter with a fraction of my education and hard baby-sitter skills should make more than a registered nurse?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree with PPs.
On the nanny board they’re all talking about these $30 an hour jobs but in reality they’re just not the norm.

+1

I've had a couple different nannies and I know a lot of people with nannies and have searched for nannies and I've found that DCUM discussions of nanny payments are WAY outside of the range of normal. We currently pay $26 for a share ($13 per family) and it's competitive (not cheap, not particularly generous).

She might be able to get $30 for a share, that's probably her best bet, but $32 for a single family is absurdly high.

[Anonymous]

Nanny can come and work in a restaurant in DC. Flexible hours, very high pay, and they feed her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nanny can come and work in a restaurant in DC. Flexible hours, very high pay, and they feed her.

OP said her nanny only wants a job close to her home in Fairfax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm asking this seriously for my nanny who we will not be needing starting in September. Her current pay rate with us is $32/hr and she expressed concern over finding another job in that range. She said the agency she is with does not have many jobs in that pay range and the ones that do are in the city or prefer people with degrees. We found her on care.com but she said she has not had much luck there either. Any other sites or agencies? Anyone on here looking for a nanny around that time? We're in the Fairfax suburbs so she's hoping to find something in that area.

sorry OP, you overpaid by a lot for Fairfax. I don't doubt that she is an amazing nanny, but in Fairfax you can get an amazing nanny for a lot less than $32/hr. If she wants to stay in the area, tell her to adjust her expectations down.

[Anonymous]

We paid our nanny $25 an hour for 2 kids in 2020 but she was working part time. That would have been difficult to pay for full time work. Even 4 years later, I would be hard pressed to pay $30 and above. Your nanny is looking for a rare opportunity and likely only one that would go to someone with a degree or that was teaching kids to be bilingual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hello, I am a recent (2022) graduate nurse with a bachelor’s degree living in Silver Spring. I and every one else in my class year makes less than $35/hr.

Among other skills, I can and have kept people alive when their heart stopped, I can detect when someone is about to stop breathing and intervene, and I can and have saved someone from choking more than once. I change complicated dressings and prevent serious infections every day. Apples to apples, I “care” for 2-5 people at once, monitoring them closely for 12 hours at a time.

Explain please why a kind, loving baby-sitter with a fraction of my education and hard baby-sitter skills should make more than a registered nurse?

As an experienced RN, your post is obnoxious. I'm assuming you're quite young so don't get the difference between a nanny and a babysitter. Finding a nanny who you can trust to help raise your child is worth gold. They keep your kid safe, they educate your kid, they know CPR and what to do if your kid chokes, they sometimes cook and help keep the house running while you work, and more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello, I am a recent (2022) graduate nurse with a bachelor’s degree living in Silver Spring. I and every one else in my class year makes less than $35/hr.

Among other skills, I can and have kept people alive when their heart stopped, I can detect when someone is about to stop breathing and intervene, and I can and have saved someone from choking more than once. I change complicated dressings and prevent serious infections every day. Apples to apples, I “care” for 2-5 people at once, monitoring them closely for 12 hours at a time.

Explain please why a kind, loving baby-sitter with a fraction of my education and hard baby-sitter skills should make more than a registered nurse?

As an experienced RN, your post is obnoxious. I'm assuming you're quite young so don't get the difference between a nanny and a babysitter. Finding a nanny who you can trust to help raise your child is worth gold. They keep your kid safe, they educate your kid, they know CPR and what to do if your kid chokes, they sometimes cook and help keep the house running while you work, and more.

Fine. Explain why an experienced nanny who knows CPR should make hundreds of dollars a week more than a licensed professional nurse. ?

I’m in my 40s, with grown children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello, I am a recent (2022) graduate nurse with a bachelor’s degree living in Silver Spring. I and every one else in my class year makes less than $35/hr.

Among other skills, I can and have kept people alive when their heart stopped, I can detect when someone is about to stop breathing and intervene, and I can and have saved someone from choking more than once. I change complicated dressings and prevent serious infections every day. Apples to apples, I “care” for 2-5 people at once, monitoring them closely for 12 hours at a time.

Explain please why a kind, loving baby-sitter with a fraction of my education and hard baby-sitter skills should make more than a registered nurse?

As an experienced RN, your post is obnoxious. I'm assuming you're quite young so don't get the difference between a nanny and a babysitter. Finding a nanny who you can trust to help raise your child is worth gold. They keep your kid safe, they educate your kid, they know CPR and what to do if your kid chokes, they sometimes cook and help keep the house running while you work, and more.

DP here
There was nothing obnoxious about her post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello, I am a recent (2022) graduate nurse with a bachelor’s degree living in Silver Spring. I and every one else in my class year makes less than $35/hr.

Among other skills, I can and have kept people alive when their heart stopped, I can detect when someone is about to stop breathing and intervene, and I can and have saved someone from choking more than once. I change complicated dressings and prevent serious infections every day. Apples to apples, I “care” for 2-5 people at once, monitoring them closely for 12 hours at a time.

Explain please why a kind, loving baby-sitter with a fraction of my education and hard baby-sitter skills should make more than a registered nurse?

As an experienced RN, your post is obnoxious. I'm assuming you're quite young so don't get the difference between a nanny and a babysitter. Finding a nanny who you can trust to help raise your child is worth gold. They keep your kid safe, they educate your kid, they know CPR and what to do if your kid chokes, they sometimes cook and help keep the house running while you work, and more.

Fine. Explain why an experienced nanny who knows CPR should make hundreds of dollars a week more than a licensed professional nurse. ?

I’m in my 40s, with grown children.

So I would never pay $35/hr for a nanny, however if nanny allows both parents to work and bill $300/hr (or whatever very highly paid people bill) than they may be paying for that peace of mind and the ability to 100% focus on work. I also agree that the nanny you love and trust is worth more to you than to a new family to whom they are a stranger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hello, I am a recent (2022) graduate nurse with a bachelor’s degree living in Silver Spring. I and every one else in my class year makes less than $35/hr.

Among other skills, I can and have kept people alive when their heart stopped, I can detect when someone is about to stop breathing and intervene, and I can and have saved someone from choking more than once. I change complicated dressings and prevent serious infections every day. Apples to apples, I “care” for 2-5 people at once, monitoring them closely for 12 hours at a time.

Explain please why a kind, loving baby-sitter with a fraction of my education and hard baby-sitter skills should make more than a registered nurse?

Not an obnoxious post at all, but Adventist Hospitals pay $35/hr to brand-new nurses. I’ve heard that Holy Cross pay has gone up as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm asking this seriously for my nanny who we will not be needing starting in September. Her current pay rate with us is $32/hr and she expressed concern over finding another job in that range. She said the agency she is with does not have many jobs in that pay range and the ones that do are in the city or prefer people with degrees. We found her on care.com but she said she has not had much luck there either. Any other sites or agencies? Anyone on here looking for a nanny around that time? We're in the Fairfax suburbs so she's hoping to find something in that area.

We lived in Vienna before we moved and had our nanny for over 40 hours every week (so she always got overtime), and paid her $35/hour plus phone stipend, IRA contributions, health insurance, etc. She may have a harder time finding something farther out from DC so tell her to look in Arlington or Alexandria?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hello, I am a recent (2022) graduate nurse with a bachelor’s degree living in Silver Spring. I and every one else in my class year makes less than $35/hr.

Among other skills, I can and have kept people alive when their heart stopped, I can detect when someone is about to stop breathing and intervene, and I can and have saved someone from choking more than once. I change complicated dressings and prevent serious infections every day. Apples to apples, I “care” for 2-5 people at once, monitoring them closely for 12 hours at a time.

Explain please why a kind, loving baby-sitter with a fraction of my education and hard baby-sitter skills should make more than a registered nurse?

As an experienced RN, your post is obnoxious. I'm assuming you're quite young so don't get the difference between a nanny and a babysitter. Finding a nanny who you can trust to help raise your child is worth gold. They keep your kid safe, they educate your kid, they know CPR and what to do if your kid chokes, they sometimes cook and help keep the house running while you work, and more.

Fine. Explain why an experienced nanny who knows CPR should make hundreds of dollars a week more than a licensed professional nurse. ?

I’m in my 40s, with grown children.

So I would never pay $35/hr for a nanny, however if nanny allows both parents to work and bill $300/hr (or whatever very highly paid people bill) than they may be paying for that peace of mind and the ability to 100% focus on work. I also agree that the nanny you love and trust is worth more to you than to a new family to whom they are a stranger.

I bill $1,200 an hour. It's 2023.