Nannies at 40k gross/year

[Anonymous]

Nanny-ing seems like physically and mentally hard work. Sitting at a computer at a non-profit (which isn't too far off a description from my job)... not so much. Why shouldn't it be compensated?

[Anonymous]

Our nanny makes $42K in straight salary, but we also pay her health insurance, vacation and sick pay, and of course overtime if required. That's only about $16 an hour. She works a 50 hour week usually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Thank you!!!!

Why "thank you"?

[Anonymous]

Most of those mid 40s entry level positions at non-profits/NGOs have health insurance & retirement benefits. So the gross salary =/= the gross cost to the employer.

[Anonymous]

Finding a nanny who is willing to work "on the books" and is legal is actually extremely hard. It took me months to find one. Taking care of babies and toddlers is physically draining and it takes a lof of patience. I have no issue with nannies making that much!

[Anonymous]

30K-36K is more realistic than 40 K. Employers probably still budget for close to 40K because you need to include about 10% for employer (not employee withholding) taxes, unemployment, worker comp, any costs for temporary services or camp when the nanny goes on vacation for a week, activity or class fees, mileage etc but 40K is not the nanny's gross annual salary.

I do agree with one of the PP that alot of moms are being completely ripped off paying high rates and getting mediocre services from their nanny. Some moms fall for the idea that if they are paying alot then their nanny must be great and they want to believe that their nanny is great. Many nannies milk this for everything they can and are great manipulators. Often those nannies are doing nothing all day, chatting on their phones, surfing the web during nap time and only being great at being a good con artist.

Nannyshares are the worst deals. The really amazing nannies who might actually be worth $18 an hour don't want a nanny share because they can compete for the few high rate single family jobs and nannyshares usually are not long term situations. Nannyshares attract the run of the mill nannies looking for more money. The families sharing get a half assed nanny but pay a big premium for it once again assuming if a nanny is paid more she must be good. So not true with nannies.

[Anonymous]

Way to generalize and make assumptions, PP.

I'll use restraint and not make assumptions about your intelligence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Way to generalize and make assumptions, PP.

I'll use restraint and not make assumptions about your intelligence.

[Anonymous]

There is a nanny fantasyland going on all the time on DCUrban Mom.

Nannies make 40K a year but are expected to do no work.
Nannies are too delicate to pay their own taxes. You should pay them all for her or give her cash under the table.
If the kids nap for 4 hours and the nanny then she is entitled to 4 hours of napping and web surfing.
When the kids go to preschool, she gets still gets a 10% raise and gets away with claiming to organize spring/summer and fall/winter clothes in the closets for 15 hours a week. Her employer never notices that this takes maybe 1 hour twice a year.
Two weeks vacation and a few sick days is not enough. She gets unlimted sick leave. She gets every Friday off during the summer. She gets every holiday beyond the ones in her contract. If she sees a snowflake she gets a paid day off.
She gets an extra paid week off when she gives you her vacation dates, you book tickets to go somewhere and then she tells you the day before that she is not going.
She is entitled to do whatever she wants regardless of what you ask or she agreed to in advance. No offense is something she should ever be fired for with a nanny job.
She does the bare minimum but expects a huge bonus just for her existence.
When the child is an infant, the employer is expected to provide a car or reimburse for gas mileage so the nanny can take the baby on age inappropriate playdates while the nanny socializes with other nannies. When the child is old enough to pick their playdates, the nanny must be paid double to host a playdate since it is now actually a playdate and not a nanny social outing.
Since it is so hard to work 5 days a week or even 4 days a week, your nanny is entitled to run all her errands, shopping, and mall visits while she is watching your child.
If you have a second child you are expected to blow up her salary beyond her wildest dreams.
If the nanny has a baby you are expected to allow her to bring the child and just ignore that your child is getting less care. You are now in a nannyshare but because she is a nanny you get to pay her half of the care too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a nanny fantasyland going on all the time on DCUrban Mom.

Nannies make 40K a year but are expected to do no work.
Nannies are too delicate to pay their own taxes. You should pay them all for her or give her cash under the table.
If the kids nap for 4 hours and the nanny then she is entitled to 4 hours of napping and web surfing.
When the kids go to preschool, she gets still gets a 10% raise and gets away with claiming to organize spring/summer and fall/winter clothes in the closets for 15 hours a week. Her employer never notices that this takes maybe 1 hour twice a year.
Two weeks vacation and a few sick days is not enough. She gets unlimted sick leave. She gets every Friday off during the summer. She gets every holiday beyond the ones in her contract. If she sees a snowflake she gets a paid day off.
She gets an extra paid week off when she gives you her vacation dates, you book tickets to go somewhere and then she tells you the day before that she is not going.
She is entitled to do whatever she wants regardless of what you ask or she agreed to in advance. No offense is something she should ever be fired for with a nanny job.
She does the bare minimum but expects a huge bonus just for her existence.
When the child is an infant, the employer is expected to provide a car or reimburse for gas mileage so the nanny can take the baby on age inappropriate playdates while the nanny socializes with other nannies. When the child is old enough to pick their playdates, the nanny must be paid double to host a playdate since it is now actually a playdate and not a nanny social outing.
Since it is so hard to work 5 days a week or even 4 days a week, your nanny is entitled to run all her errands, shopping, and mall visits while she is watching your child.
If you have a second child you are expected to blow up her salary beyond her wildest dreams.
If the nanny has a baby you are expected to allow her to bring the child and just ignore that your child is getting less care. You are now in a nannyshare but because she is a nanny you get to pay her half of the care too.

Yikes, it sounds like you have been really burned.

[Anonymous]

11:52, have you ever even employed a nanny? You're not talking about things in the realm of reality.

[Anonymous]

people that think $40k is a lot need to get out their calculators. We pay our nanny $16/hour average, on the books - not a crazy salary, at least close in to the city. She works 47.5 hours/week, because we each work 9 hour days and commute (we stagger our hours). That's $39,520. We also make a $200/month cash contribution to health care. If we provided insurance directly that wouldn't be considered part of her gross, but since it's cash many people do, and that gets her over the $40k mark, although with none of the benefits you might get at an office job with that salary (full health care, short or long term disability insurance, FMLA protection, etc).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:11:52, have you ever even employed a nanny? You're not talking about things in the realm of reality.

Agreed. No way she ever actually employed a nanny. She's just posting an exaggerated version of every complaint on here.

[Anonymous]

Being a nanny is extremely difficult work. Just read all the threads by DCUM mothers and how impossible most of them are. The job creep of cleaning their houses, washing their clother. Personally, I do not know why anyone would want to be a nanny for less than $100,000/yr. Squaling brats, imperious mothers, not in a million years.

[Anonymous]

I had a Mary Poppins who made just shy of $40k, in a share. I would have dearly loved to pay her more, because she was just so wonderful and hardworking. The house always sparkled, the kids were so happy with her, and she had endless energy. I sure as hell wouldn't do that job for $40k. Or $60k, for that matter.

$40k is nothing in this town. It makes me very sad that a warm, active, fun childcare provider just squeaks by, while certain other professions and the kinds of people who go into them make more money in a week than I could spend in a year.