Annual Nanny Raise Question

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you can afford $25 now, you’ll be able to afford $30 in five years as your and DH’s salaries will increase with COL and merit increases.

And in all honesty, $25 an hour for all good nannies do for your children is a bargain in my book.

That’s not a given.

Man, seriously. In fact my salary has gone down in the past 3 years without my hours changing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you can afford $25 now, you’ll be able to afford $30 in five years as your and DH’s salaries will increase with COL and merit increases.

And in all honesty, $25 an hour for all good nannies do for your children is a bargain in my book.

That’s not a given.

Man, seriously. In fact my salary has gone down in the past 3 years without my hours changing.

Ouch. I’m sorry. But that isn’t common.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If good English grammar, vocabulary and the ability to read to your child in English are important to you than $25 is the going rate.

Yes, you do need to give COL raises annually plus merit. Same as your job, no doubt.

That said, I do know quite a few wonderful and loving Spanish speaking nannies who are less expensive.

For us the inability to read to our child and no text messaging made us choose a $25 an hour nanny two and a half years ago.

After taxes, bonuses and insurance etc, how much does that work out to all in for a year?

[Anonymous]

Wait this is for two kids. Yes $25 an hour is actually the best you will get. Most I know who are doing nanny shares or multiple kids are paying $26-30 an hour.

If you can't afford $25 with annual increases, I'm not sure you can afford a nanny.

Could you do daycare instead?

[Anonymous]

Yep. We paid $25 per hour for 1 child. It was such a luxury. She came while I was still getting ready for work. I didn't need to have my kid dressed and out the door with me. She also did all of his laundry and sheets. This ended when he went to preschool.

[Anonymous]

We just hired a full nanny for one infant starting her at $23 an hour, she is very good. We offered her a $1 raise every 6 months, but I also told her my older kids went to preschool at 18 months, I would expect to send our baby pretty early to preschool school too. It is very rare a nanny can be with a family for 5 years, something always happens. With my order twins, we had 4 different nannies from infant to 18 months. I hope our current nanny will stay with us for 18 months, so I made a more attractive offer of an raise every 6 months.