2023 - Going rate for nanny share

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s different and more difficult to care for two same age kids than two different age siblings. I nannied in my 20s. I was paid $20 an hour 15 years ago, but when I took care of two babies from different families at the same time my rate was $30. This was just part-time, not a FT nanny share. It was very easy to take care of one toddler, or a baby and a 2 or 3 year old. The two babies/young toddlers at the same time was challenging. Then I got married and pregnant with twins. Go fig.

I'm the PP who is moving to a nanny share at $28 per hour.

Just wanted to note that this view, while it makes sense and I can understand where you're coming from, is not universal. One thing our nanny was clear about is that she wanted a similar aged kid to mine. That makes sense to me - it's easy to get two 9 month olds or two 18 month olds or two 2.5 year olds on the same schedule. But I found as a parent that the time when I had one kid on two naps and one kid on one nap was the hardest for coordinating things like time at the playground. So not all nannies will agree with you on this.

[Anonymous]

We pay $28 an hour, plus overtime at 1.5x, on the books for two kids. We have 45 hours guaranteed, regardless of whether she works all of those hours. In our search, we found that the going rate was between $27-30 an hour in DC.

[Anonymous]

PP, the "going rate" depends on what you and the nanny you liked would agree upon. The rate you quote suggests that you are easily satisfied.

[Anonymous]

I was looking at White House Nannies website just now. Their rate for 1-2 kids (one family) went up from 6 months ago and is $30-35 per hr, so nannies are probably looking at their website too to see the pay rate standards for the area. Their rates are usually what the average market is. The demand is higher than supply, it seems...

[Anonymous]

$15 per hour per family

[Anonymous]

dream on, pp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was looking at White House Nannies website just now. Their rate for 1-2 kids (one family) went up from 6 months ago and is $30-35 per hr, so nannies are probably looking at their website too to see the pay rate standards for the area. Their rates are usually what the average market is. The demand is higher than supply, it seems...

Huh?

I just checked their website:

On average, nannies in the DC area charge $20-$25/hour – since COVID, we’ve seen the market shift to $25-30/hr due to the highly competitive nature of the market.

Nanny Shares $23-25/hour – since COVID, we’ve seen the market shift to $25-30/hr due to the highly competitive nature of the market.

[Anonymous]

obviously, they did not change the text. I was not even looking at that. If you look at the nanny jobs, this is what I did, you see the range is actually 30-35 for either one or 2 kids. Health benefits, travel, lots and lots of perks.

[Anonymous]

I would never pay more than $30 an hour to any nanny just starting with me. We love our nanny, but there are so many available people now - I could find someone else in a heartbeat, and you don’t know who is good till they have been with you a bit.

Any nanny asking for $30 in a nanny share is a scam artist and I’d run, not walk away.

We throw random thousands our nanny’s way after really hard quarters, etc - but that’s at our discretion, not built into the guaranteed rate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP, the "going rate" depends on what you and the nanny you liked would agree upon. The rate you quote suggests that you are easily satisfied.

Who is this troll?

[Anonymous]

A nanny with 2 infants I spoke to in the park, gets $40 an hr. I am in MoCo. She is former infant room teacher of many years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A nanny with 2 infants I spoke to in the park, gets $40 an hr. I am in MoCo. She is former infant room teacher of many years.

Lol she’s lying and/or you’re lying. No one who pays $40/hour is tolerating a share.

And no one pays $40/hour.

[Anonymous]

What do you mean by "tolerating" a share? And what do you mean that nobody "who pays $40"? You seem to have reading comprehension issues since obviously she means that each family pays half, so nobody pays $40.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you mean by "tolerating" a share? And what do you mean that nobody "who pays $40"? You seem to have reading comprehension issues since obviously she means that each family pays half, so nobody pays $40.

If you can pay $20, you can get your own nanny. Why would you put up with a share?

No one, and I mean literally no nanny, makes $40 for a nanny share. That's a joke.

[Anonymous]

What is the going rate for a nanny for one child if these are the rates for a share?