Nanny Cost?

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Anonymous wrote:You can probably find someone good for $17-$20/hr for someone with a decent amount of experience. Probably won't be college educated but honestly you don't need that. Just someone loving and caring.

Probably someone without working papers, at that price.

We pay 18 and have good person. Have in the past too. We have also used more than on agency to hire and told 17-20 is the norm.

How many kids and what age? That is the key question here. Also, sometimes moms are overly demanding and want the nanny to mow the 2 acre lawn for $10./hour. I have seen it with my own eyes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can probably find someone good for $17-$20/hr for someone with a decent amount of experience. Probably won't be college educated but honestly you don't need that. Just someone loving and caring.

Probably someone without working papers, at that price.

This is incorrect. Our nanny is $15/hour and we pay taxes and give her 2 weeks paid vacation and one week sick leave. Shes legal resident with 25 years of experience. She doesn't drive, so OP might pay more for driving. Shes amazing

Hold up, you hired someone with 25 yrs of experience for $15/hr. Does that even sound like a smart person or a person with actual experience. Was she working for $5/hr when she started working as a nanny?!

Crickets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can probably find someone good for $17-$20/hr for someone with a decent amount of experience. Probably won't be college educated but honestly you don't need that. Just someone loving and caring.

Probably someone without working papers, at that price.

This is incorrect. Our nanny is $15/hour and we pay taxes and give her 2 weeks paid vacation and one week sick leave. Shes legal resident with 25 years of experience. She doesn't drive, so OP might pay more for driving. Shes amazing

Liar. I don’t think any decent parent here believes your story.

[Anonymous]

OP - daycare would be significantly less expensive than a FT nanny. Even when we did a nanny share (each paying $11/hr), it worked out to ~$2500/month each. We were in DC and paid on the books and used a payroll service in case helpful.

Of course it depends on where you live and your expectations, but in DC anyway I think $21/22 an hour is the least you can expect to pay for an experienced nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can probably find someone good for $17-$20/hr for someone with a decent amount of experience. Probably won't be college educated but honestly you don't need that. Just someone loving and caring.

Probably someone without working papers, at that price.

This is incorrect. Our nanny is $15/hour and we pay taxes and give her 2 weeks paid vacation and one week sick leave. Shes legal resident with 25 years of experience. She doesn't drive, so OP might pay more for driving. Shes amazing

Liar. I don’t think any decent parent here believes your story.

Sorry that doesn't fit your world view. We also hired our amazing nanny at $15/hour with 3 weeks vacation and unlimited sick leave, although we pay her substantially more now that she's been with us for 7 years. She's a US citizen and a good driver.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can probably find someone good for $17-$20/hr for someone with a decent amount of experience. Probably won't be college educated but honestly you don't need that. Just someone loving and caring.

Probably someone without working papers, at that price.

This is incorrect. Our nanny is $15/hour and we pay taxes and give her 2 weeks paid vacation and one week sick leave. Shes legal resident with 25 years of experience. She doesn't drive, so OP might pay more for driving. Shes amazing

Liar. I don’t think any decent parent here believes your story.

Sorry that doesn't fit your world view. We also hired our amazing nanny at $15/hour with 3 weeks vacation and unlimited sick leave, although we pay her substantially more now that she's been with us for 7 years. She's a US citizen and a good driver.

This isn't a good place to get a good sense of market prices, because a subset of vocal nannies will start piping up that anyone paying less than 25$/hr must be hiring illegal, abusive unprofessional nannies. But that's not the case. You can check one of the many boards that offers childcare to get a better sense of prices in your area.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can probably find someone good for $17-$20/hr for someone with a decent amount of experience. Probably won't be college educated but honestly you don't need that. Just someone loving and caring.

Probably someone without working papers, at that price.

This is incorrect. Our nanny is $15/hour and we pay taxes and give her 2 weeks paid vacation and one week sick leave. Shes legal resident with 25 years of experience. She doesn't drive, so OP might pay more for driving. Shes amazing

Liar. I don’t think any decent parent here believes your story.

Sorry that doesn't fit your world view. We also hired our amazing nanny at $15/hour with 3 weeks vacation and unlimited sick leave, although we pay her substantially more now that she's been with us for 7 years. She's a US citizen and a good driver.

This isn't a good place to get a good sense of market prices, because a subset of vocal nannies will start piping up that anyone paying less than 25$/hr must be hiring illegal, abusive unprofessional nannies. But that's not the case. You can check one of the many boards that offers childcare to get a better sense of prices in your area.

I agree this isn’t a good place to get prices for nannies bc parents aren’t going to be honest about the nannies they hire. Also the families quoting market rate have a different budget and expectation than most families that actually attract qualified nannies. You don’t have to spend $25/hr on a nanny but there is no qualified or smart nanny out there making $15/hr happily. Why would an adult work for that when they can make more if they are actually qualified. Obviously, something about their background is causing them not to get hired at a higher price rate.