Nanny severance

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:we are after many years, letting our nanny go. we let her know in august. she has been working very light hours since then- about 2 hours a day? picking up one of the kids and getting her home for dinner at 5. but out of respect and loyalty i have kept her salary at full. even through pandemic when she wasn't working. Our daughter is 8 and our son is almost 5.


she will stop working end of year. i have offered to pay her insurance through june and was going to offer 3 months salary as severance. She just emailed me and said “I do know that severance is 2 to 4 months for every year worked.” Which in her case would be over $100,000. I don’t have that kind of money and it seems like a lot to me.

Is this what you give your nannies?

Severance is typically one week per year worked. Three months is extremely generous, since you’ve clearly had her for a maximum of 8.5 years.

[Anonymous]

Did you tell her that you were thinking about three months severance, on top of six months of health insurance? She is unbelievably greedy to counter with 2-4 months per year of service. I think she has gotten spoiled with only working 2 hrs a day plus being off during the pandemic (how much time was that?). Smh

[Anonymous]

Now you know, OP.
No good deed goes unpunished.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two weeks severance pay is standard. If you really thought she did an amazing job, give her a month. Certainly not "2-4 months pay for every year worked". You're already going above and beyond with the insurance. You've also kept her at full salary when you could've reduced pay.

No, one month is standard. But certainly not a month for every year worked. I have never heard of that!
- a nanny

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:we are after many years, letting our nanny go. we let her know in august. she has been working very light hours since then- about 2 hours a day? picking up one of the kids and getting her home for dinner at 5. but out of respect and loyalty i have kept her salary at full. even through pandemic when she wasn't working. Our daughter is 8 and our son is almost 5.


she will stop working end of year. i have offered to pay her insurance through june and was going to offer 3 months salary as severance. She just emailed me and said “I do know that severance is 2 to 4 months for every year worked.” Which in her case would be over $100,000. I don’t have that kind of money and it seems like a lot to me.

Is this what you give your nannies?

One month.

[Anonymous]

Most likely hasn't been looking for a job because full time pay for part time work which is fine.
I am assuming typo with months vs weeks and her getting bad advice.
You can address it nicely or just ignore it. One month of pay sounds good to me.

[Anonymous]

I’m curious as to what happened.