First time traveling with nanny -- how to pay?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a travel nanny my rates are different but when I was just traveling every now and then

I charged my regular guaranteed hours plus OT hrs for those hours outside of my regular hours plus a travel fee of $100/day away from home.

So if you are choosing to not take her Wednesday and Thursday. You still pay her the guaranteed hours per the contract you have. She can come in and do kid related things while your gone. Friday her hours start the time she arrives at the airport (I believe you said you where flying) til the time she gets in her own car home on Sunday.

So yes by Friday depending on the hours she’ll fall into OT either Friday night or Saturday morning. Anything outside her normal contract hours is paid at OT. Plus a travel fee daily.

You should also update your contract and add a travel clause.

If you’re paying legally you would be paying the weekend babysitting as OT which means you are either paying illegally on all pay or just the weekends either way you’re screwing your nanny and Shame on you


And yes you should be paying OT rates for her weekend babysitting you are having her do.

This is incorrect, legally, if that's what you insist on. Any hours above 40 hrs/week is OT, and per the IRS nannies must be paid as hourly workers. No exceptions to pay them a "salary". Overall, this should almost always work in favor of the nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When we travel with our nanny, we pay her for the hours she works (including travel time). We also pay her a per diem of $40 (this is what she wanted), which is in addition to any meals she eats with us or the kids.

She and I discussed several options, and this was her preference. I think it's pretty fair. She didn't (and I don't) think paying for sleeping time makes sense. Two different nannies have said the same. Also, if you are paying on the books you'd be in violation of labor laws very quickly on a longer trip...since you can't have people working 24 hours for extended periods of time.

If she is off duty while sleeping you don’t legally have to pay for that time. And it wouldn’t violate labor laws.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When we travel with our nanny, we pay her for the hours she works (including travel time). We also pay her a per diem of $40 (this is what she wanted), which is in addition to any meals she eats with us or the kids.

She and I discussed several options, and this was her preference. I think it's pretty fair. She didn't (and I don't) think paying for sleeping time makes sense. Two different nannies have said the same. Also, if you are paying on the books you'd be in violation of labor laws very quickly on a longer trip...since you can't have people working 24 hours for extended periods of time.

If she is off duty while sleeping you don’t legally have to pay for that time. And it wouldn’t violate labor laws.

If she’s sleeping in a room with the child? Yes, it’s illegal.

[Anonymous]

OP, if your nanny is live-in she is exempt from the OT requirements of FLSA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When we travel with our nanny, we pay her for the hours she works (including travel time). We also pay her a per diem of $40 (this is what she wanted), which is in addition to any meals she eats with us or the kids.

She and I discussed several options, and this was her preference. I think it's pretty fair. She didn't (and I don't) think paying for sleeping time makes sense. Two different nannies have said the same. Also, if you are paying on the books you'd be in violation of labor laws very quickly on a longer trip...since you can't have people working 24 hours for extended periods of time.

If she is off duty while sleeping you don’t legally have to pay for that time. And it wouldn’t violate labor laws.

If she’s sleeping in a room with the child? Yes, it’s illegal.

She's not. She's off duty. We get an extra room (or an AirBnB where she'd have her own room).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When we travel with our nanny, we pay her for the hours she works (including travel time). We also pay her a per diem of $40 (this is what she wanted), which is in addition to any meals she eats with us or the kids.

She and I discussed several options, and this was her preference. I think it's pretty fair. She didn't (and I don't) think paying for sleeping time makes sense. Two different nannies have said the same. Also, if you are paying on the books you'd be in violation of labor laws very quickly on a longer trip...since you can't have people working 24 hours for extended periods of time.

If she is off duty while sleeping you don’t legally have to pay for that time. And it wouldn’t violate labor laws.

If she’s sleeping in a room with the child? Yes, it’s illegal.

I said off duty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a travel nanny my rates are different but when I was just traveling every now and then

I charged my regular guaranteed hours plus OT hrs for those hours outside of my regular hours plus a travel fee of $100/day away from home.

So if you are choosing to not take her Wednesday and Thursday. You still pay her the guaranteed hours per the contract you have. She can come in and do kid related things while your gone. Friday her hours start the time she arrives at the airport (I believe you said you where flying) til the time she gets in her own car home on Sunday.

So yes by Friday depending on the hours she’ll fall into OT either Friday night or Saturday morning. Anything outside her normal contract hours is paid at OT. Plus a travel fee daily.

You should also update your contract and add a travel clause.

If you’re paying legally you would be paying the weekend babysitting as OT which means you are either paying illegally on all pay or just the weekends either way you’re screwing your nanny and Shame on you


And yes you should be paying OT rates for her weekend babysitting you are having her do.

This is incorrect, legally, if that's what you insist on. Any hours above 40 hrs/week is OT, and per the IRS nannies must be paid as hourly workers. No exceptions to pay them a "salary". Overall, this should almost always work in favor of the nanny.

What?? Contract hours are not salary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a travel nanny my rates are different but when I was just traveling every now and then

I charged my regular guaranteed hours plus OT hrs for those hours outside of my regular hours plus a travel fee of $100/day away from home.

So if you are choosing to not take her Wednesday and Thursday. You still pay her the guaranteed hours per the contract you have. She can come in and do kid related things while your gone. Friday her hours start the time she arrives at the airport (I believe you said you where flying) til the time she gets in her own car home on Sunday.

So yes by Friday depending on the hours she’ll fall into OT either Friday night or Saturday morning. Anything outside her normal contract hours is paid at OT. Plus a travel fee daily.

You should also update your contract and add a travel clause.

If you’re paying legally you would be paying the weekend babysitting as OT which means you are either paying illegally on all pay or just the weekends either way you’re screwing your nanny and Shame on you


And yes you should be paying OT rates for her weekend babysitting you are having her do.

This is incorrect, legally, if that's what you insist on. Any hours above 40 hrs/week is OT, and per the IRS nannies must be paid as hourly workers. No exceptions to pay them a "salary". Overall, this should almost always work in favor of the nanny.

What?? Contract hours are not salary

And not every state it’s 40 hrs. We don’t know where OP is. California is after 9 hrs daily

[Anonymous]

first asked the nanny if she is interested. Lay out all the requirements and then propose something reasonable and ask her if it works for her.

[Anonymous]

Bless you nannies that think you are entitled to pay while sleeping in your hotel room, off duty, while traveling with a family. I think y’all are so vocal on this post because you need to convince families of why you need more, more, more. You are doing a job we all literally did in high school, which requires no formal training and no education. All us parents do the exact same thing you do, and we do it while working also holding down a “real” job. We wipe our children’s butts and make Mac and cheese too, the only difference is we do it while also balancing conference calls, deadlines, clients and managing our nannies. Please, you could never.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bless you nannies that think you are entitled to pay while sleeping in your hotel room, off duty, while traveling with a family. I think y’all are so vocal on this post because you need to convince families of why you need more, more, more. You are doing a job we all literally did in high school, which requires no formal training and no education. All us parents do the exact same thing you do, and we do it while working also holding down a “real” job. We wipe our children’s butts and make Mac and cheese too, the only difference is we do it while also balancing conference calls, deadlines, clients and managing our nannies. Please, you could never.

Awesome! Then take care of your own kid. Nobody’s forcing you to hire a nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When we travel with our nanny, we pay her for the hours she works (including travel time). We also pay her a per diem of $40 (this is what she wanted), which is in addition to any meals she eats with us or the kids.

She and I discussed several options, and this was her preference. I think it's pretty fair. She didn't (and I don't) think paying for sleeping time makes sense. Two different nannies have said the same. Also, if you are paying on the books you'd be in violation of labor laws very quickly on a longer trip...since you can't have people working 24 hours for extended periods of time.

If she is off duty while sleeping you don’t legally have to pay for that time. And it wouldn’t violate labor laws.

If she’s sleeping in a room with the child? Yes, it’s illegal.

She already said she would have her own room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bless you nannies that think you are entitled to pay while sleeping in your hotel room, off duty, while traveling with a family. I think y’all are so vocal on this post because you need to convince families of why you need more, more, more. You are doing a job we all literally did in high school, which requires no formal training and no education. All us parents do the exact same thing you do, and we do it while working also holding down a “real” job. We wipe our children’s butts and make Mac and cheese too, the only difference is we do it while also balancing conference calls, deadlines, clients and managing our nannies. Please, you could never.

Awesome! Then take care of your own kid. Nobody’s forcing you to hire a nanny.

Exactly. Here they want to short change the most important person watching their child. Yet they are too lazy to do the job they should be doing themselves.

These poor kids with such horrible parents!

[Anonymous]

If she really is a time traveling nanny tell her you paid her yesterday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bless you nannies that think you are entitled to pay while sleeping in your hotel room, off duty, while traveling with a family. I think y’all are so vocal on this post because you need to convince families of why you need more, more, more. You are doing a job we all literally did in high school, which requires no formal training and no education. All us parents do the exact same thing you do, and we do it while working also holding down a “real” job. We wipe our children’s butts and make Mac and cheese too, the only difference is we do it while also balancing conference calls, deadlines, clients and managing our nannies. Please, you could never.

Former nanny and now mom here- if I’m not in my bed at home, I consider that working. I will happily pay a daily/overnight rate for the travel. It’s not like she’s on a girls trip with her friends and just so happens to be available to babysit my kids during the day. She’s alone, in a strange place, helping us out.