Starting rate for six day a week nanny schedule

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Anonymous wrote:You need to pay more for that terrible schedule.

It’s the perfect schedule for me! And $40 an hour plus full healthcare insurance and a leased car is pretty fricking good!

The op is offering $28-30/hr in her original post. You would do it for that?

$40 for 30 hours plus healthcare and a car and pastries sounds pretty damn good to me! I’m an early bird by nature.

All I can eat pastries? Sign me up! The hours sound decent (that 6th day is tough sell).

Sooooo, don’t sign you up!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hi!

I’m fairly sure we’ll need to start our (hopefully) long term nanny at $28 to $30 an hour. We want an English-speaking (native), college graduate with some preschool teaching and newborn experience for our new baby. We are willing to pay full healthcare insurance coverage as well.

My question is about an unconventional six day schedule: we need a nanny for just five hours a day, six days a week. We would be happy to guarantee forty hours, however, by adding a couple hours during the work week. The days are Tuesday thru Sunday but just five morning hours a day on the weekends. We’re thinking 6 to 11 AM or 7 to 12. Once a month, my mother can come down and care for the baby to give the nanny a paid weekend off as well as most major holidays.

Should we offer more per hour for this schedule? Or are the other perks sufficient?

Thank you for any advice.

Ridiculous. People need time to relax and your schedule spells burn out in three months! Plus, it may be only 5 hours for six days but you need to sweeten the pot with OT for Saturday. Normal people like to be with their families on weekends not taking care of somebody else's kids.

30 hours a week spells burn out to you ?

Jesus… The lack of character and stamina of some of you is truly laughable.

My kids are generally sleeping until nine or ten on weekends. No one wants to be with them before noon. If I were a nanny, I would take this job in a heartbeat.

Then you do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi!

I’m fairly sure we’ll need to start our (hopefully) long term nanny at $28 to $30 an hour. We want an English-speaking (native), college graduate with some preschool teaching and newborn experience for our new baby. We are willing to pay full healthcare insurance coverage as well.

My question is about an unconventional six day schedule: we need a nanny for just five hours a day, six days a week. We would be happy to guarantee forty hours, however, by adding a couple hours during the work week. The days are Tuesday thru Sunday but just five morning hours a day on the weekends. We’re thinking 6 to 11 AM or 7 to 12. Once a month, my mother can come down and care for the baby to give the nanny a paid weekend off as well as most major holidays.

Should we offer more per hour for this schedule? Or are the other perks sufficient?

Thank you for any advice.

Ridiculous. People need time to relax and your schedule spells burn out in three months! Plus, it may be only 5 hours for six days but you need to sweeten the pot with OT for Saturday. Normal people like to be with their families on weekends not taking care of somebody else's kids.

30 hours a week spells burn out to you ?

Jesus… The lack of character and stamina of some of you is truly laughable.

My kids are generally sleeping until nine or ten on weekends. No one wants to be with them before noon. If I were a nanny, I would take this job in a heartbeat.

No, you wouldn’t, you wouldn’t work six days a week with it being 5 hours a day. That’s just a waste.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know why everyone’s being so harsh. These are basically the hours my sister carefully arranged with her office job when her daughter was a baby and she and her husband were splitting hours to avoid having to pay childcare (he worked afternoons and evenings). Very early hours are an asset to some families.

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I would totally be fine with this kind of schedule at $28/hour if the weekend day wasn't added. Ive

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why everyone’s being so harsh. These are basically the hours my sister carefully arranged with her office job when her daughter was a baby and she and her husband were splitting hours to avoid having to pay childcare (he worked afternoons and evenings). Very early hours are an asset to some families.

Did your sister have her nanny come in 6 days a week? Which you wouldn’t do yourself

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would totally be fine with this kind of schedule at $28/hour if the weekend day wasn't added. Ive

Which is why at least one poster said the pay needs to go up.

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Anonymous wrote:I think you should advertise and see how it goes, adjust if you aren't getting nibbles. I agree that the schedule will appeal to some people. You might also consider removing Sundays and hiring separately for that. You might be able to get a good one-off sitter for that morning and it would free up your nanny to go to church. (I think your nanny pool is likely to be older and religious). Or just to have a weekend day free.

For one day, 6-11, a good high school or college student would be fine.

Church never would have occurred to me. I know no one who goes to church! Not one person young or old.

Yeah, it's not really a thing anymore. This isn't something I'd worry much about, OP.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know why everyone’s being so harsh. These are basically the hours my sister carefully arranged with her office job when her daughter was a baby and she and her husband were splitting hours to avoid having to pay childcare (he worked afternoons and evenings). Very early hours are an asset to some families.

Did your sister have her nanny come in 6 days a week? Which you wouldn’t do yourself

???

No, what I said was that my sister specifically and purposefully sought out a job with the hours OP is offering. Doing so allowed her and her husband to not have to pay for childcare, so obviously she didn’t have a nanny. Sure it’s not hours I would want to work but everyone’s different and I feel like OP might find a taker, especially if she offers health insurance and $40/hour as was discussed upthread. As with all jobs, the key is to be upfront in the job posting so all of you people who apparently hate mornings and/or working six short days instead of five long ones don’t have to apply.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi!

I’m fairly sure we’ll need to start our (hopefully) long term nanny at $28 to $30 an hour. We want an English-speaking (native), college graduate with some preschool teaching and newborn experience for our new baby. We are willing to pay full healthcare insurance coverage as well.

My question is about an unconventional six day schedule: we need a nanny for just five hours a day, six days a week. We would be happy to guarantee forty hours, however, by adding a couple hours during the work week. The days are Tuesday thru Sunday but just five morning hours a day on the weekends. We’re thinking 6 to 11 AM or 7 to 12. Once a month, my mother can come down and care for the baby to give the nanny a paid weekend off as well as most major holidays.

Should we offer more per hour for this schedule? Or are the other perks sufficient?

Thank you for any advice.

Ridiculous. People need time to relax and your schedule spells burn out in three months! Plus, it may be only 5 hours for six days but you need to sweeten the pot with OT for Saturday. Normal people like to be with their families on weekends not taking care of somebody else's kids.

30 hours a week spells burn out to you ?

Jesus… The lack of character and stamina of some of you is truly laughable.

My kids are generally sleeping until nine or ten on weekends. No one wants to be with them before noon. If I were a nanny, I would take this job in a heartbeat.

No, you wouldn’t, you wouldn’t work six days a week with it being 5 hours a day. That’s just a waste.

Not at all! I’m strong and healthy. I would take this job, with car and healthcare covered, and then have a nice break and do one of those after school nanny gigs (also high paying). Easily raking in a lot of money to buy a house. Then I’d just keep the morning job with the chefs.

Where are you located, OP?

[Anonymous]

OP again. 40 hours at $30 is the same for us as $40 an hour at 30 hours. We’d definitely be happy to do that.

So $40 an hour, five hours a day Tuesday thru Sunday, 6/7AM to 11AM/12PM. A leased car and car insurance for nanny personal and eventually work use; full healthcare coverage; two weeks off for vacation plus one weekend off a month. And all the pastries she wants.

Sound good now?

[Anonymous]

Yes it sounds great, I'd love a sched like that.

[Anonymous]

Have a very long backup care list for when weekends start to not work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP again. 40 hours at $30 is the same for us as $40 an hour at 30 hours. We’d definitely be happy to do that.

So $40 an hour, five hours a day Tuesday thru Sunday, 6/7AM to 11AM/12PM. A leased car and car insurance for nanny personal and eventually work use; full healthcare coverage; two weeks off for vacation plus one weekend off a month. And all the pastries she wants.

Sound good now?

Not to me but wish you luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP again. 40 hours at $30 is the same for us as $40 an hour at 30 hours. We’d definitely be happy to do that.

So $40 an hour, five hours a day Tuesday thru Sunday, 6/7AM to 11AM/12PM. A leased car and car insurance for nanny personal and eventually work use; full healthcare coverage; two weeks off for vacation plus one weekend off a month. And all the pastries she wants.

Sound good now?

Nope, you want someone 6 days a week. Troll poster you are.