My wife’s friend makes $100,000 as a nanny

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Anonymous wrote:You seem like you've had your head buried in the sand. Taking care of small children is hard.

OP here. No one's saying taking care of kids is easy. But if I recall correctly, the median income for PhD holders nationwide is also around $100K, so it's crazy to me that someone with no training or experience can just wake up one day and start earning that. DCUM seems to live in a bubble where everyone is a $300K/year lawyer and doesn't realize that $100K is actually a hell of a lot of money.

I think plumbers and electricians also make a lot of money.

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Anonymous wrote:It certainly beats teacher salary

Pension, benefits for teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:I really want to see OP take this job and see how he’s feeling after a month.

I don't need the job, thanks. I make $180K after 20 years of experience. But if you'd told me that was an option in my 20s, when I was struggling to get a foothold, I would have done it in a heartbeat.

Yeah, but no one would have hired you.

+1 this looks easier than it is. You need intuition and good judgment, foreseeing pitfalls ect

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You seem like you've had your head buried in the sand. Taking care of small children is hard.

OP here. No one's saying taking care of kids is easy. But if I recall correctly, the median income for PhD holders nationwide is also around $100K, so it's crazy to me that someone with no training or experience can just wake up one day and start earning that. DCUM seems to live in a bubble where everyone is a $300K/year lawyer and doesn't realize that $100K is actually a hell of a lot of money.

I think plumbers and electricians also make a lot of money.

But she does has training and experience as a mother herself.

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Anonymous wrote:I recently met a woman who was “retired” at 25. She was a nanny and the dads friend noticed and married her. Dads friend owns a petroleum drilling company. Not bad for a sweet college grad. Now she is “retired” and serves on not for profit boards.

A man is not a plan. It’s highly likely that he’ll leave her in ten years.

Depends on the marriage contract.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You seem like you've had your head buried in the sand. Taking care of small children is hard.

OP here. No one's saying taking care of kids is easy. But if I recall correctly, the median income for PhD holders nationwide is also around $100K, so it's crazy to me that someone with no training or experience can just wake up one day and start earning that. DCUM seems to live in a bubble where everyone is a $300K/year lawyer and doesn't realize that $100K is actually a hell of a lot of money.

I think plumbers and electricians also make a lot of money.

Plumbers and electricians are highly-skilled workers; electricians, in particular, can be killed if they don't know what they're doing. No one is waking up one day, hanging a shingle, and starting at those jobs at $100K+.

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Anonymous wrote:I was absolutely floored to hear this. She recently went through a divorce and had been out of the workforce for 15 to 20 years. She does not have a college degree as far as I know.

She now works about 45 hours a week earning $47.50 per hour taking care of one kid. Apparently, the kid is difficult, which is why the family feels the need to pay such a high rate. I don’t know if there are benefits, but 45 x $47.50 per hour alone works out to north of $100K per year.

The most surprising thing is that she refuses to do any light cleaning or even throw a load of laundry in the washer when the kid is resting or there’s downtime. She apparently quit working for another family who asked her to do that.

So $100K+ with no degree, minimal or no experience, and you can be very picky about what tasks you will and will not do? Is this for real? If I had a daughter, I would 100% suggest she consider this as a career unless she had outstanding academic credentials or a strong interest in a potentially high-paying field. WTF?

Myob. Your friend is not a maid. She deserves a break. Also you are sexist if you would only suggest your dd doing this job.

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Anonymous wrote:I was absolutely floored to hear this. She recently went through a divorce and had been out of the workforce for 15 to 20 years. She does not have a college degree as far as I know.

She now works about 45 hours a week earning $47.50 per hour taking care of one kid. Apparently, the kid is difficult, which is why the family feels the need to pay such a high rate. I don’t know if there are benefits, but 45 x $47.50 per hour alone works out to north of $100K per year.

The most surprising thing is that she refuses to do any light cleaning or even throw a load of laundry in the washer when the kid is resting or there’s downtime. She apparently quit working for another family who asked her to do that.

So $100K+ with no degree, minimal or no experience, and you can be very picky about what tasks you will and will not do? Is this for real? If I had a daughter, I would 100% suggest she consider this as a career unless she had outstanding academic credentials or a strong interest in a potentially high-paying field. WTF?

OP, you sound like a piece of work, quite frankly. First of all, this is not the typical rate most nannies earn. You're focusing on only one case that this particular nanny earns so much; in reality, most experienced nannies would typically make $30-35/hr taking care of multiple kids. Being a nanny is not an easy job. Also, why should nanny do household duties? That's typically not something nannies are expected to do. I am a former Au Pair and know a lot of about childcare.

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Anonymous wrote:It certainly beats teacher salary

Pension, benefits for teachers.

Many (most) teachers won’t last long enough to see those pensions.

I’d take hourly overtime any day over a pension I’ll never see.

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Anonymous wrote:I was absolutely floored to hear this. She recently went through a divorce and had been out of the workforce for 15 to 20 years. She does not have a college degree as far as I know.

She now works about 45 hours a week earning $47.50 per hour taking care of one kid. Apparently, the kid is difficult, which is why the family feels the need to pay such a high rate. I don’t know if there are benefits, but 45 x $47.50 per hour alone works out to north of $100K per year.

The most surprising thing is that she refuses to do any light cleaning or even throw a load of laundry in the washer when the kid is resting or there’s downtime. She apparently quit working for another family who asked her to do that.

So $100K+ with no degree, minimal or no experience, and you can be very picky about what tasks you will and will not do? Is this for real? If I had a daughter, I would 100% suggest she consider this as a career unless she had outstanding academic credentials or a strong interest in a potentially high-paying field. WTF?

Myob. Your friend is not a maid. She deserves a break. Also you are sexist if you would only suggest your dd doing this job.

Really, I'm sexist for suggesting this only if I had a daughter? What percentage of families do you think would prefer hiring a woman for this job instead of a man who might sexually abuse the kids?

And if I'm sexist for saying that she's picky for refusing to do any light cleaning/washing, then I guess the wife in the last family that hired her is also sexist because she's the one who asked my wife's friend to do those chores when there was some downtime.

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You could not pay me a million dollars to do that job. Good luck to your wife.

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This is highly unusual. Especially for a nanny who isn’t a house manager. We have staff and are not strangers to hiring domestic help. Our nanny never needed to do any laundry or housework, because we have a housekeeper for that and her pay is a little over half that although we pay for health insurance. Also if my kid were special needs (which is sounds like this child is) it’s incredibly foolish to pay that rate and not hire someone with a degree in special education or child psychology. There is no shortage of highly educated professionally trained special Ed Nannies who work for those rates.

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Anonymous wrote:I recently met a woman who was “retired” at 25. She was a nanny and the dads friend noticed and married her. Dads friend owns a petroleum drilling company. Not bad for a sweet college grad. Now she is “retired” and serves on not for profit boards.

A man is not a plan. It’s highly likely that he’ll leave her in ten years.

And she’ll leave with 50% shares of the petroleum drilling company. A man is a plan.

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If a nanny isn’t supposed to do household duties, what does she do all day?

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Anonymous wrote:If a nanny isn’t supposed to do household duties, what does she do all day?

Take care of the kids.