Are you all really paying $30 an hour for a good nanny?

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Anonymous wrote:So the upshot of this thread is that you generally cannot find a college educated nanny for under $30, right?

At least $25 for college educated Nannie’s for one child, but $30 is not uncommon. Nannies are in high demand still with all of the repeated daycare closures and it’s their market.

Ugh,I have no idea why my tablet insists upon “correcting” nannies to “Nannie’s.”

My phone does too. I don’t even know a Nannie!

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Anonymous wrote:Why would someone with a college degree be a nanny?

Because nannies in HCOL areas make six-figures while working one week off and one week on with rich families.

Ding ding ding. I’m currently on my week off. 110k per year. Week on is awful because of the parents, but it pays the bills.

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Anonymous wrote:We got a nanny who isn’t college educated but otherwise meets your criteria and started with one infant at $15. Each year there’s been a raise plus a raise with the second baby.

Is your nanny undocumented or are you in a town of 20 people? I’m a nanny and haven’t been paid under $20 since 2002.

My nanny is a mid-twenties woman who was born in the US. We paid her $16 last year, now $18 with our second child. This is on par with what other parents I know in PG and Anne Arundel counties pay.

Why are you proud of not giving your nanny a living wage?

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We’re currently paying our nanny $30 hourly (40 hours guarantee, plus 10 days PTO, all holidays, 4 sick days and $350 health Ins. Stipend). We have a 7 month old boy, she’s wonderful.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re currently paying our nanny $30 hourly (40 hours guarantee, plus 10 days PTO, all holidays, 4 sick days and $350 health Ins. Stipend). We have a 7 month old boy, she’s wonderful.

Thank you for treating your nanny like the professional she is. My current nanny family treats me like a professional, and I’ve been with them for 9 years.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would someone with a college degree be a nanny?[/quot
I would. I'm only looking to work part time and not in an office setting. I love kids and I love being outside. I worked at a school and disliked it a lot. I have a part time job now, but thinking about switching to being a nanny.

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Anonymous wrote:We got a nanny who isn’t college educated but otherwise meets your criteria and started with one infant at $15. Each year there’s been a raise plus a raise with the second baby.

Is your nanny undocumented or are you in a town of 20 people? I’m a nanny and haven’t been paid under $20 since 2002.

My nanny is a mid-twenties woman who was born in the US. We paid her $16 last year, now $18 with our second child. This is on par with what other parents I know in PG and Anne Arundel counties pay.

Why are you proud of not giving your nanny a living wage?

Yes, this is appalling. I pay my occasional ranch hand $25 an hour.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re currently paying our nanny $30 hourly (40 hours guarantee, plus 10 days PTO, all holidays, 4 sick days and $350 health Ins. Stipend). We have a 7 month old boy, she’s wonderful.

Thank you.

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Anonymous wrote:So the upshot of this thread is that you generally cannot find a college educated nanny for under $30, right?

Right. An American college graduate will start at $30.

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You won’t find a professional nanny with a college degree for under $30, mainly because professional nannies are usually with agencies. In my area, the going rate for a nanny is almost the same as a baby nurse, $35-40/hr. It’s kind of crazy. I’ve been working nonstop for the past year, saving money, because I know there’s no way this can last. Even normal families are paying $35/hr, it’s not just celebrities.

I think you can find someone for $20, but they won’t last, once they start talking to nannies at the park. The $20 nannies are also the ones on their phones, btw. You won’t see it at home on the nanny cam, but at the park, those are the kids being ignored. When a family pays me $40/hr, I don’t even look in the direction of my phone. I also won’t complain about doing extras, because I’m being paid what I’m worth.

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All of my friends pay between $25-$30/hr. We just hired a nanny to start end of august to watch our infant who will be 3 months old, 20 hours a week. We will be paying her $27/hr. She’s not college educated but has 6 years of nanny experience caring for infants.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Prince William County and we pay our summer babysitter $15 an hour. She is currently in college.

She’s probably living at home with her parents. This isn’t comparable to hiring an independent adult for a long term contract.

She is - and it saves me money!

If I were as cheap and trashy about my children’s care as you are, I certainly wouldn’t brag about it.

NP, but no reason to snap! This family has a college student who is looking for a student wage; she could be a great caregiver. In that case, win-win. And it's only for the summer. We hired a live-in summer nanny when our kids were younger, and she was better than many nannies I've seen lately.

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Anonymous wrote:We got a nanny who isn’t college educated but otherwise meets your criteria and started with one infant at $15. Each year there’s been a raise plus a raise with the second baby.

$15? Really? I haven't had a nanny in years, but I do recall paying that around 2010.

Yes, we paid that in 2009 and gave a generous bonus around the holidays.

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I only would hire college educated nanny with 7-10 yrs of experience. The truth is, her college degree would be not from US college and that is totally fine. The reason I do not consider non-educated nannies is mostly that I like to see very good manners, her to be nearly perfect role model, read a lot, and be someone who has thirst for knowledge that she can inject into my child from early age. Preferably someone who has her won kid with college degree as well. Someone who never saw college as their goal is just not the person I would want my kids to be with 10 hrs a day 5 days a week.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Prince William County and we pay our summer babysitter $15 an hour. She is currently in college.

She’s probably living at home with her parents. This isn’t comparable to hiring an independent adult for a long term contract.

She is - and it saves me money!

If I were as cheap and trashy about my children’s care as you are, I certainly wouldn’t brag about it.

She works part-time for me and she is amazing and loves her job.