Are the rates posted on the nanny forums accurate?

[Anonymous]

Are the rates posted on the nanny forum accurate? I'll need a nanny in the next few months and I'm not really sure what to offer. On care.com most people state their salary range as $15-25 but on the nanny forums people are asking for at least $20-50. What's a good rate for a fairly experienced nanny? I'm not really looking for some with tons of education but more a loving, caring person that'll show up on time and take good care of my kid. First time mom here so I have no idea.

[Anonymous]

$20-25/hr with guaranteed pay, vacation, sick, holidays, annual bonus and raise, and possibly a healthcare stipend. You’ll have taxes in addition to that.

[Anonymous]

It's $15-20 with benefits. We were scared of the taxes and worried we wouldn't do it the right way, so that made us wary of nannies. We needed everything to be legal and above board since we are public employees and file financial disclosure forms.

[Anonymous]

Yes. There is a wide range as qualifications, education and experience demand more money. You could find a warm body for $20 and a college graduate with teaching experience and years of being a nanny for $30.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's $15-20 with benefits. We were scared of the taxes and worried we wouldn't do it the right way, so that made us wary of nannies. We needed everything to be legal and above board since we are public employees and file financial disclosure forms.

How do nannies factor into financial disclosure forms for normal public employees? The ones I fill out ask about money coming in and assets, but not money going out. For senior positions, particularly needing confirmation, it is a different beast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. There is a wide range as qualifications, education and experience demand more money. You could find a warm body for $20 and a college graduate with teaching experience and years of being a nanny for $30.

Not true. I interviewed 12 nanny candidates and asked them their expected salary and heard numbers from 12$/hr to 22$/hr for candidates who all had some degree of experience in childcare and were all legal to work in the US. Depends on the experience level and age (and fluency in English!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. There is a wide range as qualifications, education and experience demand more money. You could find a warm body for $20 and a college graduate with teaching experience and years of being a nanny for $30.

Not true. I interviewed 12 nanny candidates and asked them their expected salary and heard numbers from 12$/hr to 22$/hr for candidates who all had some degree of experience in childcare and were all legal to work in the US. Depends on the experience level and age (and fluency in English!)

You do know that some American women are nannies, right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. There is a wide range as qualifications, education and experience demand more money. You could find a warm body for $20 and a college graduate with teaching experience and years of being a nanny for $30.

Not true. I interviewed 12 nanny candidates and asked them their expected salary and heard numbers from 12$/hr to 22$/hr for candidates who all had some degree of experience in childcare and were all legal to work in the US. Depends on the experience level and age (and fluency in English!)

You do know that some American women are nannies, right?

Which is one way someone could be legal to work here and would likely mean English fluency. Nothing the PP said suggested Americans couldn't nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. There is a wide range as qualifications, education and experience demand more money. You could find a warm body for $20 and a college graduate with teaching experience and years of being a nanny for $30.

This really isn’t true. I’d say the range is 16-20 per hour depending on number of hours and if there’s overtime etc. you don’t just get a “warm body” for 20.

Some nannies are much better than others and engage more with the children and love them — and this certainly isn’t a function of their pay. Op as you look for someone, my advice would be to be open to people who don’t speak perfect English. It opened up a much broader pool of candidates for me and I found and amazing warm loving kind nanny.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. There is a wide range as qualifications, education and experience demand more money. You could find a warm body for $20 and a college graduate with teaching experience and years of being a nanny for $30.

Not true. I interviewed 12 nanny candidates and asked them their expected salary and heard numbers from 12$/hr to 22$/hr for candidates who all had some degree of experience in childcare and were all legal to work in the US. Depends on the experience level and age (and fluency in English!)

You do know that some American women are nannies, right?

Which is one way someone could be legal to work here and would likely mean English fluency. Nothing the PP said suggested Americans couldn't nanny.

+1 Reading is fundamental.

[Anonymous]

Ha ha! $12 for a nanny?! Our teenage babysitter demands $20! The again, she is an English speaking American.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ha ha! $12 for a nanny?! Our teenage babysitter demands $20! The again, she is an English speaking American.

$12 was the bottom of the range mentioned. And a babysitter can make a higher hourly rate than a nanny because a nanny has a guaranteed full-time job (40 hours plus overtime and other benefits.)

[Anonymous]

I think more like $17 to $25/hr depending on other things like number of hours. But I think 80-90% of the English speaking nannies with legal authorization to work and some experience are in that ballpark. We’ve had 4 nannies, all of whom were legally authorized to work and native English speakers (1 native born, 1 naturalized and 2 green card holders). We paid taxes, WC and UI on top of that and gave one a health insurance stipend because she was not otherwise insured.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. There is a wide range as qualifications, education and experience demand more money. You could find a warm body for $20 and a college graduate with teaching experience and years of being a nanny for $30.

As a nanny, this is the best response. There most definitely is a wide range of rates just like there is a wide range of nannies. Some nannies will accept any amount, especially when they are desperate. As you can see many parents think they have a good or decent nanny and will that to justify what they pay/can afford. A nanny is a luxury item and the best demand a higher amount. Anyone can lie about their credentials and a background check only shows so much. You should list what you can afford to pay and see what nannies apply.

[Anonymous]

My experience has been $20-$25 an hour will get you a nanny with experience. I have found that the salary a nanny wants largely depends on what she made at her previous jobs, not really what her experience actually was. For example, nanny shares usually pay more, so someone coming off a nanny share who doesn't want to take a paycut is going to try to command that higher rate. I think the nanny board here overshoots salary by a lot.