How do you pay your nanny/babysitter?

[Anonymous]

I work very part time and have a PT babysitter. Always paid Babysitters via check. No taxes taken out.

[Anonymous]

By check, once a week. Don’t take taxes out per check, but pay both her and our portion of taxes yearly.

[Anonymous]

Sorry to get into this so quickly but it depends if you mean a nanny or a babysitter.

I pay my high school babysitter around $15 an hour to watch my kids for a date night. Just a few hours. No taxes.

[Anonymous]

Homepay Nanny payroll service for a full-time nanny. They deal with my employer taxes and withholdings If you're paying more than 2K or so each year, you're liable for employer taxes.

[Anonymous]

Sorry but she's not a babysitter. You need to be paying employment taxes, as does she.

I have a weekly babysitter for 3 hours on Friday night and just pay her cash.

[Anonymous]

The nanny is a full time employee and gets paid on the books, direct deposit.

When we hire little girls in the neighborhood to babysit, we pay cash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry but she's not a babysitter. You need to be paying employment taxes, as does she.

I have a weekly babysitter for 3 hours on Friday night and just pay her cash.

I work 5 hours a week. The babysitter comes twice per week for a few hours. I normally run an errand or go to the gym when I have the sitter. I do my actual PT job work in the evening or weekend when DH is home.

I think she is a babysitter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry but she's not a babysitter. You need to be paying employment taxes, as does she.

I have a weekly babysitter for 3 hours on Friday night and just pay her cash.

I work 5 hours a week. The babysitter comes twice per week for a few hours. I normally run an errand or go to the gym when I have the sitter. I do my actual PT job work in the evening or weekend when DH is home.

I think she is a babysitter.

It doesn't matter what you think. If you pay her more than $2100 in a year, you both need to pay taxes.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like you have a babysitter, OP. We do cash for sitters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry but she's not a babysitter. You need to be paying employment taxes, as does she.

I have a weekly babysitter for 3 hours on Friday night and just pay her cash.

I work 5 hours a week. The babysitter comes twice per week for a few hours. I normally run an errand or go to the gym when I have the sitter. I do my actual PT job work in the evening or weekend when DH is home.

I think she is a babysitter.

I posted above and yes, with those hours she’s a babysitter and not a nanny. You could pay her cash.

[Anonymous]

Venmo.

[Anonymous]

We have an after school sitter who is on track to make about $1800K but we also have her do some evenings. We'll pay her more than $2100 this year. We take out taxes and do the whole thing - it's a pain, but it would be a bigger pain to have this come back to haunt us later when one of us wants to become a judge or run for office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry but she's not a babysitter. You need to be paying employment taxes, as does she.

I have a weekly babysitter for 3 hours on Friday night and just pay her cash.

I work 5 hours a week. The babysitter comes twice per week for a few hours. I normally run an errand or go to the gym when I have the sitter. I do my actual PT job work in the evening or weekend when DH is home.

I think she is a babysitter.

I posted above and yes, with those hours she’s a babysitter and not a nanny. You could pay her cash.

$2100/52 weeks is $40.38 per week. If you pay more than that, you are legally liable for taxes.