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

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Anonymous wrote:100k is not what it used to be. If she is an American trustworthy reliable nanny, that seems like a good price to me.

We pay our PT housekeeper $40/hr. I am pretty sure she is illegal. If we can pay $40 for someone to do our laundry, you can pay $47.50 for the care of your child.

Do you file a Schedule H for what you pay your Nanny? Careful.

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If you have a truly difficult child, you will understand how hard it is to find consistent, quality caretakers that want to work with your child. They will all either leave for an "easy" child or will be unable to handle your child, which means you get called in all the time to help with "emergencies."

Now, if you have the kind of money to afford quality care that "works" for that difficult child? 100k is worth it.

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This should not surprise you.

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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.

Men like that usually have good lawyers who suggest prenups. Yeah the lady sho “steals” you from the 2nd or 3rd wife gets the benefit of the man whose learned to protect his assets the second or third time around.

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I make over $100k but think taking care of my kid all day would be more mentally draining and difficult than my office job (which is cognitively a great challenge, but not as stressful as childcare). So, while I think this is a notably high salary for a nanny and would never pay this myself....I get it.

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I have a kid with adhd/anxiety/asd. He melted down frequently, we were not able to identify antecedent behavior, and he was aggressive. We met with the dev ped monthly, read many books, and took multiple parenting classes. It didnt help.

Preschool age was a nightmare. $100k is not enough money for me to deal with that again. When I finally could get him down for a nap, I needed time to recharge so that I was ready for the next round. I couldn’t outsource childcare but I could outsource cleaning and meals and I needed to because I didn’t have the time or energy to handle normal household tasks.

If the nanny is doing this for only $100k someone got a bargain.

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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?

I'm Gen Z and it's absolutely hilarious watching older people find out that yes, you can make good money without going to college and burying yourself in debt.

I feel bad for the Millennials who were told that the only way to succeed was to go to college.

I'm a bartender and I made $108k in 2022. That is my reported income on my W2 with tips listed. 90% of my tips are via credit cards. I deposit between $1200-$1800 each week in cash tips into my savings account and then a portion of that into my Roth IRA until I max it out each year.

I started working in a restaurant as a busser at 15/16. I moved up to waiting tables at 17. I started as a barback at 19 and then became a bartender at 21. I did some courses for Hospitality Management at NOVA but they were a joke. The people teaching hadn't worked in the industry in years and what was being taught wasn't relevant to the current industry. I did the courses to please my parents but once they saw I was able to work and support myself, they eased up. Would they rather I had a college degree? Sure. But they also like that they don't have to assist me with my bills as they do for my sibling who went to college but struggles in this area to live on her $52k/yr teacher salary.

At my job, I get to pick my shifts, have set days off (Sun-Tue), and don't have to do any tasks I don't want to because that's what barbacks are for. So yes, you can have no degree and call the shots.

How long do you plan to be a bar tender? Goingto keep that going to 62?

Look, its great there are plenty of jobs that don't require degrees, but to posters above noting Bill Gates and youtubers/ticktockers as examples of not needing a degree to make a lot, how many of those people are there relative to the general population? Kind of like dreaming of joining the NBA or MLB, IMO. Great if it works out, but it won't for most.

Clueless post. Perhaps the bartender will eventually earn enough to open their own restaurant and bar that you will eat and drink at. There are millions of entrepreneurs crushing it and they didn't need a college degree to do it. Entrepreneurship encompasses a very wide swath from the Nanny, to the kid shoveling snow for his neighbors, to people who have multiple AirBnBs, landscaping businesses, to store owners, online influencers, and company founders, etc. None of these require a college degree but many of them make a lot more money than you realize. Do you ever watch Shark Tank? Of course, not all will succeed. Just an idea, drive, luck, and work ethic. Bottom line, you don't need a college degree to make serious money and do most things with certain professions being an exception.

You don't need a college degree to become a commercial airline pilot. Just need time and money for flight school and to acquire the hours and ratings. Or you can join the military and they'll train you to fly. Just remember that the next time you fly on a commercial aircraft. You put your life into the hands of someone who may not have a college degree. Oh the horror.

I have a kid who upon college graduation just joined to navy. So you have any awareness of how incredibly hard it is to get a job as a pilot in the military? They don’t just teach you to fly if you want. And doing it without a degree costs as much as a degree. Especially if you want to fly commercial.

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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.

Oookaayyy…I’m going back to Earth now.

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely doable. Our last nanny was making $100k plus full benefits (sick, vacation, 401k match, health insurance). 3 kids who were when she started. 5, 8 and 8. This was 4 years ago. We are extremely HHI and net worth and she was phenomenal.

Worth every penny!!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

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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?

“The most surprising thing?” Yeah, no. If you want chores done beyond cleaning up after the child, hire a housekeeper.

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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.

Now you’re finally getting it.

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

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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.

She is making more money than Civil, Structural and MEchanical Engineers make out of college. Good for her.

It is hard to prevent turnover of Nannies. Good pay will help prevent turnover.

I'm paying $31 per hour for adult caregivers for Mom. On top of that we give a $1000 Christmas bonus.

It's more than an ICU nurse with a bachelor's degree makes at Georgetown or Hopkins or similar.

Who knew that taking care of a kid was more difficult than two critically ill patients!!

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

Your question is BEYOND.

Have you ever watched little children?

AT certain ages, you can barely take a bathroom break! Plus they have to be fed, changed, at older ages, they need help with home school projects, etc.

You’re doing it wrong if you can’t go to the bathroom. First off, young kids take naps. Older kids go to school. The human race wouldn’t have been able to continue if parenting was as difficult as the SAHMs on DCUM suggest it is.

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I’m a nanny in LA and my base salary is 95k but with overtime I usually make 125-140k a year. I have 20 years experience and a high school education.