Rates for full-time nanny in Bethesda -- 1 kid and 2 kids

[Anonymous]

Good morning,

What are the going rates for nannies in the Bethesda and Chevy Chase area? For one kid? For two (one toddler and one baby)?

Have a nice day.

[Anonymous]

This board is populated by nannies who claim they make $35/hr plus benefits and MB’s who claim they pay $15/hr and then say they aren’t even in the DC area.

It’s $20/hr.

But seriously, just ask your friends/neighbors/coworkers what they pay. Or ask those people to ask their friends.

“I want to be sure I’m offering a fair wage. Would you mind letting me know what you’re paying?”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This board is populated by nannies who claim they make $35/hr plus benefits and MB’s who claim they pay $15/hr and then say they aren’t even in the DC area.

It’s $20/hr.

But seriously, just ask your friends/neighbors/coworkers what they pay. Or ask those people to ask their friends.

“I want to be sure I’m offering a fair wage. Would you mind letting me know what you’re paying?”

+1 to allllll of this (including that it's about $20/hr).

We pay $24/hour for a nanny share with two babies, downtown, so yeah, one family, a smidge further out, about $20 is about right.

[Anonymous]

I make $20+ as a live-in...

[Anonymous]

A lot falls on the nannies experience. We pay our nanny with 10+ years of experience, $25 an hour for a toddler and infant. She was at $24 and we upped her to $25 with the infant. All of our friends pay between $20-$25.

[Anonymous]

Also benefits matter. Some families pay both portions of employment taxes and/or contribute to health insurance.

[Anonymous]

Between $25 and $30 for a legal, English fluent (speaking and reading) educated nanny with experience.

We just went through it.

[Anonymous]

We pay $25/ hour with guaranteed hours that includes ten hours of OT a week- I find for many nannies the actual rate was less important than guaranteed hours

This is for two kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also benefits matter. Some families pay both portions of employment taxes and/or contribute to health insurance.

You can’t pay both portions of employment taxes - if an employer pays the employee’s taxes, that is just more income to the employee, for which additional tax is due.

[Anonymous]

We pay $22 in silver spring. Guaranteed hours and OT and while i say she has 2 weeks PTO, we don't deduct days whem she asks for a long weekend every once in a while.

[Anonymous]

I'd say $18-$22 for 2 kids, depending on the experience of the nanny. The ones you will prefer will end up in the $20-22 range. We had a fantastic nanny at $20 two years ago.

[Anonymous]

20-30 but a lot depends on hours and just the luck of what your nanny made in her last job.
IME, many don’t understand the OT requirements so she may ask for $25/hr for a 50 hour week but you need to set the rate so that 40x + (1.5*x*10)=(25*50). Where x is the actual hourly rate and you pay her 1.5x for any additional hours worked.
We had many applicants saying we didn’t need to pay OT for guaranteed hours over 40 provided we paid ___ per hour or ___ per week. But you need an hourly rate with 1.5 Ot over 40 hours.

[Anonymous]

It could be anywhere from 18-30+, it depends on number of kids, hours, live in/ live out, whether nanny drives or not, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Between $25 and $30 for a legal, English fluent (speaking and reading) educated nanny with experience.

We just went through it.

+1. The reading-in-English was important to us. Even the foreign-born nannies we interviewed weren’t comfortable reading to the kids or texting in English. We pay $28 for two kids (toddler and newborn).

[Anonymous]

$18 per hour. she is ok, but not great. 10 days PTO. guaranteed hrs, but less than full time. I'd rather pay more and get someone better, but my spouse is paranoid about covid exposure with new person. Ideally, you get what you pay for. But I don't know if it's always true.