Is this at all appealing or feasible?

[Anonymous]

We need a nanny for some nights and some weekends. DH is doing a surgical residency and I’m a musician who performers some evenings and weekends. We will both know our schedules a month in advance.

We have a lovely guest house we could offer as part of the package as well as a very competitive hourly rate. She will never be asked to work during the workweek days.

What

[Anonymous]

If you're offering a guest house residency with 'free' rent and only babysitting for 10 hours or less a week, I think that would be desirable for an individual.

Like an au pair but even APs get paid. I'd probably expect a baseline pay of $400 or so a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're offering a guest house residency with 'free' rent and only babysitting for 10 hours or less a week, I think that would be desirable for an individual.

Like an au pair but even APs get paid. I'd probably expect a baseline pay of $400 or so a week.

OP here. We’d be offering the guest house and utilities free of any charge as a kind of guaranteed hours if you will. Some months the nanny won’t be asked to work at all (DH would be home) and some months she’d need to work upwards of 30 hours a week (maybe more).

We don’t want a young au pair.

[Anonymous]

Would the nanny be able to hold a full-time job?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would the nanny be able to hold a full-time job?

Yes. As long as she could be at our house by six PM on the nights I have to work.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think this complies with tax laws.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think this complies with tax laws.

What tax laws would be applicable? We’d be paying her legally for hours worked and the house is a perk of the job.

[Anonymous]

If the guest house is nice and very livable long term, I think it could work out great for the right nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the guest house is nice and very livable long term, I think it could work out great for the right nanny.

OP here. Yes, the guest house is beautiful and all recently renovated. She’d have her own garage and washer/dryer too.

[Anonymous]

I think it sounds good for someone in a very specific situation, like daytime college/grad school or trying to make it as a writer or something. It's sort of the equivalent of working at a restaurant or bar at night to subsidize your arts. If there will regularly be months with 0 hours, though z they WILL need another job unless they are living off student loans, and that would make the 30 hour weeks really tough for them. Can you give any kind of sense of what the average would be?

[Anonymous]

This would be ideal for a single nanny who’s works for another family in the neighborhood. A great way for a nanny to regroup! The money saved in rent alone is incentive enough.

Look in your own neighborhood, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it sounds good for someone in a very specific situation, like daytime college/grad school or trying to make it as a writer or something. It's sort of the equivalent of working at a restaurant or bar at night to subsidize your arts. If there will regularly be months with 0 hours, though z they WILL need another job unless they are living off student loans, and that would make the 30 hour weeks really tough for them. Can you give any kind of sense of what the average would be?

OP here. I would want the person to have another full time job. I was thinking a teacher or nanny. I really don’t want students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This would be ideal for a single nanny who’s works for another family in the neighborhood. A great way for a nanny to regroup! The money saved in rent alone is incentive enough.

Look in your own neighborhood, OP.

OP again. A full time nanny in the neighborhood would be great!

[Anonymous]

Sounds very attractive to the right nanny.

[Anonymous]

What time do your kids go to bed? If it's super early like 730pm then there isn't that much awake time the guest -house person would have to engage with your kid(s).

How old are we talking about? Self sufficient kids who sorta just need a warm-blooded person in the room or are we talking g young kids who need a super vigilant person to follow routine and engage.