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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pay above market and offer generous benefits and you'll find someone good who wants to stay.[/quote]

We do.  OP here and $28 an hour plus healthcare stipend ($300 a month) and all holidays off plus two weeks vacation and five days PTO.  My preschooler is in school five hours a day and I do drop off so she just has the little one for 5.5 hours a day.  I think that’s good, right? [/quote]

Do you work from home and are you guaranteeing 40hrs? Nannies have full time bills. Unfortunately now since covid, Nannies have the upper hand. $28 was great prior to covid, but now you need to be $30+ full health insurance, Pto, etc. It’s not a plus if you work from home and ‘can help out’. When parents work from home, rates are higher because nannies can pick and choose right now. [/quote]

Yep - I think the hours you're offering could be the problem. If you're only offering 5.5 hours a day / 27.5 hours a week, you're not going to get the best / most professional candidates. Our old nanny and our family friends' amazing nannies are looking to work between 50-60 hours a week, so that they're making close to $75/80k. We lost our amazing nanny of three years when we cut her down to 40 hours -- even though she genuinely loved the kids, she couldn't take the 30% pay cut.

If you need less than 30 hours, try an au pair and be VERY picky in the interview process. That's where we have landed and ours is incredible.[/quote]

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