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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not seeing the part that is wrong with this. Those jobs - especially nannying - pay much better and off better benefits than most other jobs the candidates could get with similar skills. [/quote]

This. We did a nanny share in large part to be able to pay a good wage well away from the poverty line. Our nanny had a late model car and owned a modest home in MoCo. [/quote]
Was she single? I doubt it. She had someone to help support her. No one can afford to support themselves in this area on nanny wages + plus buy a late model car. How much did you pay her?[/quote]

She was married, and she earned around $52,000/year (on the books) with paid sick days and vacations. She had health insurance for herself & kids from another source, but we would have helped pay for health insurance if she needed it.  That wage (by herself, not including her spouse) put her right at the mean of the 3rd quintile of incomes nationwide (lower in MoCo because MoCo skews so rich from Bethesda).  I'm not sure that without even a high school degree she could have earned similar in any other profession generally open to women.  [/quote]

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