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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hello, I am a recent (2022) graduate nurse with a bachelor’s degree living in Silver Spring. I and every one else in my class year makes less than $35/hr.

Among other skills, I can and have kept people alive when their heart stopped, I can detect when someone is about to stop breathing and intervene, and I can and have saved someone from choking more than once. I change complicated dressings and prevent serious infections every day. Apples to apples, I “care” for 2-5 people at once, monitoring them closely for 12 hours at a time.

[b]Explain please why a kind, loving baby-sitter  with a fraction of my education and hard baby-sitter skills should make more than a registered nurse?[/b][/quote]

Supply and demand dictates that if the supply of nannies is high and demand is low, then they shouldn’t.
But if suddenly everyone in the neighborhood needs a nanny and there are none to be found, then the demand can quickly escalate to the point where people will pay a LOT of money for a nanny, simply bc you can’t leave a toddler home by himself! Hospitals can (and often do!) make the questionable decision to remain short-staffed and still not raise pay bc they can’t make the numbers work or simply don’t want to.
But for parents, childcare isn’t optional (unless one parent stays home), so they pay what the market demands.
…..within reason.
As a parent, I want to pay our nanny well, but I have a threshold that would make it no longer advantageous or even workable for me to outsource childcare. 
But like one of the PPs said, If I pay $32/hour, I’m essentially paying out 85% of my salary, so I may as well stay home and do the job myself and then figure out how to do a side gig to make up the extra $10K I gave up to stay home.

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