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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The nanny salaries posts are kind of like the money and finance forum.  Everyone makes a huge salary of 30$/hr plus 8 weeks of paid vacation, health care and a car.  Just like $300K/year is poor in the money and finance forum.  Use the information with care.[/quote]

+1. Just read through the posts and you’ll see how biased and low the traffic is on the site. Parent posters are ridiculed constantly. [/quote]

Bc the majority of them should be looking into daycare instead of trying to find a cheap nanny. [/quote]

Yet somehow these "poors" manage to employ nannies at the prevailing market rate.  I looked at the nanny forums when I was first hiring my nanny years ago, and found it completely out of touch with reality.  Now Jeff has allowed nanny posts back on the main DCUM site, and the vocal outliers have found their way over here.[/quote]

Yes bc these “poors” are entitled and believe they should have a nanny bc the actual wealthy have one. Sorry you feel like you need a nanny but nannies are for the wealthy. They’ve never been for the middle class. Nannies are a luxury that few can actually afford. Only “poors” refer to a market rate and believe anyone who pays more must be lying. “Poors” also like to justify their low pay. They want to claim their nanny is so great and smart. Why would a so called smart and qualified nanny work for $15/hr when they can make more? These “poors” also like to complain about how their nanny keeps quitting, is watching tv, on the phone, comes late, etc. Of course they are, you saved money and hired incompetent help. Every nanny I’ve met that made $15/hr were either very young and had no idea how to handle children or couldn’t speak English. [/quote]

Well, I've had the same nanny for 7 years, and she is wonderful, and thankfully seems happy working for me. She doesn't have a college degree, and she's foreign born, and she's an exceptional nanny, referred to me by a colleague who recommended her as an exceptional caregiver.  One does not need a college degree to care about children, be reliable, timely and competent.  [/quote]

College degree helps with wage. Of course your nanny is happy, she is a foreigner with no degree making minimum wage. [/quote]

How does a college degree help a nanny better feed or diaper a baby?  Or watch a toddler at the park?  Or read to a child, etc?

And why do you view a foreign nannies ability to expose a child to another language a negative?  [/quote]

The same way a college degree helps with anything. Ask other parents why they put in their ad, college degree desirable.

Never said exposure to another language was a bad thing. So maybe read and don’t try to put words there that aren’t.

As with any job, you want to appear professional for the family you are trying to attract. For the $15/hr family this isn’t important, but, who wants to try to live off of $15/hr? All I’m saying is that while you may feel $15/hr is great and the norm, it’s simply not. It’s the norm for those who cannot afford the more experienced and qualified nanny. The norm for me and the nannies I know is much higher with a different type of family. And no I don’t make $30/hr unless I’m working a nanny share. [/quote]

A college degree does not help with everything.  There are many jobs where there is no practical benefit from having a college degree and being a nanny to a young child is one of them.

In terms of professionalism, I don't need some to go to college as a finishing school to be professional enough for the job.  They are not a trophy or status symbol; they are there to lovingly care for my kid.

This has nothing to do with the rates charged.  If two nannies charged the same rate, I would give little weight to the fact that one had a college degree.  There are a host of other factors I would care about more and there is a decent chance I would hired the non college grad over the grad, even with their rates werre the same.[/quote]

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