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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Must be nice to be able to work less than full time.  For those of us who do work a full 40 hours, plus commute, 36 hour weeks are not really an option.

For us, it would have been a stretch to be able to afford a nanny.  We both work 40 hours.  It's between 25-45 minutes commute each way so rounding up, it's 1.5 hours commute each day.  That's 47.5 hours.  Since by law, you must pay time and a half for any hours over 40, that's a minimum of 768.75 per week in wages alone.  Add in 7.35% FICA and you're up to $825 per week or $43K per year.    Conversely we have our twins in a very good daycare center and it costs us $33.5K for the first two years and then went down to $28.5K after age 2 when the rates when down.  Our daycare is usually only closed 3 extra teacher training days per year vs the 5-10 days of paid leave we would have had to offer a nanny.  And when we actually advertised and interviewed, we were not getting the best respondents to our ads at the $15 rate.  The best candidates wanted more than $15 or wanted some extra perk.

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This. I need 50 hours with my 40 hr job in DC. Don't most people have commutes? [/quote]

This is OP -- I am on a 80% schedule, so figure about 32 hours plus an hour commute every day for four days (1.5 for both ways, lets say) so, 38 hours.[/quote]

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