Anonymous
08/03/2022 12:09
Subject: Are you all really paying $30 an hour for a good nanny?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We got a nanny who isn’t college educated but otherwise meets your criteria and started with one infant at $15. Each year there’s been a raise plus a raise with the second baby.
Please specific you live in a Ohio town with three stoplights and a drug addiction problem before speaking. Thank you.
We live in a major city and none of us use drugs. Stoplights at most corners, because that’s how cities work.
Really? What city?
Anonymous
08/03/2022 12:07
Subject: Re:Are you all really paying $30 an hour for a good nanny?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I love how people are so indignant about nanny pay, but I’m 32 years old and the majority of my college-educated friends make $40k a year working for tech companies, unions, media conglomerates, etc. With 10 years of post-grad experience and in MANHATTAN. And I know plenty of people with law degrees or other advanced degrees who make less than $60k/year. So, yeah. Why is one ok but not the other?
It’s not OK. Your “friends” are EXTREME underachievers.
And by the way, I’m not sure why friends are in quotes. These are the loveliest, most caring people I know, even if they aren’t particularly ambitious. MUCH nicer than the tools I met in law school and at firms here in DC. Just sayin’
It is really quite uncommon that someone with a law degree and 10 years of experience in Manhattan makes 40K. It's, like, unheard of. This was my starting salary out of grad school in 2001, in a humanities major. Something is fishy.
My starting salary in Manhattan in 2000 with a degree from u of Chicago was 27k. This was at Bozell, a large marketing firm.
Anonymous
08/03/2022 12:01
Subject: Re:Are you all really paying $30 an hour for a good nanny?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I love how people are so indignant about nanny pay, but I’m 32 years old and the majority of my college-educated friends make $40k a year working for tech companies, unions, media conglomerates, etc. With 10 years of post-grad experience and in MANHATTAN. And I know plenty of people with law degrees or other advanced degrees who make less than $60k/year. So, yeah. Why is one ok but not the other?
It’s not OK. Your “friends” are EXTREME underachievers.
And by the way, I’m not sure why friends are in quotes. These are the loveliest, most caring people I know, even if they aren’t particularly ambitious. MUCH nicer than the tools I met in law school and at firms here in DC. Just sayin’
It is really quite uncommon that someone with a law degree and 10 years of experience in Manhattan makes 40K. It's, like, unheard of. This was my starting salary out of grad school in 2001, in a humanities major. Something is fishy.
Anonymous
08/02/2022 06:38
Subject: Re:Are you all really paying $30 an hour for a good nanny?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I love how people are so indignant about nanny pay, but I’m 32 years old and the majority of my college-educated friends make $40k a year working for tech companies, unions, media conglomerates, etc. With 10 years of post-grad experience and in MANHATTAN. And I know plenty of people with law degrees or other advanced degrees who make less than $60k/year. So, yeah. Why is one ok but not the other?
It’s not OK. Your “friends” are EXTREME underachievers.
And by the way, I’m not sure why friends are in quotes. These are the loveliest, most caring people I know, even if they aren’t particularly ambitious. MUCH nicer than the tools I met in law school and at firms here in DC. Just sayin’
Anonymous
08/02/2022 06:35
Subject: Re:Are you all really paying $30 an hour for a good nanny?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I love how people are so indignant about nanny pay, but I’m 32 years old and the majority of my college-educated friends make $40k a year working for tech companies, unions, media conglomerates, etc. With 10 years of post-grad experience and in MANHATTAN. And I know plenty of people with law degrees or other advanced degrees who make less than $60k/year. So, yeah. Why is one ok but not the other?
It’s not OK. Your “friends” are EXTREME underachievers.
But corporate America gets away with extorting them and nobody cares, that’s my point. While we sit here debating how much an individual nanny employed by a family should make, big companies are laughing their way to the bank for millions of people like my friends. It’s really unfair.
Anonymous
08/02/2022 03:30
Subject: Re:Are you all really paying $30 an hour for a good nanny?
Anonymous wrote:I love how people are so indignant about nanny pay, but I’m 32 years old and the majority of my college-educated friends make $40k a year working for tech companies, unions, media conglomerates, etc. With 10 years of post-grad experience and in MANHATTAN. And I know plenty of people with law degrees or other advanced degrees who make less than $60k/year. So, yeah. Why is one ok but not the other?
It’s not OK. Your “friends” are EXTREME underachievers.
Anonymous
08/02/2022 03:29
Subject: Are you all really paying $30 an hour for a good nanny?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We got a nanny who isn’t college educated but otherwise meets your criteria and started with one infant at $15. Each year there’s been a raise plus a raise with the second baby.
I’m guessing you don’t pay legally either.
So glad you think so little of who’s helping raise your children.
Nannying is a luxury not a necessity. You are a daycare parent. Send your kid to daycare.
*thunderous applause*
Anonymous
08/02/2022 03:27
Subject: Re:Are you all really paying $30 an hour for a good nanny?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I only would hire college educated nanny with 7-10 yrs of experience. The truth is, her college degree would be not from US college and that is totally fine. The reason I do not consider non-educated nannies is mostly that I like to see very good manners, her to be nearly perfect role model, read a lot, and be someone who has thirst for knowledge that she can inject into my child from early age. Preferably someone who has her won kid with college degree as well. Someone who never saw college as their goal is just not the person I would want my kids to be with 10 hrs a day 5 days a week.
PP, you better sit down for this. It is more than likely your grandmother did not go to college. Depending on how old you are, your mother may not have attended college. So here were these uneducated women raising females who now outnumber males pursuing college degrees. PEOPLE WHO NEVER SAW COLLEGE AS THEIR GOAL! Can you imagine?
You’d (not “you”) better sit down for this. We don’t live in the past. Women of those generations were barred from many colleges, many jobs, could not get mortgages or even have bank accounts. Luckily, we don’t live in the past and that’s irrelevant to today.
You’re welcome.
Anonymous
08/02/2022 03:24
Subject: Re:Are you all really paying $30 an hour for a good nanny?
Anonymous wrote:I love how people are so indignant about nanny pay, but I’m 32 years old and the majority of my college-educated friends make $40k a year working for tech companies, unions, media conglomerates, etc. With 10 years of post-grad experience and in MANHATTAN. And I know plenty of people with law degrees or other advanced degrees who make less than $60k/year. So, yeah. Why is one ok but not the other?
C’mon. You can make $40k working for Target. If you’re a college educated person let alone with advanced degrees working for $40k in Manhattan you’re a moron.
Anonymous
08/02/2022 03:21
Subject: Re:Are you all really paying $30 an hour for a good nanny?
For multiple kids in high end neighborhoods in the DMV? Yes. In the UMC outer burbs? Probably not.
Anonymous
08/02/2022 03:11
Subject: Re:Are you all really paying $30 an hour for a good nanny?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I love how people are so indignant about nanny pay, but I’m 32 years old and the majority of my college-educated friends make $40k a year working for tech companies, unions, media conglomerates, etc. With 10 years of post-grad experience and in MANHATTAN. And I know plenty of people with law degrees or other advanced degrees who make less than $60k/year. So, yeah. Why is one ok but not the other?
How does this math work? You're 32. You make $40K a year with 10 years of postgrad experience. In Manhattan.
Did you complete postgrad degree at 22?
Why are you making this little after ten years? why hasn't your salary moved?
How are you affording Manhattan?
Something doesn't compute.
When you’re hired at $30k out of college and get cost of living increases every year for a decade this is very much how it works.
Anonymous
08/01/2022 23:03
Subject: Re:Are you all really paying $30 an hour for a good nanny?
Anonymous wrote:I love how people are so indignant about nanny pay, but I’m 32 years old and the majority of my college-educated friends make $40k a year working for tech companies, unions, media conglomerates, etc. With 10 years of post-grad experience and in MANHATTAN. And I know plenty of people with law degrees or other advanced degrees who make less than $60k/year. So, yeah. Why is one ok but not the other?
How does this math work? You're 32. You make $40K a year with 10 years of postgrad experience. In Manhattan.
Did you complete postgrad degree at 22?
Why are you making this little after ten years? why hasn't your salary moved?
How are you affording Manhattan?
Something doesn't compute.
Anonymous
08/01/2022 20:22
Subject: Re:Are you all really paying $30 an hour for a good nanny?
I love how people are so indignant about nanny pay, but I’m 32 years old and the majority of my college-educated friends make $40k a year working for tech companies, unions, media conglomerates, etc. With 10 years of post-grad experience and in MANHATTAN. And I know plenty of people with law degrees or other advanced degrees who make less than $60k/year. So, yeah. Why is one ok but not the other?
Anonymous
07/28/2022 21:40
Subject: Re:Are you all really paying $30 an hour for a good nanny?
We paid our nanny (who was with us for over thirteen years; she just moved on, switching careers with a certification we paid for, her decision) $35/hr plus paid PTO, education credits, and health care premiums. She did not just nanny but also did household management. She was an excellent employee and we are still close, frequently going to lunch.
Anonymous
07/28/2022 21:24
Subject: Re:Are you all really paying $30 an hour for a good nanny?
You’re not going to keep a college grad for years with a 30$/hr salary. They will have better options. But if you don’t mind having a new nanny every year or two, I guess it could work for you