I spoke with a Bethesda area agency today and they said rates start at $25 for one child and add a few dollars for the second. So yeah, the $30 rates are a bit overblown.

Anonymous wrote:$28/hour for 40 hours per week guaranteed 52 weeks/year, 6 year-old (full day school), 3 year-old (half-day school). Most weeks, we pay for 42.5 hours (8:30 am - 5 pm). I do most of the driving, and she usually gets 5-8 weeks vacation, time off for appointments, attending important events for her kids. She gets insurance from her husband's employer, we give her a transportation subsidy ($2K/year) and an annual bonus ($2.5K). With both kids in school next year, she will transition to a housekeeper/house manager role. After 4 years (and a pandemic), she's like family at this point!

This is really amazing! I’d love to be able to be this generous.

How do you handle the 5-8 weeks vacation? Do you hire a sitter? One problem I have is that by paying my nanny for vacation, I also need to pay a back up sitter so those weeks end up costing me like $3k/week, between paying the nanny and the back up sitter. And that’s my entire take home for the week!

Another question for you if you don’t mind - my understanding from my CPA is that I make too much to qualify for some of the dependent childcare tax credits. So I typically end up paying like $5k in taxes on top of everything I pay the nanny. Do you have any tricks to lessen that blow?

Our HHI is about $500k, I’m assuming you are in a similar bracket? But my husband makes $350k, I make roughly $150k, and he is correct that we would probably save money in the short term if I stayed home and we didn’t employ a nanny. Appreciate other working mom’s financial insight into how to make this work!!!

DCUM are cheap AF! The reason why most educated nannies would only work with agencies. A lot of Nannie’s were former teachers, BTW-for those sore ass moms that say “nannies aren’t educated” or speak very little English….the ignorance here is real.

1 kid is 23-30 per hour, 2 is 25-35 per hour with the same family

Nanny share is 13-15 per hour both families pays $15 per hour and nanny gets $30 per hour for taking care 2 kids from different families

Pp, does your nanny do planned activities with kids, and otherwise works on their development? I cannot imagine a well rounded and educating nanny accepting less than $35 in a share. $26 looks bad to me.

We pay $26/hour in a nanny share for 2 kids in Arlington. Nanny also gets standard holidays, 2 weeks of vacation, and 1 week of sick time. Both families will pay a holiday bonus that is 1 week of pay. We have found our rate to be fairly normal amongst our friend group.

For two kids, nannies are cheating themselves to accept anything less than $30/hr.

Anonymous wrote:What are you paying your nanny this year and how many kids/hours/benefits? I’lll start:

2 y.o./40 guaranteed hours/$26 an hour plus health insurance and paid leave. In CCMD.

Cheap. Way below normal.

Thank you for sharing. I have worked as a nanny in the past and find it so funny when families say they're nannies 'are like family'... LOL

I make $35 in a nanny share in Rockville, 40 hrs, all holidays, 2 weeks vacation/7 sick days

$28/hour for 40 hours per week guaranteed 52 weeks/year, 6 year-old (full day school), 3 year-old (half-day school). Most weeks, we pay for 42.5 hours (8:30 am - 5 pm). I do most of the driving, and she usually gets 5-8 weeks vacation, time off for appointments, attending important events for her kids. She gets insurance from her husband's employer, we give her a transportation subsidy ($2K/year) and an annual bonus ($2.5K). With both kids in school next year, she will transition to a housekeeper/house manager role. After 4 years (and a pandemic), she's like family at this point!

I am hiring a college student and have interviewed a few girls and they have all been asking for $20 for 2 hours after school for 1 and sometimes 2 kids.

Anonymous wrote:We pay $26/hr for a 6 and 2 year old in NW DC. 6 year old obviously is in school most of the day. Stared at $24 two years ago, $1 raise per year. She is a pleasant and competent nanny. I don’t doubt these $30+ rates, but saying that is the minimum is not my experience.

Yep this is us $26 above board for 2 kids. I don’t know anyone paying $30. Most of
my friends employed before Covid and are paying wayyyy lower.

We pay $26/hr for a 6 and 2 year old in NW DC. 6 year old obviously is in school most of the day. Stared at $24 two years ago, $1 raise per year. She is a pleasant and competent nanny. I don’t doubt these $30+ rates, but saying that is the minimum is not my experience.