Newborn Baby rates are $20-30/hr + PLUS your older children if you have some.

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Anonymous wrote:Please. When my son was an infant I had people clamoring at my door for $16/hr. There are more nannies than employers. Guess what happens in that case?

Baby nurses cost a lot more than 16/hr, but you can always find a cheap warm body for hire.

Nurses are expensive.

Babies don't need nurses unless there are issues. (Parents might opt to hire nurses if they wish that level of expertise of course.)

Healthy babies really aren't that hard to care for, even twins.

"Baby nurse" doesn't refer to an actual RN. She's simply who you hire for a newborn, as she's very experienced with them.

How many sets of multiples have you worked with?

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Anonymous wrote:Why is it so hard for some of you to get it through your thick heads that there are nannies out there making $30 (or even more) an hour? Certainly not everyone, but there are jobs out there that pay that. I'm currently caring for infant triplets and get paid $30/hour! I also have a Master's degree, CPR/First Aid, a lot of experience, excellent long term references, etc...

To the person who said baby nurses make $20/hr. I know a a lot of baby nurses and they all typically make more than $20/hr, especially if they are working at night.

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If there were "tons of resources" out there with actual data on nanny wages, we wouldn't have the constant questions on this forum asking about the full range of real nanny wages.

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Anonymous wrote:Professional nannies do not do your housekeeping. People who can afford them, have housekeepers to clean the house.

I think that depends on what you mean by housekeeping. Yes, most people who can afford a professional nanny have someone else whose job it is to clean the house. Often that someone else is a cleaning service that comes in weekly or bi-monthly. Many dual-career professional families need additional housekeeping help with things like laundry, daily tidying, sweeping between cleaning service visits, and family meal prep. It is not uncommon for professional nannies to do some or all of this, especially when they work with school-aged children.

School-aged children need to fold their own laundry, not the housekeeper.

I work with school-age children and frankly, I wouldn't want them to do it during the week. The parents are never home and the kids are over-scheduled. As it is, the kids barely ge their homework done each night.

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Anonymous wrote:Professional nannies do not do your housekeeping. People who can afford them, have housekeepers to clean the house.

I think that depends on what you mean by housekeeping. Yes, most people who can afford a professional nanny have someone else whose job it is to clean the house. Often that someone else is a cleaning service that comes in weekly or bi-monthly. Many dual-career professional families need additional housekeeping help with things like laundry, daily tidying, sweeping between cleaning service visits, and family meal prep. It is not uncommon for professional nannies to do some or all of this, especially when they work with school-aged children.

School-aged children need to fold their own laundry, not the housekeeper.

I work with school-age children and frankly, I wouldn't want them to do it during the week. The parents are never home and the kids are over-scheduled. As it is, the kids barely ge their homework done each night.

What daily household chores do they have?

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When you hire a professional to help with your child, you can take advantage of her knowledge/experience, and learn some very useful things.

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Anonymous wrote:Professional nannies do not do your housekeeping. People who can afford them, have housekeepers to clean the house.

I think that depends on what you mean by housekeeping. Yes, most people who can afford a professional nanny have someone else whose job it is to clean the house. Often that someone else is a cleaning service that comes in weekly or bi-monthly. Many dual-career professional families need additional housekeeping help with things like laundry, daily tidying, sweeping between cleaning service visits, and family meal prep. It is not uncommon for professional nannies to do some or all of this, especially when they work with school-aged children.

School-aged children need to fold their own laundry, not the housekeeper.

I work with school-age children and frankly, I wouldn't want them to do it during the week. The parents are never home and the kids are over-scheduled. As it is, the kids barely ge their homework done each night.

What daily household chores do they have?

Depends on the family. I'm willing to do everything up to full housekeeping, providing that they pay for it, and that it's only while kids are in school. During breaks and summers, the kids do the housework with me, and a portion gets left for the parents to do.

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Anonymous wrote:Professional nannies do not do your housekeeping. People who can afford them, have housekeepers to clean the house.

I think that depends on what you mean by housekeeping. Yes, most people who can afford a professional nanny have someone else whose job it is to clean the house. Often that someone else is a cleaning service that comes in weekly or bi-monthly. Many dual-career professional families need additional housekeeping help with things like laundry, daily tidying, sweeping between cleaning service visits, and family meal prep. It is not uncommon for professional nannies to do some or all of this, especially when they work with school-aged children.

School-aged children need to fold their own laundry, not the housekeeper.

I work with school-age children and frankly, I wouldn't want them to do it during the week. The parents are never home and the kids are over-scheduled. As it is, the kids barely ge their homework done each night.

What daily household chores do they have?

Depends on the family. I'm willing to do everything up to full housekeeping, providing that they pay for it, and that it's only while kids are in school. During breaks and summers, the kids do the housework with me, and a portion gets left for the parents to do.

There's nothing like solid healthy boundaries. Kudos to you. What a lucky family to have you as an excellent example for their children. I hope you're well-compensated for your expertise.

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Anonymous wrote:$30 PLUS an amount for additional kids, OP's title says! We should all quit and become newborn nannies!

Most people can't manage the work on a professional level.

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If you get paid that, great. That just means that anyone making 120k will just about break even after paying the nanny. Accounting for emotional rewards of taking care of you baby, most moms making less than 170k will probably not choose to work. Sure, insist on these rates. About 80% of newborn nanny jobs just disappeared into thin air for you. * Blip.*

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You're free to make that the rate you charge. You're not entitled to a job, however, so it's up to you to find a job at a rate you're willing to accept - because nannies compete in the market place for their jobs, just like the rest of us. We don't sit at home and invent our salaries. If you can find a job at this rate, kuddos to you! If not, reality will speak for itself and 9 pages of debate on a forum won't change that.

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Anonymous wrote:If you get paid that, great. That just means that anyone making 120k will just about break even after paying the nanny. Accounting for emotional rewards of taking care of you baby, most moms making less than 170k will probably not choose to work. Sure, insist on these rates. About 80% of newborn nanny jobs just disappeared into thin air for you. * Blip.*

Newborn caregivers are for the rich, not the wannabe rich.
Btw, your baby isn't a newborn for a whole year, hon.

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Newborn and infant care requires much more knowledge and experience than the care of an older child.

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OP and her ilk are full of shit.

I make a flat 62k/yr caring for triplets. This is the very high end for nanny rates. I'm college educated and was born in the US. My rate is not the norm and is high.

When this job is over, I'd be a FOOL to think it will be easy to find another nanny job that pays as well. This kind of nanny pay is few and far between.

Carry on with the bullshit.