Any objective sources for nanny salaries?

[Anonymous]

"It all varies by location, live-in or live-out, ages of the charges, responsibilities, etc. "

yep. And it varies by simply how long a nanny has been with a family. The same nanny earning $21/hr for 40 hours because she's been there 5 years may not be able to replicate that w/ another family and may have to take something lower in her next job - doesn't make her less qualified - just accounts for the fact that the prior family had given multiple year raises whereas the new one is starting back over closer to open market rates.

[Anonymous]

If a nanny is tops, she should not have to drop her rates for a new family, unless of course, she's using an agency. 99% of agencies don't know how to represent a high-end nanny. They have no insentive to do the extra work it takes.
Most of my jobs come to me from recommendations of former employers.

[Anonymous]

"If a nanny is tops, she should not have to drop her rates for a new family"

sure, if she's "tops" but there are many nannies that are just good and were w/ families for many years - they are not stellar; they were just loyal and good enough to be retained long term. Just because a 'tops" nanny can duplicate a high salary, does not mean it is the AVERAGE/typical outcome. When people are talking about general rates, it is avg/typical that is most important - not the outliers that do exist but are rarer.

[Anonymous]

I have never in my life met a nanny who made $30 an hour. Only the delusional nannies on this site would say something like this, lol.

[Anonymous]

PP again - I said I have never met any nanny who makes 30+ an hour. I've heard of celeb nannies making alot or a nanny working for a high profile family. That's about it.

[Anonymous]

What's the highest paid nanny that you know of?

[Anonymous]

If a nanny is tops, she should not have to drop her rates for a new family,

So untrue and unrealistic. You really have no knowledge of economics. Lets take the example that you were responding to of the nanny who was making $21 an hour because she had been in her position for 5 years.

With annual $1 raises and no salary raises for additional children this nanny started $16 an hour. Its more likely that a nanny who has been with a family for 5 years has seen additional children which would have been a $1-$2 salary bump. This situation with annual $1 raises puts her starting salary $14-$15 an hour.

A nanny who was competitive at $14-$15 an hour 5 years ago is NOT competitive at $21 an hour now. The market has decreased or stayed flat in the past 5 years and there certainly hasn't been a 30% increase in nanny salaries. Five years of experience is not a significant enough distinguisher to make a difference between $14-$16 and $21. She may have finished a degree but even this would not jump her $7 an hour over her previous starting salary. A nanny who doesn't drop her rates for a new job has either a had short term jobs and/or no pay increases w/ a longer term job or b hit the jackpot out of sheer luck.

[Anonymous]

Is there any other profession where you are expected to earn less, ONLY because it's a new job, or would you say this phenomon is unique to nannies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there any other profession where you are expected to earn less, ONLY because it's a new job, or would you say this phenomon is unique to nannies?

What's different about nannies is the relatively high rate of job turnover combined with expectations of significant raises.

[Anonymous]

Turnover nannies are the poorly paid ones, -just like poorly paid daycare and fast food workers. Well compensated elite nannies tend to prefer their stable employment status. Not rocket science, my friend.

[Anonymous]

Is there any other profession where you are expected to earn less, ONLY because it's a new job, or would you say this phenomon is unique to nannies?

Its not unique to being a nanny. All jobs have market ceilings. The way people make more money or even the same money at a new job is not by making a lateral move to the same job but by moving upward to a higher level position with higher compensation. Nannies take the same jobs over and over again every few years.

[Anonymous]

"What's the highest paid nanny that you know of?"

$18/hr for one child in NW DC is the highest I know of from actual people, as opposed to this site, where nannies routinely inflate their rates.

[Anonymous]

The way that high-earning nannies maintain and even grow their economic success, is to limit their picking to families who value whatever unique skills the nanny has to offer, that they can't seem to find to the bargain basement nanny pool.

[Anonymous]

I'm a level headed nanny, not from the DC area but live in a big city and I can tell you most nannies here make anywhere from $15-20 per hour. These are nannies with degrees and 10+ years experience. I've never heard of a nanny making $30 an hour. I think it's really sad when people come on this forum and flat out lie about what they are making. Once in awhile you will find a family who may pay you $25 an hour for occasional babysitting but that is not the norm. Just felt like I needed to share the truth.

[Anonymous]

I would think that people who pay the nanny 25 and 30 an hour, are to busy earning their money, to have time to be sitting on nanny forums. Just can't see a very successful business owner or physician or even an attorney (gasp!) wasting their time around here. It's usually (real) work and family.