$300 - $400 per hour ?

[Anonymous]

PP... Just not the pay

[Anonymous]

Where's your source, OP?

[Anonymous]

$300 isn't the salary for a lawyer, it must cover all costs including overhead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's silly to compare a nanny to a law school graduate. Some nannies haven't even finished high school, much less college.
And in the United States, how many law school graduates do you know that cannot speak English fluently? Because there are plenty of nannies that do not speak English fluently (if at all) who are still hired.

It's apples and oranges.

are you serious? ugh.

[Anonymous]

As long as there are short-sighted parents, there will a glut of illegal foreigners willing to work the slave trade. They will live in your basement closet or share a rental with six other families, so they can send their stipend, back to "their" country.
Many of these people, living under these unimaginable conditions, eventually explode. You hope it doesn't happen with your kid in tow.
Oh, but she seemed so nice. And she was all I could afford. Right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where's your source, OP?

For what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where's your source, OP?

For what?

You claim a law school graduate makes $300-400 starting out; right? What is your source for that claim?

[Anonymous]

You do realize the AVERAGE salary for a lawyer is $90,000/yr, right? It's not nearly so high as people think, especially given the cost for law school.

$300-400 hourly includes overhead - their secretaries are paid from that, the lights in their offices, the rent on their offices, etc.

Plus everyone acknowledges that the current legal business model is on a path to failure because it is...guess what?..too expensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You do realize the AVERAGE salary for a lawyer is $90,000/yr, right? It's not nearly so high as people think, especially given the cost for law school.

$300-400 hourly includes overhead - their secretaries are paid from that, the lights in their offices, the rent on their offices, etc.


Plus everyone acknowledges that the current legal business model is on a path to failure because it is...guess what?..too expensive.

Which city are you in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You do realize the AVERAGE salary for a lawyer is $90,000/yr, right? It's not nearly so high as people think, especially given the cost for law school.

$300-400 hourly includes overhead - their secretaries are paid from that, the lights in their offices, the rent on their offices, etc.


Plus everyone acknowledges that the current legal business model is on a path to failure because it is...guess what?..too expensive.

Which city are you in?

DC, but that number was given to me by a lawyer relative in Florida and represents the US nation-wide. It was as of maybe 2010? I'm sure the average skews higher in big cities.

[Anonymous]

All b/c a law firm charges $400/hour for an attorney doesn't mean that the attorney is bringing home $400/hour. Geez people...are you really that stupid?

There are not "a lot" of nanny jobs that pay $30/hour. There are a lot of nannies who think they are worth that amount and wish they made that amount, but no...

Nannies...please get this through your thick skulls. Your worth (i.e., salary) as a nanny is not based on how much your employer brings home, okay? Just like the price of a good meal, or the services of a hair dresser or landscaper or whatever, doesn't change due to the consumer's income...nor does your salary. If you want to get paid $30/hour, then fine - market yourself for that income. The people who can pay for it and want you for that $$$ will hire you. But if you can't find a job for that amount of $$, don't bitch about employers being "cheap". Trust me, we aren't the ones with the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All b/c a law firm charges $400/hour for an attorney doesn't mean that the attorney is bringing home $400/hour. Geez people...are you really that stupid?

There are not "a lot" of nanny jobs that pay $30/hour. There are a lot of nannies who think they are worth that amount and wish they made that amount, but no...

Nannies...please get this through your thick skulls. Your worth (i.e., salary) as a nanny is not based on how much your employer brings home, okay? Just like the price of a good meal, or the services of a hair dresser or landscaper or whatever, doesn't change due to the consumer's income...nor does your salary. If you want to get paid $30/hour, then fine - market yourself for that income. The people who can pay for it and want you for that $$$ will hire you. But if you can't find a job for that amount of $$, don't bitch about employers being "cheap". Trust me, we aren't the ones with the problem.

I agree with PP, but I do want to add that there ARE cheap employers - I just wouldn't define them as people who refuse/don't/can't pay $30/hr! In a big city an employer who drops below $15/hr gross is cheap, imo, but that's a far cry from the high-end nannies we're talking about.

-Nanny

[Anonymous]

It's like any kind of education. There's basic, on the low end, and elite, on the high end. The middle range is where most people are, both the nannies and the parents.

There are relatively few "elite" nannies available, and just as few, very wealthy parents who can afford them. The elite nannies rarely come on the market, and when they do, they often have their choice of attractive offers. After all, their appreciative employers have been talking them up, for years.

[Anonymous]

OP, there's a difference between what lawyers bill clients at, and what they take home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
It's like any kind of education. There's basic, on the low end, and elite, on the high end. The middle range is where most people are, both the nannies and the parents.

There are relatively few "elite" nannies available, and just as few, very wealthy parents who can afford them. The elite nannies rarely come on the market, and when they do, they often have their choice of attractive offers. After all, their appreciative employers have been talking them up, for years.

This.