How much should I expect to pay for this?

[Anonymous]

Why are you on a nanny forum? Post your job in the housekeeping section and see what rates people give you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Monday 12-6 (early dismissal school)
Tuesday 12-6
Wednesday 2-10
Thursday 2-6
Friday 12-6
Total 30 hours per week

Laundry, tidying up, dishes, pick up son from kindergarten, give him a snack, fix dinner 2-3x per week.
Thorough deep clean every 2 weeks.

Is $500/week reasonable for 30 hours per week?

I think you could easily find someone for a fair rate for everything OTHER than for the deep cleaning part. Sorry, but most people that would want to take this position will NOT want to deep clean for you. You are better off hiring a separate cleaner to come in once every 2 weeks to do this, and someone that comes for the childcare and basic child-related cleaning throughout the week.

I agree.

OR, offer the deep cleaning job to your nanny but as a completely independent job that she is paid for separately (basically you'd be hiring her to do what your cleaners do, and probably at the same rate they charge - you could negotiate to make it a little lower if she did it during regular nanny hours, or pay her the full rate if she did the deep cleaning as an extension of one of her days).

That reminds me that I forgot to ask WHEN the deep cleaning was to be done? During those hours above when she has the child? No one is going to be deep cleaning anything while with the child. People don't even like to deep clean with a child AROUND, much less one that they are supposed to be watching as well. So the deep cleaning really would have to be dealt with separately, with a different schedule and a different pay rate than the approx $16/hr for childcare.

OP again. Our nanny actually asked us if we could give her the deep clean role sometime last year when we let her go from FT to PT due to our younger child starting preschool. She did not do nearly as good of a job. I gave her the benefit of the doubt and gave her a second chance. Our family left Saturday morning and told her we would pay her a set rate and that she could leave when she was done cleaning. She ended up doing even less than what she normally does except she barely cleaned the bathrooms. The hourly rate was quadruple what we normally pay her because she left in 2 hours.

We went back to our cleaning people and our nanny only spot cleans for us.

That sounds like the best thing then. Most people won't want to do deep cleaning, and the ones that say they will, either don't do as good of a job (because they are not professionals at cleaning) or they realize they don't enjoy it and become lazy about it. Most that take on this aspect only do it to try and get more hours, like you said, when going from FT to PT. They really should just either find another PT position to go with their current one, or get a new FT position instead of taking on more cleaning.