Two questions, one post: Regarding overnight pay and downtime for only child

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP they aren't expecting to pay less than your regular hourly rate for awake times. Please don't sell yourself short by offering to cut your rate!! You're harming yourself and other nannies as a whole. Keep your $20/he awake rate and offer to do the overnights for $0-$50 instead. Please please think this through.

Harming nannies as a whole? What a silly comment.

OP, your rate sounds fair.

The child sounds draining, tbh. I agree about setting up play dates. Or plan outings so you can be walking around and doing things instead of having to sit and play games in the house

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you thinking of halving your regular hourly rate? I'm sure the parents aren't expecting that...

Who the bleep are you and why do you keep commenting that a family won't be expecting the nanny to charge her regular hourly rate for daytime (awake) hours? Why WOULDN'T she be charging her normal rate? That is her rate. The parents have already agreed to it and pay it. What, is someone supposed to work for half of their rate just because the parents want to go out of town without bringing their kids along for 2+ days?

WTF is your problem? I asked why the OP wants to charge HALF of her normal rate. I said she is UNDERSELLING herself and HARMING herself and other nannies.

You and I completely agree on this point. Where we differ is our opinion of your reading comprehension ability.

Again, I said sorry. I was reading very tiny print on my phone and I missed a single letter, but it was enough of a difference to then change the meaning of the whole sentence.

[Anonymous]

OP, I think you're right to not charge the parents your fully loaded hourly rate, but I also think you don't need to go quite as low as you're thinking.

I would say quote them $15/hr for the awake time (since this is a pretty high energy/demanding kid) and then either $50 or $75 per night for the sleeping time.

If you want to give them a price break I would do it on the overnight rate ($50 instead of 75 for instance) rather than on your hourly rate. $15 versus 20 is already significant consideration. I think if you go below that they'll start really questioning the $20 amount. There's no need to undercut yourself so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP they aren't expecting to pay less than your regular hourly rate for awake times. Please don't sell yourself short by offering to cut your rate!! You're harming yourself and other nannies as a whole. Keep your $20/he awake rate and offer to do the overnights for $0-$50 instead. Please please think this through.

Harming nannies as a whole? What a silly comment.

OP, your rate sounds fair.

The child sounds draining, tbh. I agree about setting up play dates. Or plan outings so you can be walking around and doing things instead of having to sit and play games in the house

Charging half of what she normally makes is "fair"?

I'd love to see all you nannies respond if she said, "My MB asked me to work 58 hours straight but instead of my regular $20/hr she's only going to pay me $10/hr!" HAVE A FIELD DAY WITH YOUR HYPOCRISY, ladies.