Annual/col raise for nanny?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, the best way to approach this is to ask for an annual performance review. Put in writing what your job responsibilities are and anything you feel is above and beyond. Ask that your employer puts her evaluation of your work on paper. Use both to justify why you believe you deserve a raise.

Do this every year on your anniversary. Also use this time to revisit or amend your contract if your job description changes, or if you are granted additional benefits.

If you are doing an above average job, you can prove it and justify a raise. You are also showing great initiative for improving your job by asking for a performance review.

GL.

MB here and I think this is very good advice. We give annual raises, and a year end holiday bonus, to our nanny. She does a great job and we want to keep her, and I certainly hope for and want annual raises myself - so we do the same for her.

I think your employers are doing you a disservice but maybe (being generous) they're just being clueless. I would absolutely request a meeting to talk about their satisfaciton w/ your performance, address any concerns they may have, and ask them to consider a raise for you.

Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I ask (and have received) a raise every year on my anniversary. Usually $1 an hour but in my current job I asked for and received $2 an hour increase. I've never waited to see if my employer offered.

Horrible. I'd fire you on the spot if you asked for $2 an hour bump. If you were hired at and ok with $12 an hour for two years why would I ever feel inclined to bump it to $14??

You're not a professional anything, are you? In the real world employees ask for raises and are approved or denied, not fired for the request.

And being a nanny isn't a normal job. Nannies are paid well from the start, not gouged with minimum wage starting salaries. In the corporate world as you get raises you get more duties, nannies do not. Their job becomes easier as the child ages and they become easier to replace, not harder. If nannies want to start out at $8.50 an hour and get yearly raises then that is fine. But to start out making double digits for babysitting and then demand more is ridiculous.

Sorry that the world doesn't work the way that you would like it to. We started our nanny at $18 and have given her a raise every year since her hire. We'd never have gotten her qualifications and experience for $8.50 an hour nor do we want to hire someone at a salary that would qualify them for food stamps and medicaid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, the best way to approach this is to ask for an annual performance review. Put in writing what your job responsibilities are and anything you feel is above and beyond. Ask that your employer puts her evaluation of your work on paper. Use both to justify why you believe you deserve a raise.

Do this every year on your anniversary. Also use this time to revisit or amend your contract if your job description changes, or if you are granted additional benefits.

If you are doing an above average job, you can prove it and justify a raise. You are also showing great initiative for improving your job by asking for a performance review.

GL.

MB here and I think this is very good advice. We give annual raises, and a year end holiday bonus, to our nanny. She does a great job and we want to keep her, and I certainly hope for and want annual raises myself - so we do the same for her.

I think your employers are doing you a disservice but maybe (being generous) they're just being clueless. I would absolutely request a meeting to talk about their satisfaciton w/ your performance, address any concerns they may have, and ask them to consider a raise for you.

Good luck.

I agree. (OP here) Thanks for the advice. I think I will try to do this within the next couple of weeks. I agree, also, that I wish my employers would just take the initiative and offer a raise (since I'm so not a confrontational person, even though I know it's not a "confrontation" per se, but you know what I mean.) But hey, I suppose that's not the way the world works! I will let you know how it goes!

One more thing that makes me hesitant is the fact that, as someone mentioned earlier, my job will technically get "easier" in the Fall, when all three will be at preschool/school for 9 hours out of my 48 hr work week. So I feel that a raise would definitely be deserved throughout the summer but feel kind-of bad about getting paid more for a less demanding job starting in September. Would it be weird to ask for a temporary raise just in the summer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, the best way to approach this is to ask for an annual performance review. Put in writing what your job responsibilities are and anything you feel is above and beyond. Ask that your employer puts her evaluation of your work on paper. Use both to justify why you believe you deserve a raise.

Do this every year on your anniversary. Also use this time to revisit or amend your contract if your job description changes, or if you are granted additional benefits.

If you are doing an above average job, you can prove it and justify a raise. You are also showing great initiative for improving your job by asking for a performance review.

GL.

MB here and I think this is very good advice. We give annual raises, and a year end holiday bonus, to our nanny. She does a great job and we want to keep her, and I certainly hope for and want annual raises myself - so we do the same for her.

I think your employers are doing you a disservice but maybe (being generous) they're just being clueless. I would absolutely request a meeting to talk about their satisfaciton w/ your performance, address any concerns they may have, and ask them to consider a raise for you.

Good luck.

I agree. (OP here) Thanks for the advice. I think I will try to do this within the next couple of weeks. I agree, also, that I wish my employers would just take the initiative and offer a raise (since I'm so not a confrontational person, even though I know it's not a "confrontation" per se, but you know what I mean.) But hey, I suppose that's not the way the world works! I will let you know how it goes!

One more thing that makes me hesitant is the fact that, as someone mentioned earlier, my job will technically get "easier" in the Fall, when all three will be at preschool/school for 9 hours out of my 48 hr work week. So I feel that a raise would definitely be deserved throughout the summer but feel kind-of bad about getting paid more for a less demanding job starting in September. Would it be weird to ask for a temporary raise just in the summer?

Don't negotiate with yourself. Ask for the raise and see what they say. Don't go into already negotiating yourself down. Let them tell you how they feel about the fall. They may feel really silly once you bring up a raise, and realize that it is long overdue.

[Anonymous]

9:23 here. I agree w/ PP - don't negotiate yourself out of the conversation before it's already happened. But given what will be happening in the fall, perhaps you frame the conversation you're requesting a little differently.

"I know that things will be changing a bit this fall when the kids are in preschool for a few hours, so I'd like to talk about how that might change my role or what you need from me. I also would like to touch base about your long-term plans. I have enjoyed my two years with your family very much, but am wondering whether you plan to keep me on, whether there are opportunities for raises or additional benefits to be discussed, or how you might see my role evolving as the kids grow."