Going rate for infant and toddler?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For 2 kids I charge $25/hr right now. And I won't do any household tasks beyond what we immediately use (i.e. I will not do a pile of the children laundry, but I might pre-treat a stain and toss it in the wash if it happened while I was with them. Also I won't do a sink full of dishes but I will wash or load the dishes we used at meal time.)

Ridiculous

Assuming a 40 hour week, That's more than the avg starting salary last year for teachers in the tristate area

http://www.nea.org/home/2012-2013-average-starting-teacher-salary.html

Give us all a break, honey.

So the lesson here is don't be a teacher, be a nanny. Not sure what exactly you are trying to prove with your link.

[Anonymous]

We live in Baltimore. Our nanny makes $20/hour for 1 infant and 1 toddler, but she is extremely experienced, citizen, fluent in English drives (and brings her own car, we pay for mileage), degree in early childhood ed, etc. Not sure what the overall rate is. 40 hrs/week.

FYI, she does do all our child laundry, clean up dishes that she uses, and goes through and arranges clothing and toys. She does not do housekeeping unrelated to child care, but the PP who refuses to do anything but pretreat stains is an extreme case, and we would not hire someone with those issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous



We live in Baltimore. Our nanny makes $20/hour for 1 infant and 1 toddler, but she is extremely experienced, citizen, fluent in English drives (and brings her own car, we pay for mileage), degree in early childhood ed, etc. Not sure what the overall rate is. 40 hrs/week.

FYI, she does do all our child laundry, clean up dishes that she uses, and goes through and arranges clothing and toys. She does not do housekeeping unrelated to child care, but the PP who refuses to do anything but pretreat stains is an extreme case, and we would not hire someone with those issues.

You are doing it right. Whoever is employing a nanny who refuses to do child related laundry and housekeeping is being taken advantage of. These are standard nanny duties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For 2 kids I charge $25/hr right now. And I won't do any household tasks beyond what we immediately use (i.e. I will not do a pile of the children laundry, but I might pre-treat a stain and toss it in the wash if it happened while I was with them. Also I won't do a sink full of dishes but I will wash or load the dishes we used at meal time.)

What a rip off. You sound really lazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For 2 kids I charge $25/hr right now. And I won't do any household tasks beyond what we immediately use (i.e. I will not do a pile of the children laundry, but I might pre-treat a stain and toss it in the wash if it happened while I was with them. Also I won't do a sink full of dishes but I will wash or load the dishes we used at meal time.)

What a rip off. You sound really lazy.

Wow. She's the nanny, not the housekeeper. What a concept for some of you.

[Anonymous]

$24 low end, $28 high end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For 2 kids I charge $25/hr right now. And I won't do any household tasks beyond what we immediately use (i.e. I will not do a pile of the children laundry, but I might pre-treat a stain and toss it in the wash if it happened while I was with them. Also I won't do a sink full of dishes but I will wash or load the dishes we used at meal time.)

What a rip off. You sound really lazy.

Wow. She's the nanny, not the housekeeper. What a concept for some of you.

The two are not mutually exclusive. I don't expect the nanny to do anything that I would not do myself. For serious cleaning yes I will either pay her extra or hire a service. Here is a shocker she actually likes cleaning and asks for extra cleaning work on the weekends. May be lazy people are ok with lazy nannies. I bust my but at work and I expect our nanny to work hard too. What is so wrong with that? We are by the way very generous with benefits etc and flexible with her schedule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$24 low end, $28 high end.

Put the Crack pipe down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For 2 kids I charge $25/hr right now. And I won't do any household tasks beyond what we immediately use (i.e. I will not do a pile of the children laundry, but I might pre-treat a stain and toss it in the wash if it happened while I was with them. Also I won't do a sink full of dishes but I will wash or load the dishes we used at meal time.)

What a rip off. You sound really lazy.

Wow. She's the nanny, not the housekeeper. What a concept for some of you.

YIKES That nanny does sound incredibly lazy. What's always in the back of my mind during all 4 days of my 11-hour workdays, is "What can I do to make these people's life easier?" And if it's appropriate for me to do (I would not, say, do the parents' laundry), and if I have the time, then I do it. This is anything from wiping counters/stovetop, cleaning & tidying up as much as I can, putting kids' clothes away, maybe replacing an overflowing trash bag, etc.) Little things that make a big difference. No I am NOT a housekeeper. But what I've just described could barely be called housekeeping. My family hires a weekly housekeeper as well... and the stuff I see her do I would certainly never do as a nanny!! (Clean toilets, mop floors, vacuum...) There are DIFFERENCES between being a nanny who has manners & likes to help out and being selfish and refusing to help because you're "not a housekeeper." A sinkful of dishes in the morning... you're seriously going to leave that sitting there all day? Just because the parents were too busy to take care of it before you came? I can't believe you are worth $25/hr.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For 2 kids I charge $25/hr right now. And I won't do any household tasks beyond what we immediately use (i.e. I will not do a pile of the children laundry, but I might pre-treat a stain and toss it in the wash if it happened while I was with them. Also I won't do a sink full of dishes but I will wash or load the dishes we used at meal time.)

What a rip off. You sound really lazy.

Wow. She's the nanny, not the housekeeper. What a concept for some of you.

YIKES That nanny does sound incredibly lazy. What's always in the back of my mind during all 4 days of my 11-hour workdays, is "What can I do to make these people's life easier?" And if it's appropriate for me to do (I would not, say, do the parents' laundry), and if I have the time, then I do it. This is anything from wiping counters/stovetop, cleaning & tidying up as much as I can, putting kids' clothes away, maybe replacing an overflowing trash bag, etc.) Little things that make a big difference. No I am NOT a housekeeper. But what I've just described could barely be called housekeeping. My family hires a weekly housekeeper as well... and the stuff I see her do I would certainly never do as a nanny!! (Clean toilets, mop floors, vacuum...) There are DIFFERENCES between being a nanny who has manners & likes to help out and being selfish and refusing to help because you're "not a housekeeper." A sinkful of dishes in the morning... you're seriously going to leave that sitting there all day? Just because the parents were too busy to take care of it before you came? I can't believe you are worth $25/hr.

Only a truly filthy person can walk around a sink full of dishes. Also, don't believe that "nanny" is making $25/hr. She's probably an unemployed former Kindercare employee.