paying Nannies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you all nannies feel the same. My sister who came to US 15 years ago and she was paid $15/hr nanny job. How come it's 2014 and family are offering less or $15 hr. What is this?

You don't restart every nanny job with one infant and the same rate as you left with two or three elementary age kids. You're cinstantly restarting and working up and then may even get priced out if you can't or won't do more household management things.

I hope you don't think your "sister" got $15/ hour 15 years ago now should get $30. You get market rate. If you need more money find a different line of work or do nanny shares or only choose families with many kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you all nannies feel the same. My sister who came to US 15 years ago and she was paid $15/hr nanny job. How come it's 2014 and family are offering less or $15 hr. What is this?

You don't restart every nanny job with one infant and the same rate as you left with two or three elementary age kids. You're cinstantly restarting and working up and then may even get priced out if you can't or won't do more household management things.

I hope you don't think your "sister" got $15/ hour 15 years ago now should get $30. You get market rate. If you need more money find a different line of work or do nanny shares or only choose families with many kids.

I don't see why the number of kids would change the rate a nanny gets.

[Anonymous]

Prior experience does play a part in my rate. I do not go back to $12 an hour because I'm with a new family.

PP highlights an additional piece of the low wage puzzle.
Nannies are passive when it comes to negotiating pay.

[Anonymous]

Do you all nannies feel the same. My sister who came to US 15 years ago and she was paid $15/hr nanny job. How come it's 2014 and family are offering less or $15 hr. What is this?

You don't restart every nanny job with one infant and the same rate as you left with two or three elementary age kids. You're cinstantly restarting and working up and then may even get priced out if you can't or won't do more household management things.

I hope you don't think your "sister" got $15/ hour 15 years ago now should get $30. You get market rate. If you need more money find a different line of work or do nanny shares or only choose families with many kids.


I don't see why the number of kids would change the rate a nanny gets.

Really? It doesn't make sense to you that caring for three kids is more difficult than one and thus worth a higher rate?

While nanny's experience and perhaps schooling might allow her to command a higher rate, for the most part, it is the job that determines the market rate, which is unfortunate for nannies who want to spend 20 years in this field. I'm not sure nannying as a career is a good idea, since every year the market gets flooded with more people who can call themselves a nanny without any experience or qualifications. But, I suppose if you want to, you hustle with every job change to stay above market.

As for the nannies who think they call the shots, you really don't. Maybe you found a family, right now, who agreed to your conditions for hire, but if you were to do anything out of line with their expectations, they would let you go without thinking about it. They have many choices for childcare, especially if they are paying above market for you. That's not calling the shots. You really are like every other employee in America, and everyone knows that the employer always calls the shots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you all nannies feel the same. My sister who came to US 15 years ago and she was paid $15/hr nanny job. How come it's 2014 and family are offering less or $15 hr. What is this?

You don't restart every nanny job with one infant and the same rate as you left with two or three elementary age kids. You're cinstantly restarting and working up and then may even get priced out if you can't or won't do more household management things.

I hope you don't think your "sister" got $15/ hour 15 years ago now should get $30. You get market rate. If you need more money find a different line of work or do nanny shares or only choose families with many kids.

I don't see why the number of kids would change the rate a nanny gets.

good! then when I go from 1 kid to 2 kids next year I will keep your rate the same once I'm back at work.