2014 Holiday Bonus Survey

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting ... the San Diego nanny with the $23/hr salary is thinking of leaving her job b/c of no bonus, while the Orange County nanny who makes $15-$16/hr is "very happy" with her $1000 bonus.

SD nanny makes almost $41,000/yr for 34 hours a week.
OC nanny makes, at most, before taxes, $33,300/yr. We'll add the $1000 to that.

SD nanny makes $7000 a year more, for almost one day less work each week, and yet may quit over this bonus.

This is not a rare sentiment on this board. As a MB, the message I keep getting from nannies here is to offer a low starting salary, because nannies value raises and bonuses more than earning more money altogether.

Not all of us think this way.
My only guess is that the nannies with this view are very young and not considering the whole picture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting ... the San Diego nanny with the $23/hr salary is thinking of leaving her job b/c of no bonus, while the Orange County nanny who makes $15-$16/hr is "very happy" with her $1000 bonus.

SD nanny makes almost $41,000/yr for 34 hours a week.
OC nanny makes, at most, before taxes, $33,300/yr. We'll add the $1000 to that.

SD nanny makes $7000 a year more, for almost one day less work each week, and yet may quit over this bonus.

This is not a rare sentiment on this board. As a MB, the message I keep getting from nannies here is to offer a low starting salary, because nannies value raises and bonuses more than earning more money altogether.

Nannies are not the brightest crayon in the bag.

Generalizations are out this season.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting ... the San Diego nanny with the $23/hr salary is thinking of leaving her job b/c of no bonus, while the Orange County nanny who makes $15-$16/hr is "very happy" with her $1000 bonus.

SD nanny makes almost $41,000/yr for 34 hours a week.
OC nanny makes, at most, before taxes, $33,300/yr. We'll add the $1000 to that.

SD nanny makes $7000 a year more, for almost one day less work each week, and yet may quit over this bonus.

This is not a rare sentiment on this board. As a MB, the message I keep getting from nannies here is to offer a low starting salary, because nannies value raises and bonuses more than earning more money altogether.

Nannies are not the brightest crayon in the bag.

23:01 here. She said thar her employers were "generally thoughtless." I think that explains her attitude. It's not all about the money when you provide a personal service day in and day out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting ... the San Diego nanny with the $23/hr salary is thinking of leaving her job b/c of no bonus, while the Orange County nanny who makes $15-$16/hr is "very happy" with her $1000 bonus.

SD nanny makes almost $41,000/yr for 34 hours a week.
OC nanny makes, at most, before taxes, $33,300/yr. We'll add the $1000 to that.

SD nanny makes $7000 a year more, for almost one day less work each week, and yet may quit over this bonus.

This is not a rare sentiment on this board. As a MB, the message I keep getting from nannies here is to offer a low starting salary, because nannies value raises and bonuses more than earning more money altogether.

Nannies are not the brightest crayon in the bag.

23:01 here. She said thar her employers were "generally thoughtless." I think that explains her attitude. It's not all about the money when you provide a personal service day in and day out.

She also said she loved her job.

How can you love your job but be ready to quit?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting ... the San Diego nanny with the $23/hr salary is thinking of leaving her job b/c of no bonus, while the Orange County nanny who makes $15-$16/hr is "very happy" with her $1000 bonus.

SD nanny makes almost $41,000/yr for 34 hours a week.
OC nanny makes, at most, before taxes, $33,300/yr. We'll add the $1000 to that.

SD nanny makes $7000 a year more, for almost one day less work each week, and yet may quit over this bonus.

This is not a rare sentiment on this board. As a MB, the message I keep getting from nannies here is to offer a low starting salary, because nannies value raises and bonuses more than earning more money altogether.

Nannies are not the brightest crayon in the bag.

23:01 here. She said thar her employers were "generally thoughtless." I think that explains her attitude. It's not all about the money when you provide a personal service day in and day out.

She also said she loved her job.

How can you love your job but be ready to quit?

Most of us love our jobs. 90% of the time, when a nanny quits, it is because of the parents. Not the job itself or the kids. The parents. 9 times out of 10.

[Anonymous]

You can love your job (the work you do) and the people you work with (clients and co-workers) but not like the people who you work for (your boss/supervisor).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:*PP Above*:

A fellow nanny also received a Groupon type voucher in her Christmas card.

A $44 promotional voucher for an Asian massage which her bosses got for $23 online.

Tacky or a great gift idea?

MB here. It's tacky but better than nothing.

[Anonymous]

Why do you all care how was spent on the groupon? I buy all of my gifts on sale. What would be a bigger issue to me is whether or not the gift had anything to do with what they know about me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you all care how was spent on the groupon? I buy all of my gifts on sale. What would be a bigger issue to me is whether or not the gift had anything to do with what they know about me.

It's not so much the amount as the fact it is a Groupon offer, which lists the discount as well as an expiration. Tacky!

[Anonymous]

Location- Texas

Length of employment- five months

Weekly salary- 50 hours at $14 an hour

Bonus- $300

Gifts- Nice pull-over and a gift certificate to a local pottery class

Comments- Thrilled! Both gifts were picked out for me with great thought. They remembered comments I made months ago. Easily the best employers I've ever had, absolutely love them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Location - Los Angeles, CA

Length of employment - 10 months

Weekly Salary - $1200

Bonus - $1800

Gifts - laptop, newest version of keurig k500 plus $500 worth of coffee and teas, candles, coffee mugs, massage gift certificate and card

Holy crap, you must work for a 1 percenter

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Location - Los Angeles, CA

Length of employment - 10 months

Weekly Salary - $1200

Bonus - $1800

Gifts - laptop, newest version of keurig k500 plus $500 worth of coffee and teas, candles, coffee mugs, massage gift certificate and card

Holy crap, you must work for a 1 percenter

+1 Generous 1 percenter!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Location - Los Angeles, CA

Length of employment - 10 months

Weekly Salary - $1200

Bonus - $1800

Gifts - laptop, newest version of keurig k500 plus $500 worth of coffee and teas, candles, coffee mugs, massage gift certificate and card

Holy crap, you must work for a 1 percenter

+1 Generous 1 percenter!

They are very generous with every thing in their lives. They give a lot to charities (animals, earth and children charities mainly). If someone needs something they are there.

I feel blessed to work for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you all care how was spent on the groupon? I buy all of my gifts on sale. What would be a bigger issue to me is whether or not the gift had anything to do with what they know about me.

It's quite tacky to gift someone a Groupon as a "gift" because it states on the paper the price the person paid for it, plus all Groupons have expiration dates as restrictions so they are not true "gifts" such as gift certificates or gift cards.

Remember how people complained about expiration dates on gift cards thus gift cards now do not have them? Because when giving someone a true "gift," imposing a restriction takes the fun out of the "gift" part. In other words, the dynamic changes. It no longer feels like a gift any longer.

It is tough to explain.

Plus, a Groupon isn't meant to give as a gift, I would think it is meant to use by the person who uses it.

I wouldn't give someone a gift for a complimentary coffee that expired on a certain date that I received as a promotion in the mail. Sure, it would be a nice gesture that I thought of someone in particular, but to give it and categorize it as a gift is just wrong wrong wrong.

[Anonymous]

Plus I think the purpose of Groupons is not to give as gifts, their main purpose is to draw in new customers and they use incentives such as discounts to do so.