Affording Overtime

[Anonymous]

People, the OT rate would be $30/hour. That is not her nanny's current rate. Also, to those telling PP to calm down, yes OP is trying to figure out how to afford the overtime, but her words were "is there any way to legally get around OT?" As a nanny, I find that offensive as well. OP wanted to know of there was a way to get out of this legal requirement for paying her nanny. Suddebly because OP needs more hours, OPs nanny should work for less? Gross. We should just readjust everyone's rates as their hours and work increase so that it doesn't cost employers more. Oh yeah...that's not actually how this works...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have just accepted a new job that will move our nanny from 36 hours a week to 50 hours a week. I am very worried about being able to afford ten hours of overtime at $30 an hour. Our nanny is paid legally with a payroll service.

Is there anyway to legally get around overtime?

Everyone I know in NYC does this. Nannies are expect it too. 45-55 hour a week jobs are typical here.

50 hours, X*40 hours + 1.5X*10 hours = 50 hour salary you are targeting/budgeting.

So $800 = 40X +15X

X = $14.50/hour
OT is $21.75/hour

Pay weekly amount or just do salary (also very typical and easy for W-2s).

[Anonymous]

you pay $800 per week and I need a job for $800 per week.

i can try my best to cobble short hour jobs together for $800 a week or I can take your job.

in OP's case she is paying SF or NYC rates for a part-time nanny so will likely have to find another nanny. but worth putting the new job spec past her first.

[Anonymous]

Pay her salary and don't pay overtime. It's not a legal requirement. Look at any other professional job, 50-80 hour work weeks for a flat rate. That is the professional world that nannies so desperately want to be a part of.

[Anonymous]

How many of you would accept a salary decrease? Not a damn one of you. Hypocrites!

You cannot afford a nanny, OP. Nor, could you have an AP, as an AP is allowed to work only 45 hrs. per week. Your will have to go for day care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pay her salary and don't pay overtime. It's not a legal requirement. Look at any other professional job, 50-80 hour work weeks for a flat rate. That is the professional world that nannies so desperately want to be a part of.

OT is a Federal requirement and you are an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Many nannies in my bethesda neighborhood are on a fixed weekly salary. As is ours for 6 years now.

It's not illegal at all. And if you said that to a potential employer you'd be exaggerating yourself right out the door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many nannies in my bethesda neighborhood are on a fixed weekly salary. As is ours for 6 years now.

It's not illegal at all. And if you said that to a potential employer you'd be exaggerating yourself right out the door.

You can call it a salary but dometic employees, included nannies, are hourly employees and must be paid OT after 40 hours. If you aren't doing this, she, or someone else, could report you and you will be in a lot of trouble. This is Federal law.

[Anonymous]

The only way to legally avoid paying overtime is having your nanny work 40 hrs a week and then someone else work the other 10 hours.

[Anonymous]

What a disgusting thread! So this mb took another position and I'm assuming because it has financial benefits opposed to what she was doing before. YET wants to find a way to cheat someone that they expect to work 10 hours of overtime per week? Why? So that you can hold on to your salary increase while she gets nothing? Maybe you shouldn't have a nanny if this is how you are seeing the situation. Unreal


Calm down. She's trying to figure out how she can afford this.

OP - can you afford your current nanny for the 50 hours if you were paying $20/hr for all of those hours? If so, then that is a very sizeable increase in income for her (assuming she is not put off by a more full-time workload of course.) What you would do then is take the $1,000 weekly amount that you can afford, and back that into what that means for a base rate at 40 hours and 10 hours of overtime. $1000/week for 50 hours works out to a base hourly wage of $18.18 and an overtime rate of $27.27

I don't think that's an offensive offer to your existing nanny. It's almost a 10% reduction in hourly rate, but it's almost a 40% increase in income. She might not be interested of course, but I don't think there's any harm in talking with her about it.

If she's not interested then you have lots of room to look for someone new. The dollars you're talking about will give you a great deal of options in applicants.

Very true. It is in the best interest of the nanny and the family to consider the offsets between a small reduction and large income increase.

[Anonymous]

You can pay a salary as long as the OT is factored into it. If $800 a week included OT, you are fine. Also, I admit to the one poster that I, for one, did misread the OP's original post. Re: $30 is the OT! You have to pay it. I stand corrected. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Hire a babysitter for the last ten hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many nannies in my bethesda neighborhood are on a fixed weekly salary. As is ours for 6 years now.

It's not illegal at all. And if you said that to a potential employer you'd be exaggerating yourself right out the door.

Which street? Someone wants to visit you.

[Anonymous]

The street where people know how to do math.

[Anonymous]

You could hire a second nanny for the extra hours either have the new nanny come in at the end time of the current nanny or give the current nanny 4 days vs 5 days. She may not even want to work 50 hours a week.