Should I Be Paid More.....Or Just Let This Issue Go?

[Anonymous]

If you want to raise it, I would tell MB that “you might not be aware since you leave at 6:30 but DB doesn’t wake up to care for older son unto 7:45 sometimes.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a Nanny to a 14-month old girl.

She has a just-turned three year old brother whom I watch on very rare occasions.
He is in preschool full-time.

Well I come in at 6:30AM.
Mom leaves the house for work & I care for both children alone until Dad comes to dress the older child for preschool, then leaves.
This can be anywhere from 7:00 to 7:45AM.

I don’t get paid for two kids -
I only get paid for the girl.

This happens 5x/wk and it’s starting to bother me.
Part of me feels taken advantage of while the other part thinks since I absolutely adore the little boy that I should just let it go.

Question: What SHOULD I do?
I am already working below rate for them if this even factors in.

Why are they paying you below rate?

[Anonymous]

This is job creep, OP and you nip it in the bud!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would let it go.

I would let it go. Or nicely ask if things could be rounded up for helping out 30-45 minutes a day for the boy.
what happens when the boy has No Preschool? If you are watching him then, and you want to, tell them No Problem, will watch both kids but for $20/hour. BTW, in the AM too he has me helping him, breakfast, playing, could I have an extra $15 cash per week for that please? Or how would you like to handle that?

No way you will get a 2 kid rate for doing 30-45 minutes with two kids playing (sounds like father does the upstairs stuff + his breakfast?) and one kid 9-10 hours a day.

[Anonymous]

Career nanny here. The difference in your pay would be $5-10 per week, less taxes. I would let it go, but bring it up at your annual review, that you go above your expected duties and are hoping to be compensated fairly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do you do for the 3 year old?

Probably whatever he needs. What's your point?

Asking OP, not you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is job creep, OP and you nip it in the bud!

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you want to raise it, I would tell MB that “you might not be aware since you leave at 6:30 but DB doesn’t wake up to care for older son unto 7:45 sometimes.”

I think it’s the principle of it and it is job creep. I think mom doesn’t know that her husband sleeps in. The husband probably thinks (and knows) that the nanny will take care of the older child. I happen to think that five or $10 a week is not a big deal to me but might be a big deal to others and as I said, it’s the principle of it. Because as you can see here she is not being acknowledged for her work, she’s being taken advantage of and it’s leaving to resentment. Resentment on a job is never a good thing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to raise it, I would tell MB that “you might not be aware since you leave at 6:30 but DB doesn’t wake up to care for older son unto 7:45 sometimes.”

I think it’s the principle of it and it is job creep. I think mom doesn’t know that her husband sleeps in. The husband probably thinks (and knows) that the nanny will take care of the older child. I happen to think that five or $10 a week is not a big deal to me but might be a big deal to others and as I said, it’s the principle of it. Because as you can see here she is not being acknowledged for her work, she’s being taken advantage of and it’s leaving to resentment. Resentment on a job is never a good thing

Well said. Employers should reflect on this.