White House Nannies vs Care

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was shocked at the low pay offered by WHN. Their contract rates are a third less than what I make now.

+100 - Their nannies can't be any good working for such low rates. No competent nanny would accept their low rates.

And btw, I always thought nanny agencies weren't allowed to dictate your pay. Is WHN functioning as the employer?

[Anonymous]

When I talked to whn, they said that could demand whatever I wanted, but they wouldn’t send my profile. I asked if they would send my profile to specific families after I read the bio, and they said no. So, not with them!

[Anonymous]

They are a complete scam agency, but well connected.

[Anonymous]

The problem with WHN is that families pay a lot, WHN takes a huge cut, and then nannies are paid a much lower wage than if they independently found their own gig. So they are paying a lot for WHN services.

[Anonymous]

Why would a good nanny go to WH for dirt wages?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would a good nanny go to WH for dirt wages?

They wouldn't. They would find families on their own, for higher pay, cutting out the WHN middle man.

[Anonymous]

Barbara Kline, the owner of White House Nannies is awful. They don't really care about clients' budgets or needs. The bottom line for her and her business is their placement fee, which for a full-time nanny is around $10,000.
WHN essentially does the same thing as Care.com, but for $10,000.00 more. So, you have to figure out if having WHN vetting a few nannies on your behalf, is really worth that.

[Anonymous]

I didn’t meet the type of nanny we wanted from White House Nannies so I went to care.com and searched the profiles and wrote a carefully written job description (college graduate, teaching experience) and still got hundreds of applicants without. We found our wonderful nanny by searching profiles.

[Anonymous]

Whatch out and step away from Care.com. Nanny here. I was the most horrorible experience there. Lot lot lot of spams. And at the end I ending up getting an Amazing Job out of this site.

[Anonymous]

I go through NannyPoppinz. They verify that the nanny fits the family’s criteria before scheduling an interview, only sending profiles to the family after a nanny has indicated interest. I don’t have to worry about whether the family and I mismatch on the basics (unless they didn’t provide ANY information for their profile), so the interview is about specifics like discipline, parenting/caregiving style, outings, etc.

[Anonymous]

Some families want good nannies but don't want to pay a fare salary.
Other want the whole package, cleaning, driving and cooking but paying the same salary.
Some parents want to much for so little.
Parents that pay a fare salary deserve a good nanny
Parents that want to take advantage of nannies don't complain about the services you get because you get want you pay.
And there all ways some nannies that are going to do some extra things for the same salary and other just going to do want a nanny position mean take care of your kids and that it.

[Anonymous]

I don’t get why you all say WHN wages are so low. I work for them with temporary division and I am the one who negotiates rate with client. WHN has nothing to do how much I charge. Never had a problem with $30-35/h

[Anonymous]

WHN sucks, the rule out good nannies with so much experience and go with nannies with less experience and lower pay scale.
If a family is paying you to find them someone then qualtiy is what they need, And if they have to post on care to find someone anyways, the same can be done by the families directly, why pay an agency to do so>??
WHN is just hoity toity and racist.