Nanny rate for 3 kids

[Anonymous]

Extremely low! Send your child to daycare

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here I offered to pay $900 weekly no overtime because I would let her go early because my husband is an educator and I can partially work from home but when I do go in the office I tend to work late as well and so does he so it evens out. Also, we give at least 5 weeks off of paid time off spread out throughout the year. Two weeks during the holidays and over the summer when my husband isn't teaching 2- 3 weeks off. So $900 weekly should be fine. Thoughts?

Letting your nanny out early occasionally doesn’t mean you can discount her salary. Working late one night and then being let out a few hours early five days later isn’t equivalent, especially if it’s based on your needs.

I’m a parent of three in CT (just outside NY) and learned from our first nanny in NY what is acceptable vs not acceptable. What you are describing would not be acceptable. Generally you have a guaranteed number of hours you pay out for and anything over that is OT and paid at time and a half. Anything guaranteed is also paid out regardless of whether you use it. You will also give your nanny federal holidays off as paid holidays or pay overtime (we also do NYE, Xmas eve, day after thanksgiving, day after July 4th in addition to 12 or 13 federal holidays even though those days after are not technically federal holidays). Our nanny gets 12 days of paid vacation of her choosing (taken in two chunks, usually two one week vacations) on top of any personal time she might need to take during the week for one off things as well as eight sick days on top of any doctor or dentist appointments she may need to go to during hours she would generally work. In addition to taking about a week between Xmas and NYE (Dec 24-Jan 1) we generally take a few days off before the President’s Day weekend (so it becomes a five day break as opposed to three days), two weeks in March, and a week in the summer (July or August). We pay our nanny $30/hour for 9 hours/day which is a 45 hour week, but that will go up to $31 in January. We also give our nanny two weeks pay as a bonus at Xmas.

My oldest is in school until 3 pm, my middle child is in school until noon, and my youngest is going to go to to school for a few hours a few days per week starting next September.

If you can’t afford to pay more than $900 then either try to limit the hours so you can pay reasonably well or figure something else out. If you have flexibility in the morning and won’t need childcare for your older kids until 4 pm, maybe have someone watch your younger child 9-4 and then have another person watch all three 4-7. That would be less expensive, but would probably be a hassle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here I offered to pay $900 weekly no overtime because I would let her go early because my husband is an educator and I can partially work from home but when I do go in the office I tend to work late as well and so does he so it evens out. Also, we give at least 5 weeks off of paid time off spread out throughout the year. Two weeks during the holidays and over the summer when my husband isn't teaching 2- 3 weeks off. So $900 weekly should be fine. Thoughts?

Letting your nanny out early occasionally doesn’t mean you can discount her salary. Working late one night and then being let out a few hours early five days later isn’t equivalent, especially if it’s based on your needs.

I’m a parent of three in CT (just outside NY) and learned from our first nanny in NY what is acceptable vs not acceptable. What you are describing would not be acceptable. Generally you have a guaranteed number of hours you pay out for and anything over that is OT and paid at time and a half. Anything guaranteed is also paid out regardless of whether you use it. You will also give your nanny federal holidays off as paid holidays or pay overtime (we also do NYE, Xmas eve, day after thanksgiving, day after July 4th in addition to 12 or 13 federal holidays even though those days after are not technically federal holidays). Our nanny gets 12 days of paid vacation of her choosing (taken in two chunks, usually two one week vacations) on top of any personal time she might need to take during the week for one off things as well as eight sick days on top of any doctor or dentist appointments she may need to go to during hours she would generally work. In addition to taking about a week between Xmas and NYE (Dec 24-Jan 1) we generally take a few days off before the President’s Day weekend (so it becomes a five day break as opposed to three days), two weeks in March, and a week in the summer (July or August). We pay our nanny $30/hour for 9 hours/day which is a 45 hour week, but that will go up to $31 in January. We also give our nanny two weeks pay as a bonus at Xmas.

My oldest is in school until 3 pm, my middle child is in school until noon, and my youngest is going to go to to school for a few hours a few days per week starting next September.

If you can’t afford to pay more than $900 then either try to limit the hours so you can pay reasonably well or figure something else out. If you have flexibility in the morning and won’t need childcare for your older kids until 4 pm, maybe have someone watch your younger child 9-4 and then have another person watch all three 4-7. That would be less expensive, but would probably be a hassle.

Me again, if you offered $30/hour you could hire someone to work 1-6 pm or 12-5 M-F or you could do 10-5:30 M-Th and then you and your husband can try to flex your schedules to cover Friday. If you have flexibility and enough room you could also try to hire an au pair, but that would get you a similar amount of hours to the calculations above since au pairs generally work 25-30 hours a week (I believe). Most universities have pretty good daycare centers, so if your husband is faculty I would inquire to see if that is a possibility for your youngest. If your youngest is in daycare 9-4 then you would only be paying someone for a few hours a night, but you would probably need to pay $35/40 and guarantee the hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$35hr

For three kids! Ridiculous even if two are in school. If they are sick who is expected to take care of them? $50/he minimum.n

[Anonymous]

$30/hr guaranteed.

What the heck does laundry have to do with child-rearing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$35hr

For three kids! Ridiculous even if two are in school. If they are sick who is expected to take care of them? $50/he minimum.n

Smh. Nannies out here trying to push 100k a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$35hr

For three kids! Ridiculous even if two are in school. If they are sick who is expected to take care of them? $50/he minimum.n

Smh. Nannies out here trying to push 100k a year.

Then put your child in daycare if you can'r afford us. You want us to cook, clean, take care of your kids, take the pets out, food shop damn the only thing that's not expected of us is to perform fellatio on your husbands.. We are people too wth!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$35hr

For three kids! Ridiculous even if two are in school. If they are sick who is expected to take care of them? $50/he minimum.n

Smh. Nannies out here trying to push 100k a year.

Then put your child in daycare if you can'r afford us. You want us to cook, clean, take care of your kids, take the pets out, food shop damn the only thing that's not expected of us is to perform fellatio on your husbands.. We are people too wth!

Maybe you’re doing all that. We only ask for childcare.