Nanny pay hasn't gone up enough

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most nannies with significant experience are earning more like $35-45hr. Then you factor in that most nannies work OT and they're making 1.5x their rate there. It's common for nannies to be making $90k+ per year which is fair imo

The average faculty salary at a liberal arts college is substantially less than this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most nannies with significant experience are earning more like $35-45hr. Then you factor in that most nannies work OT and they're making 1.5x their rate there. It's common for nannies to be making $90k+ per year which is fair imo

This is a blatant lie that just keeps resurfacing on DCUM. We pay our nanny, in a share, $32 an hour, and that's on the higher end for my neighborhood. $28-$32 is the range for a share, $25-$30 for a single family. And that's in downtown DC (ie - a very high cost of living) and on the books.

A nanny making over $40 an hour is incredibly, incredibly rare, as is a nanny taking home $90k a year. I don't know if this is wishful thinking, or someone who only knows millionaires, or nannies trying to drive up the market, or daycares trying to make the nanny market seem impossible, but it's just straight up not true.

Respectfully, I facilitate over 250 nanny placements per year and basically eat, sleep, and breathe the market for the last decade. Here is some data from 3 years ago. https://gtm.com/household/ina-salary-and-benefits-survey/

Even in your own example paying $32hr. An average nanny works 45 hours per week. $32 x 40 = $1280 plus $48 x 5 equals $1520 per week x 52 is $80k per year. Add in some combo of additional hours as-needed, holiday bonus, monthly health insurance stipend, mileage reimbursement, etc and $90k isn't a stretch.

What are the parents’ occupations and how much do they make per year?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most nannies with significant experience are earning more like $35-45hr. Then you factor in that most nannies work OT and they're making 1.5x their rate there. It's common for nannies to be making $90k+ per year which is fair imo

The average faculty salary at a liberal arts college is substantially less than this.

Trash collectors make more than teachers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most nannies with significant experience are earning more like $35-45hr. Then you factor in that most nannies work OT and they're making 1.5x their rate there. It's common for nannies to be making $90k+ per year which is fair imo

This is a blatant lie that just keeps resurfacing on DCUM. We pay our nanny, in a share, $32 an hour, and that's on the higher end for my neighborhood. $28-$32 is the range for a share, $25-$30 for a single family. And that's in downtown DC (ie - a very high cost of living) and on the books.

A nanny making over $40 an hour is incredibly, incredibly rare, as is a nanny taking home $90k a year. I don't know if this is wishful thinking, or someone who only knows millionaires, or nannies trying to drive up the market, or daycares trying to make the nanny market seem impossible, but it's just straight up not true.

+1. We do a comprehensive survey every year in our DC neighborhood of childcare costs and the above is in line with the most recent survey (2024-2025) on nanny pay— and prior years. $25-$30/hour for a family and $30-34/hour for a share is absolutely the median. This is a DC neighborhood that is high cost and where there are lots of wonderful nannies.

I’m sorry to be a downer but I also want people to have reasonable expectations around pay. I also wish the typical salary in my job were 30% higher but it’s not. I can’t speak to very high cost neighborhoods (like Kalorama) but also that’s not a typical situation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most nannies with significant experience are earning more like $35-45hr. Then you factor in that most nannies work OT and they're making 1.5x their rate there. It's common for nannies to be making $90k+ per year which is fair imo

This is a blatant lie that just keeps resurfacing on DCUM. We pay our nanny, in a share, $32 an hour, and that's on the higher end for my neighborhood. $28-$32 is the range for a share, $25-$30 for a single family. And that's in downtown DC (ie - a very high cost of living) and on the books.

A nanny making over $40 an hour is incredibly, incredibly rare, as is a nanny taking home $90k a year. I don't know if this is wishful thinking, or someone who only knows millionaires, or nannies trying to drive up the market, or daycares trying to make the nanny market seem impossible, but it's just straight up not true.

Respectfully, I facilitate over 250 nanny placements per year and basically eat, sleep, and breathe the market for the last decade. Here is some data from 3 years ago. https://gtm.com/household/ina-salary-and-benefits-survey/

Even in your own example paying $32hr. An average nanny works 45 hours per week. $32 x 40 = $1280 plus $48 x 5 equals $1520 per week x 52 is $80k per year. Add in some combo of additional hours as-needed, holiday bonus, monthly health insurance stipend, mileage reimbursement, etc and $90k isn't a stretch.

What are the parents’ occupations and how much do they make per year?

It doesn't matter what the parents make. You are not entitled ot a %. Don't like the pay find another job.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most nannies with significant experience are earning more like $35-45hr. Then you factor in that most nannies work OT and they're making 1.5x their rate there. It's common for nannies to be making $90k+ per year which is fair imo

This is a blatant lie that just keeps resurfacing on DCUM. We pay our nanny, in a share, $32 an hour, and that's on the higher end for my neighborhood. $28-$32 is the range for a share, $25-$30 for a single family. And that's in downtown DC (ie - a very high cost of living) and on the books.

A nanny making over $40 an hour is incredibly, incredibly rare, as is a nanny taking home $90k a year. I don't know if this is wishful thinking, or someone who only knows millionaires, or nannies trying to drive up the market, or daycares trying to make the nanny market seem impossible, but it's just straight up not true.

Respectfully, I facilitate over 250 nanny placements per year and basically eat, sleep, and breathe the market for the last decade. Here is some data from 3 years ago. https://gtm.com/household/ina-salary-and-benefits-survey/

Even in your own example paying $32hr. An average nanny works 45 hours per week. $32 x 40 = $1280 plus $48 x 5 equals $1520 per week x 52 is $80k per year. Add in some combo of additional hours as-needed, holiday bonus, monthly health insurance stipend, mileage reimbursement, etc and $90k isn't a stretch.

What are the parents’ occupations and how much do they make per year?

It doesn't matter what the parents make. You are not entitled ot a %. Don't like the pay find another job.

Sorry I think you misunderstood my intention. I’m not suggesting nannies should be paid a percentage of their employers’ salaries.

I’m simply asking pp - as someone who placed 250 nannies last year - what occupations she’s seeing. Surgeons? Tech entrepreneurs? I’m a lawyer and even a big law associate cannot swing $90k annual to a nanny. So I was just curious. Shouldn’t be hard for pp to answer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Most nannies with significant experience are earning more like $35-45hr. Then you factor in that most nannies work OT and they're making 1.5x their rate there. It's common for nannies to be making $90k+ per year which is fair imo

This is a blatant lie that just keeps resurfacing on DCUM. We pay our nanny, in a share, $32 an hour, and that's on the higher end for my neighborhood. $28-$32 is the range for a share, $25-$30 for a single family. And that's in downtown DC (ie - a very high cost of living) and on the books.

A nanny making over $40 an hour is incredibly, incredibly rare, as is a nanny taking home $90k a year. I don't know if this is wishful thinking, or someone who only knows millionaires, or nannies trying to drive up the market, or daycares trying to make the nanny market seem impossible, but it's just straight up not true.

Respectfully, I facilitate over 250 nanny placements per year and basically eat, sleep, and breathe the market for the last decade. Here is some data from 3 years ago. https://gtm.com/household/ina-salary-and-benefits-survey/

Even in your own example paying $32hr. An average nanny works 45 hours per week. $32 x 40 = $1280 plus $48 x 5 equals $1520 per week x 52 is $80k per year. Add in some combo of additional hours as-needed, holiday bonus, monthly health insurance stipend, mileage reimbursement, etc and $90k isn't a stretch.

Nannies that are placed from agencies aren't representative of typical nanny pay. At least around here in the DC area, the vast majority of people interview and hire their own nannies. In fact, I've never met someone who used an agency for a regular, full time nanny. Lots of people use White House Nannies or similar for occasional/temporary nannies, or for night nannies. But for their regular, full time, permanent nanny? They find people of list servs or care.com or through word of mouth or similar. I just checked White House nannies and they charge TWENTY PERCENT of the nanny's annual salary for placement. Anyone who is shelling out five figures to a company just to find them a nanny is FAR from your median family who hires a nanny. I'm not surprised that they're paying above-market level wages.

And returning to the above example - what you're saying is that even in the more expensive arrangement (a share), and at the top of the pay scale, and with five hours of overtime a week, you're still at $80k a year. NOT $90k.

I stand my by initial statement: $40 an hour or $90k a year is VERY rare for a nanny.

[Anonymous]

For the people quoting $25-$30 for a single family or $28-$32 for a share, is that assuming on the books or cash (with benefits)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the people quoting $25-$30 for a single family or $28-$32 for a share, is that assuming on the books or cash (with benefits)?

On the books.

[Anonymous]

You are low balling your nannies, especially in a share situation if you are paying $32 per hr. No nanny, unless a complete fool or illiterate person, will add an extra baby for $4-5 extra per hr. Why would she charge $32 for 2 if she is already making 27-30 with one child? Two babies is insane amount of work, plus dealing with 2 sets of parents. Handling 2 nap times and 2 meals, often with different diets/allergies. It is at least 1,5 of her 1 baby rate. Better, 1,75. Signed: a 42 bucks an hour shared nanny, in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Most nannies with significant experience are earning more like $35-45hr. Then you factor in that most nannies work OT and they're making 1.5x their rate there. It's common for nannies to be making $90k+ per year which is fair imo

This is a blatant lie that just keeps resurfacing on DCUM. We pay our nanny, in a share, $32 an hour, and that's on the higher end for my neighborhood. $28-$32 is the range for a share, $25-$30 for a single family. And that's in downtown DC (ie - a very high cost of living) and on the books.

A nanny making over $40 an hour is incredibly, incredibly rare, as is a nanny taking home $90k a year. I don't know if this is wishful thinking, or someone who only knows millionaires, or nannies trying to drive up the market, or daycares trying to make the nanny market seem impossible, but it's just straight up not true.

[Anonymous]

Your neighborhood isn’t the entire DC market. Just because you aren’t paying those rates doesn’t make everyone else a liar. Plenty of families in NW, certain MD suburbs, and high-demand infant positions are paying $38–45/hr, especially for experienced nannies or complex shares. The market varies wildly by location, experience, and duties.
Calling real numbers ‘blatant lies’ just because they don’t match your personal experience isn’t a strong argument—it’s just narrow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For the people quoting $25-$30 for a single family or $28-$32 for a share, is that assuming on the books or cash (with benefits)?

Yes, on the book, with benefits. (So paid time off, a health stipend, etc.)

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Anonymous wrote:Most nannies with significant experience are earning more like $35-45hr. Then you factor in that most nannies work OT and they're making 1.5x their rate there. It's common for nannies to be making $90k+ per year which is fair imo

This is a blatant lie that just keeps resurfacing on DCUM. We pay our nanny, in a share, $32 an hour, and that's on the higher end for my neighborhood. $28-$32 is the range for a share, $25-$30 for a single family. And that's in downtown DC (ie - a very high cost of living) and on the books.

A nanny making over $40 an hour is incredibly, incredibly rare, as is a nanny taking home $90k a year. I don't know if this is wishful thinking, or someone who only knows millionaires, or nannies trying to drive up the market, or daycares trying to make the nanny market seem impossible, but it's just straight up not true.

Respectfully, I facilitate over 250 nanny placements per year and basically eat, sleep, and breathe the market for the last decade. Here is some data from 3 years ago. https://gtm.com/household/ina-salary-and-benefits-survey/

Even in your own example paying $32hr. An average nanny works 45 hours per week. $32 x 40 = $1280 plus $48 x 5 equals $1520 per week x 52 is $80k per year. Add in some combo of additional hours as-needed, holiday bonus, monthly health insurance stipend, mileage reimbursement, etc and $90k isn't a stretch.

Nannies that are placed from agencies aren't representative of typical nanny pay. At least around here in the DC area, the vast majority of people interview and hire their own nannies. In fact, I've never met someone who used an agency for a regular, full time nanny. Lots of people use White House Nannies or similar for occasional/temporary nannies, or for night nannies. But for their regular, full time, permanent nanny? They find people of list servs or care.com or through word of mouth or similar. I just checked White House nannies and they charge TWENTY PERCENT of the nanny's annual salary for placement. Anyone who is shelling out five figures to a company just to find them a nanny is FAR from your median family who hires a nanny. I'm not surprised that they're paying above-market level wages.

And returning to the above example - what you're saying is that even in the more expensive arrangement (a share), and at the top of the pay scale, and with five hours of overtime a week, you're still at $80k a year. NOT $90k.

I stand my by initial statement: $40 an hour or $90k a year is VERY rare for a nanny.

Agree with all of this- I don't know anyone who used a nanny service; everyone finds wonderful nannies on neighborhood listservs. I live in DC where nannies and nanny shares seem to be more typical than using daycare, at least until about age 2 or 3. Families talk and nannies talk and the going range for one kid was about $25 as of last year, with shares around $30/hour. I'm sure there are outlier situations where someone is making $40/hour but that is very rare.

Frankly, I see a lot of high salaries quoted on this board, and I do not think it is helpful. If I were applying for a job, I'd want to know the median range-- not what the top 1% of people are making.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:$25 is a fair pay for college kids/mother’s helper/babysitters in the city when parents go out for dinner(kids in bed)Professional Nannies w/degrees are paid $35 plus w/all the benefits. Dare to believe, check what agencies are offering in today’s time. It’s indeed a luxury to have a professional nanny working in your home.

No, and you don’t need a degree.

I’m a city nanny and former educator and i get $38/40hrs weekly guaranteed. It’s def a luxury service not too many can afford BUT i wont work from anything less. When i lived in NYC i was getting paid $45 hourly. I was making $25 right out of college so in today’s time I find it hard to believe that someone would work for $25 but to each its own. I’d certainly won’t apply to jobs that pay that little, tho.