Newborn Baby rates are $20-30/hr + PLUS your older children if you have some.

[Anonymous]

These figures are well-confirmed by moms and the caregivers on the parents' forum. Do a search if you feel like it.

NO one in their right mind takes on an infant for a silly dollar an hour.

Your "dollar an hour market rate" is nothing but sheer fabricated myth.

Even high-turnover daycares charge more than that.

"Look Honey, who needs daycare when our (not-so-bright) nanny
will do our newborn care for just an extra dollar an hour!"

Best deal in town, huh?

In your dreams.

[Anonymous]

Fine. You keep asking for $20-30 per hour. It'll make me sound even more sane when I ask for a realistic rate.

[Anonymous]

I'll bite: link to ONE example in the parents forum where a "MB" is claiming that's acceptable pay.

[Anonymous]

OP-who are you aiming your posts at? Your language always attempts to sound professional yet just ends up coming across as unnecessarily condescending and bitter all at the same time. Nannies don't need your help, and MB's aren't going to listen to you. Unless you can start to back up your numerous posts with any factual information, please just stop. As a nanny- you are just annoying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll bite: link to ONE example in the parents forum where a "MB" is claiming that's acceptable pay.

You searched already and found nothing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll bite: link to ONE example in the parents forum where a "MB" is claiming that's acceptable pay.

You searched already and found nothing?

You don't understand how this works. You make a claim, you back it up. You can't just run around saying whatever you feel like and its fact until someone proves you wrong. That's not how the world works. Another hint; nannies don't make $30/hour (unless they work very few hours, like 1 or 2). If you make that much, you're probably doing much more than nannying.

[Anonymous]

Does OP even have a job? Or is she the bitter nanny troll that's been lurking on this board for awhile now and Jeff calls her out on it every now and then.

You do realize how small the demand for a nanny would be if all nannies charged 30 plus an hour right? People would turn to daycare or choose to have a parent stay home.

You also realize that not every single person is entitled to make over 20 an hour right? My friend is a CNA and makes 11 an hour. Go find out what some assistants and secretaries make. My brother works for State Street in Boston as a fund accountant and makes 38K a year. My friend with two masters (one from an Ivy) works with students at a charter school in the Bronx and makes 36k a year.

If you want a high paying job, you need the qualifications. This means education, experience, and bringing something else to the table that other nannies don't (and I don't mean house cleaning). This pretty much applies to any career.

While I agree nannies should be paid a fair wage and should be treated fairly, some of your posts are ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll bite: link to ONE example in the parents forum where a "MB" is claiming that's acceptable pay.

You searched already and found nothing?

There will ALWAYS be bosses who try to screw their employees. This is true in any field. But its pretty stupid to let 1 or 2 bad bosses (and who knows they might have been trolls) make you think all MBs are like this. The good MBs probably arent posting. Just like the people with good marriages probably arent posting in the relationship forum.

[Anonymous]

Even if a nanny worked only 40 hours a week, $30/hour is $62,400 a year even not including taxes. There are so so few people who could afford that, the number of nanny positions would be tiny. And then because there were so many people looking for a nanny job, someone would do it for $25 a week, and then someone would do it for $20, and the market would level out to somewhere around what families can afford and how many people want the job. The ceiling for nanny jobs is very real because in order for a parent to keep working, they generally want to be making more than they'd have to pay for child care and enough to make it worth it for them to stay employed themselves.

[Anonymous]

A baby nurse (night nanny) makes $20 hour for the 4 or so weeks they're with the family. A daytime nanny who's looking after the newborn + older siblings will make closer to $15/hr.

If you want to believe you can get a FT position for $30/hr you will be job searching for a very long time.

[Anonymous]

OP, are you talking about Newborn Care Specialist/Baby Nurses? If so, then yes they typically make $20-30 plus an hour depending upon experience and number of babies. The difference is that they work for a short amount of time. Now regular nanny salaries are a lot different, there are a lot more people making $15-20/hr.

I am a nanny making $30/hr but I am caring for infant triplets in the San Francisco Bay area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll bite: link to ONE example in the parents forum where a "MB" is claiming that's acceptable pay.

You searched already and found nothing?

You don't understand how this works. You make a claim, you back it up. You can't just run around saying whatever you feel like and its fact until someone proves you wrong. That's not how the world works. Another hint; nannies don't make $30/hour (unless they work very few hours, like 1 or 2). If you make that much, you're probably doing much more than nannying.

Which thread was it that had the FT nanny earning $52/hr? No one said, repeat: no one said that every nanny qualifies to be "high-earning". You have your average, you have your low-earning newbie nannies (or the warm-body type), and you have the relatively few (rightfully so) high-earning nannies. After all, if they "all" earned 25-30, they wouldn't be "high-earning", would now?

Some nannies DO earn 25-30/hr. Remember, at least one nanny earns $52/hr.? So please stop with your asinine stupidity that "nannies don't make 30/hr., unless they work 1 or 2 hours". The ONLY thing you DO know is what YOU may pay a nanny. And that may be HALF as much (or less) as what SOME other nannies are earning.

And yes, high-income earning nannies indeed do much more than what most of you commonly envision for a "nanny". It may even be that they don't actually "do" more, depending on your understanding "doing". For instance, the best nannies do NOT engage in "multitasking". Because these nannies are not expected to "keep busy", as you call it, they are well-informed AND understand the overwhelming research, that multitasking is definately not something to aspire to. (You may google the word.) So, in just that one example, the professional nanny may be "doing" less, in your eyes. However, if our most acclaimed researchers in this field, come to observe such a nanny, they would most certainly recognize her uncommon ability to teach her charges in a developmentally appropriate fashion. And no, she's not going to try to make a bright 2 or 3 year old child, read. She knows better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll bite: link to ONE example in the parents forum where a "MB" is claiming that's acceptable pay.

You searched already and found nothing?

You don't understand how this works. You make a claim, you back it up. You can't just run around saying whatever you feel like and its fact until someone proves you wrong. That's not how the world works. Another hint; nannies don't make $30/hour (unless they work very few hours, like 1 or 2). If you make that much, you're probably doing much more than nannying.

Which thread was it that had the FT nanny earning $52/hr? No one said, repeat: no one said that every nanny qualifies to be "high-earning". You have your average, you have your low-earning newbie nannies (or the warm-body type), and you have the relatively few (rightfully so) high-earning nannies. After all, if they "all" earned 25-30, they wouldn't be "high-earning", would now?

Some nannies DO earn 25-30/hr. Remember, at least one nanny earns $52/hr.? So please stop with your asinine stupidity that "nannies don't make 30/hr., unless they work 1 or 2 hours". The ONLY thing you DO know is what YOU may pay a nanny. And that may be HALF as much (or less) as what SOME other nannies are earning.

And yes, high-income earning nannies indeed do much more than what most of you commonly envision for a "nanny". It may even be that they don't actually "do" more, depending on your understanding "doing". For instance, the best nannies do NOT engage in "multitasking". Because these nannies are not expected to "keep busy", as you call it, they are well-informed AND understand the overwhelming research, that multitasking is definately not something to aspire to. (You may google the word.) So, in just that one example, the professional nanny may be "doing" less, in your eyes. However, if our most acclaimed researchers in this field, come to observe such a nanny, they would most certainly recognize her uncommon ability to teach her charges in a developmentally appropriate fashion. And no, she's not going to try to make a bright 2 or 3 year old child, read. She knows better.

*would they now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll bite: link to ONE example in the parents forum where a "MB" is claiming that's acceptable pay.

You searched already and found nothing?

There will ALWAYS be bosses who try to screw their employees. This is true in any field. But its pretty stupid to let 1 or 2 bad bosses (and who knows they might have been trolls) make you think all MBs are like this. The good MBs probably arent posting. Just like the people with good marriages probably arent posting in the relationship forum.

You cannot infer from absence of posts from $30/hr-paying MBs that they exist but are too busy to post. Actually, you can't infer anything from the absence of evidence other than the evidence is absent.

[Anonymous]

Example:

Started working for family with their toddler for $13/hr
they had a new baby a yr later and my pay increased 10 $17.50/hr.
Then new year, new baby, pay increased to 20.50.
With each subsequent child they are now adding $2 per