How accurate is care.com with area rates?

[Anonymous]

I'm curious if the suggested rates provided by the care.com calculator are usually accurate as to what a nanny would expect?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious if the suggested rates provided by the care.com calculator are usually accurate as to what a nanny would expect?

No. They are considerably lower. Care.com offers low-ball rate estimates so parents feel as though they can affor more than they really can.
They want parents to buy a membership. If they suggested actual rates, people would shy away from their service.

[Anonymous]

not at all! i get so frustrated with care.com

[Anonymous]

Care.com calculates LOW. You'll never get a good nanny for the rates they suggest.

[Anonymous]

Very low, at least $2-3 hr low.

[Anonymous]

Care.com tells their customer (parents) what they want to hear, and their estimates skew very low. For example, when I enter information for a nanny such as myself (8 years of experience, 2 kids, 45 hours, NW DC), it suggests a pay rate of $15.54. It makes no consideration of the fact that I am legal to work, drive my own car, am bilingual, and have a related degree.

The weekly rate that it calculates also doesn't include overtime which is so incredibly misleading to parents. It sets them up with high expectations, only to be disappointed when they can't find what they're looking for. Anything to get them to sign up. Every time I see the commercials with that care.com founder pretending to give a crap, I just want to smack her across her smug face.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every time I see the commercials with that care.com founder pretending to give a crap, I just want to smack her across her smug face.

Agree with all PP's and especially this.

[Anonymous]

So what would be the typical rate for a nanny just starting out in DC? Say a 20 yo, with a little bit of experience working at a YMCA childcare center, a few years as a babysitter here and there, and only a couple of months as an actual nanny?

[Anonymous]

PP I started my first nanny job right out of college with general childcare experience and got a nanny share for 2 3-month old girls at $18/hr...I've gotten a 3% raise each year and have been there for 4 years

[Anonymous]

care.com is a scam

[Anonymous]

I agree.

That Care.com commercial is such a scam.

That warm and loving tone of voice is just as artificial as her "business." Her business of ripping people off.

Because that is what she does.

Her website is a scam.

[Anonymous]

In my area care.com suggests the same rate for a nanny with 0- 1 year experience, watching 1 child 40 hrs a week, that a local daycare pays a teacher who watches 8 two years olds at the same time for the same hours.
Do inexperienced nannies in other areas typically make more than a daycare teacher? I was thinking that I would much prefer the nanny job and so it was a pretty good deal, but that is the rate that care.com is providing

[Anonymous]

I used a friends account for care.com and found a great sitter we use on a regular basis. Having said that, the sitters advertised rate said $5-10 per hour and she request $13. No biggie as she was caring for two kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used a friends account for care.com and found a great sitter we use on a regular basis. Having said that, the sitters advertised rate said $5-10 per hour and she request $13. No biggie as she was caring for two kids.

Ok???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used a friends account for care.com and found a great sitter we use on a regular basis. Having said that, the sitters advertised rate said $5-10 per hour and she request $13. No biggie as she was caring for two kids.

Cool story. ?