Raise for new baby if older child is starting preschool 4 hours per day

[Anonymous]

Thoughts on this? Nanny would really mostly be responsible for the baby...older child starting 1/2 day preschool.

[Anonymous]

Key word - "mostly" - not completely. How many hours a day will she have both children in her care? Will she still be responsible for the preschooler's laundry, cleaning his room, making his lunches and snacks?

[Anonymous]

If you're too cheap to pay for a proper raise, will you be hiring someone else to help the nanny during the summer and in sick days? Out sourcing the extra laundry and cleaning? Employers like you really suck.

[Anonymous]

these are two separate considerations. Figure out her base pay from the number of hours she works with one and with two. So, for example $15/hr for 4 hours with infant + $17 per hour for 4 hours with both = daily rate. Then give her the standard raise you would normally give or as is in the contract. This way you are clear what you pay her vs what annual raises she should expect going forward.

[Anonymous]

I can't imagine a $15/hr nanny being qualified to be responsible for a newborn. Please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine a $15/hr nanny being qualified to be responsible for a newborn. Please.

Well can you read? "For example" means not literraly.

[Anonymous]

Op here. I actually currently pay 20, which is on the high end for one kid.

[Anonymous]

I do $25 for one child.

[Anonymous]

Don't shortchange her because the older child will be in school 4 hours a day. That's not her decision and believe me, she will need that time to do laundry, prepare food, clean up, etc while ALSO caring for a newborn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Key word - "mostly" - not completely. How many hours a day will she have both children in her care? Will she still be responsible for the preschooler's laundry, cleaning his room, making his lunches and snacks?

These two questions need to be answered before anyone can really advise you.

[Anonymous]

No to lunches and snacks, yes to laundry

[Anonymous]

I also keep the room clean

[Anonymous]

Are you going back to work out of the house, OP? Will nanny have to shuttle the baby back and forth to preschool? How many hours will your nanny have a newborn and a preschooler at home with her?

[Anonymous]

If you get super technical you will wrangle over minor details that may not be very important to either one of you . If you think about averages like on average how many times a week she will dol laundry, then you risk taking advantage of her. It's up to you to think about which is the more likely hazard and proceed from there. I can say nannies get very technical and sensitive when people start talking in generalities.

[Anonymous]

We were in the same situation with one starting nursery school and a new baby. I work full time so even though DS was in school for four hours in the afternoons, the nanny still had him and the baby every time there was a school holiday or he was sick (which is ALL THE TIME when they start school). We were at 18 an hour at the time and raised her to 21 an hour - that was nearly three years ago. We have given her yearly raises ever since.