Serious question, professional nannies

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are there actually, in real life, nannies making $50/hr like in that other thread? Is that possible? What makes them worth that? I've seen threads about getting from $20/hr to $30, but $50 and above is such a huge jump..... I'm confused.

You need to know the rate, number of hours a week, and the time of the hours (night nanny?), to get a better picture. And city, and parents professions, travel, etc.

Since this seems to have stemmed from my post in the other thread, I am the person that posted about making $51.75 an hour this year. I work for a family in DC, both parents work, neither are "famous." Their house is nice but not an enormous mansion. I only worry about the kids and don't to chores. I try to wash dishes (most of them) as the kids are eating but sometimes I don't get to them. Occasionally I will finish them up before I leave after the parents relieve me but many times I will leave dirty dishes in the sink, it's never been an issue. I have only ever wiped down the kitchen counter after cooking and water spots after bath time, that is the extent of any cleaning I have ever done. The family has a cleaner that comes in every Wednesday for half a day to do a deep clean and tidy up. My charges eat solid food so I cook all our meals from scratch with fresh, whole food from the fridge stocked by the parents.

I teach the kids, I have many years of experience educating pre-K children. I engage them, I spark their curiosity. I am teaching them a third language (another European language, they speak English and a second European language). I work 8am to 4:30pm. Parents have never been late unannounced. Occasionally DB has arrived home at the correct time but asked me if I had the time to stay for 15-60 minutes so he can jump on a call, which I have always not had a problem with. There have only been 2 times in the last year they have asked me to babysit, I know they have used another person to babysit on other occasions. If they asked me more often to babysit I would say yes, but they don't. They are very respectful, we have a very friendly relationship. They ask me about my day and I ask about theirs, we exchange brief stories.

Just thought I would throw out some of the details to give one example. Everyone seems to be under the impression if you are making over a certain amount or working for certain types of families that your job suddenly becomes horrible and you are working 24/7.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they are indeed making that kind of dough, they also must be doing all of the deep cleaning, laundry, washing carpets, dry cleaning, detailing five family cars and buying groceries to cook dinner every night.

Complete fantasy by a jealous parent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes there are, but only in the big cities.

Not even. They are LA movie star nannies, wealthy traveling CEO family nannies. They often hire European and British and Tibetan nannies and often have two or three.

Not necessarily. They're just rich, and you aren't.

Are you pretending to know my wealth or my income? I pay my pilot the same as my manny and that is standard rate in my gated community here in OC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes there are, but only in the big cities.

Not even. They are LA movie star nannies, wealthy traveling CEO family nannies. They often hire European and British and Tibetan nannies and often have two or three.

Not necessarily. They're just rich, and you aren't.

Are you pretending to know my wealth or my income? I pay my pilot the same as my manny and that is standard rate in my gated community here in OC.

HAHA I love the full-tilt ridiculousness. =)

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A lot of you would be surprised what celebrities pay. While some of them pay well, I've found that a lot of them are quite cheap and pay nowhere near $40-50/hr.

The families that pay this kind of salary usually are high net worth families. Think the founders of Google or the Russian Billionaire who bought the most expensive house ever sold in the US not the Kardashians.

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Smart, organized housekeepers make the $30-40/hour, not one of the nannies. A real housekeeper can actually save you money if she knows how to run the household and schedule well.

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A smart professional nanny can save you tens of thousands of dollars in therapy costs for your child down the road. Easily.

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A smart professional nanny can save you tens of thousands of dollars in therapy costs for your child down the road. Easily.

HAHA. Here that kids!? Don't hire a nanny and pay her half your salary and your kids will need therapy! You will literally ruin their lives.

[Anonymous]

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A smart professional nanny can save you tens of thousands of dollars in therapy costs for your child down the road. Easily.

HAHA. Here that kids!? Don't hire a nanny and pay her half your salary and your kids will need therapy! You will literally ruin their lives.

When you can't afford a nanny, it's best to avoid pretending that you can.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
A smart professional nanny can save you tens of thousands of dollars in therapy costs for your child down the road. Easily.

HAHA. Here that kids!? Don't hire a nanny and pay her half your salary and your kids will need therapy! You will literally ruin their lives.

When you can't afford a nanny, it's best to avoid pretending that you can.

I can afford more than $15/hr honey, but that is all a nanny is worth. She literally just plays with my children while I am earning enough money to support her and us. It couldn't be easier.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
A smart professional nanny can save you tens of thousands of dollars in therapy costs for your child down the road. Easily.

HAHA. Here that kids!? Don't hire a nanny and pay her half your salary and your kids will need therapy! You will literally ruin their lives.

When you can't afford a nanny, it's best to avoid pretending that you can.

I can afford more than $15/hr honey, but that is all a nanny is worth. She literally just plays with my children while I am earning enough money to support her and us. It couldn't be easier.

If that's all she's doing, she's a sitter, not a nanny. Your ignorance is astounding.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
A smart professional nanny can save you tens of thousands of dollars in therapy costs for your child down the road. Easily.

HAHA. Here that kids!? Don't hire a nanny and pay her half your salary and your kids will need therapy! You will literally ruin their lives.

When you can't afford a nanny, it's best to avoid pretending that you can.

I can afford more than $15/hr honey, but that is all a nanny is worth. She literally just plays with my children while I am earning enough money to support her and us. It couldn't be easier.

If that's all she's doing, she's a sitter, not a nanny. Your ignorance is astounding.

If you were grounded in reality you would see you people are taking people used to working with 20 small children for $12 an hour and offering them $20 to do a much easier job. You are just wasting your husbands money. Just because you pay her mom doesn't mean your retired preschool teacher is better than my retired preschool teacher, it just means your are less fiscally responsible than me, probably because I earn my own money.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
A smart professional nanny can save you tens of thousands of dollars in therapy costs for your child down the road. Easily.

HAHA. Here that kids!? Don't hire a nanny and pay her half your salary and your kids will need therapy! You will literally ruin their lives.

When you can't afford a nanny, it's best to avoid pretending that you can.

I can afford more than $15/hr honey, but that is all a nanny is worth. She literally just plays with my children while I am earning enough money to support her and us. It couldn't be easier.

If that's all she's doing, she's a sitter, not a nanny. Your ignorance is astounding.

If you were grounded in reality you would see you people are taking people used to working with 20 small children for $12 an hour and offering them $20 to do a much easier job. You are just wasting your husbands money. Just because you pay her mom doesn't mean your retired preschool teacher is better than my retired preschool teacher, it just means your are less fiscally responsible than me, probably because I earn my own money.

You're incoherent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
A smart professional nanny can save you tens of thousands of dollars in therapy costs for your child down the road. Easily.

HAHA. Here that kids!? Don't hire a nanny and pay her half your salary and your kids will need therapy! You will literally ruin their lives.

When you can't afford a nanny, it's best to avoid pretending that you can.

I can afford more than $15/hr honey, but that is all a nanny is worth. She literally just plays with my children while I am earning enough money to support her and us. It couldn't be easier.

If that's all she's doing, she's a sitter, not a nanny. Your ignorance is astounding.

If you were grounded in reality you would see you people are taking people used to working with 20 small children for $12 an hour and offering them $20 to do a much easier job. You are just wasting your husbands money. Just because you pay her mom doesn't mean your retired preschool teacher is better than my retired preschool teacher, it just means your are less fiscally responsible than me, probably because I earn my own money.

You're incoherent.

I can see how it would seem that way to someone with a less than stellar grasp of the English language.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there actually, in real life, nannies making $50/hr like in that other thread? Is that possible? What makes them worth that? I've seen threads about getting from $20/hr to $30, but $50 and above is such a huge jump..... I'm confused.

You need to know the rate, number of hours a week, and the time of the hours (night nanny?), to get a better picture. And city, and parents professions, travel, etc.

Since this seems to have stemmed from my post in the other thread, I am the person that posted about making $51.75 an hour this year. I work for a family in DC, both parents work, neither are "famous." Their house is nice but not an enormous mansion. I only worry about the kids and don't to chores. I try to wash dishes (most of them) as the kids are eating but sometimes I don't get to them. Occasionally I will finish them up before I leave after the parents relieve me but many times I will leave dirty dishes in the sink, it's never been an issue. I have only ever wiped down the kitchen counter after cooking and water spots after bath time, that is the extent of any cleaning I have ever done. The family has a cleaner that comes in every Wednesday for half a day to do a deep clean and tidy up. My charges eat solid food so I cook all our meals from scratch with fresh, whole food from the fridge stocked by the parents.

I teach the kids, I have many years of experience educating pre-K children. I engage them, I spark their curiosity. I am teaching them a third language (another European language, they speak English and a second European language). I work 8am to 4:30pm. Parents have never been late unannounced. Occasionally DB has arrived home at the correct time but asked me if I had the time to stay for 15-60 minutes so he can jump on a call, which I have always not had a problem with. There have only been 2 times in the last year they have asked me to babysit, I know they have used another person to babysit on other occasions. If they asked me more often to babysit I would say yes, but they don't. They are very respectful, we have a very friendly relationship. They ask me about my day and I ask about theirs, we exchange brief stories.

Just thought I would throw out some of the details to give one example. Everyone seems to be under the impression if you are making over a certain amount or working for certain types of families that your job suddenly becomes horrible and you are working 24/7.

Your job seems more like that of a governess than a nanny.