Instead of a raise... Is this unreasonable?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
And yes, she has a written agreement, but what does that have to do with anything? It doesn't promise her an annual raise.

I don't have any degrees, but still earn $25/hr for one child.

Exactly the same here. Never finished my college degree, currently making $25 an hour base plus perks.

[Anonymous]

You are getting ripped off. I have a PT Nanny/ Housekeeper for $16/hr 1pm-5:30pm. She does all laundry, grocery shopping, straightening, orgnaizing, errand running, and basic meal prep.

My kids no longer need major care. All she has to do is get them off the bas, fox a snack and make sure thry start on homework.

Now that my kids are older, our needs have shifted to more housekeeping/driver.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would switch to an au pair for a year and see how that goes. You basically need child care on call at this point, which is what APs are good for. Although the whole living with thing can be a pain; but with your age children and hours you need you would be a dream family for them.

Yup. This is exactly what APS are for. You'd have no problem attracting a great one since you have school aged kids. It's half the price and yiu can hire additional housekeeping duties from someone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
And yes, she has a written agreement, but what does that have to do with anything? It doesn't promise her an annual raise.

I don't have any degrees, but still earn $25/hr for one child.

Exactly the same here. Never finished my college degree, currently making $25 an hour base plus perks.
If OP's nanny could get the same gig, she would have by now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
And yes, she has a written agreement, but what does that have to do with anything? It doesn't promise her an annual raise.

I don't have any degrees, but still earn $25/hr for one child.

Exactly the same here. Never finished my college degree, currently making $25 an hour base plus perks.

If OP's nanny could get the same gig, she would have by now.

Not necessarily. There are so many people that are to scared to rock the status quo. Thats why you hear about some people who started out making minimum wage and are now executives, and others who have worked at McDonalds for 32 years and still don't own a franchise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would switch to an au pair for a year and see how that goes. You basically need child care on call at this point, which is what APs are good for. Although the whole living with thing can be a pain; but with your age children and hours you need you would be a dream family for them.

Yup. This is exactly what APS are for. You'd have no problem attracting a great one since you have school aged kids. It's half the price and yiu can hire additional housekeeping duties from someone else.

OP here- I would love to do that, and I thought about it, but we don't have the room. Of course if we could put part of the $50k nanny salary toward a new mortgage we could probably afford something bigger but moving is a whole new level of complication that yI'm not prepared to deal with right now!