Underpaid?
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Anonymous
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Just a question about pay.
I'm currently nannying once a week with the occasional extra days and I am getting paid $12 an hour for two kids. I am also expected to drive the kids to/ from school in the afternoons. So I drive to the house, watch the 2 year old, drive 30 minutes to pick the 7 year old up and then 30 minutes home. Some days also they want me to take them to a park that is 20 minutes away (so 40 minutes round trip). I didn't know about all this when I accepted the job so the discussion of gas money never gave up so I don't get extra for that. Today when I arrived the eldest had a friend over so I was watching 3 kids still only for $12 an hour. I am giving up shifts that I could be working at my regular job which pays $20 an hour to work with these kids and I do enjoy it but it's becoming not worth it anymore. Do you think I would be asking too much to be paid more and is it too late to change the rate now anyway? I have been offered a different nanny job for one child on another afternoon that is paying me $15 an hour for one child. What should I do? :/ |
Anonymous
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Sorry but if you'e working one day a week that's not nannying. That's a regular babysitting gig.
Just take the $15 an hour job and the first time they ask you to drive somewhere, tell them you need gas money. |
Anonymous
| Yes, you are underpaid! Why did you accept this babysitting gig for so little money? Give notice and take the other job. |
Anonymous
| I earn $18 an hour for one child. Yes, you should leave and take a better paying babysitting job. Don't accept less than $15. |
Anonymous
Don't be an idiot - of course you should quit!!! |
Anonymous
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Uh...Why are you giving up shifts at a $20/Hr. job in the first place for this job? I don't get it, this doesn't make any sense. (or dollars for that matter!)
And yes, you are being taken to the cleaners. This family is getting a great deal with you and are taking full advantage. Either ask for more or just take the $15/Hr. job right away. You do not work for charity, do you? Good luck either way. 
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Anonymous
| I don't get why you are giving up hours with your full time job which pays more but that's your choice. If you like the one day a week job, the kids and parents then I suggest talking to them about gas reimbursement which the federal rate is $00.56 a mile, a gas stipend each month, or a raise. If they are unwilling to do any of those options which it's illegal not to reimburse then I would quit and pick up the hours with your full time family. |
Anonymous
| I didn't even finish reading your story. Few first sentences were enough .... You are so underpaid !!!! |
Anonymous
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OP here, the reason I don't just quit and work my day job is because I don't get guaranteed hours that day, just every so often I get called in to work that day but have to say no because of this babysitting job.
Thanks for all your responses and I will chat to her about pay. I am taking the $15 an hour job as well as that's just one night a week for a couple of hours on a different day so I can still do both. So nervous about how to bring it up though! |