Is this a lowball offer?

[Anonymous]

So we met with a nanny candidate today that we really like and I'm debating what to offer her. We have a toddler and a newborn and need someone to watch them in our home for 25 hours a week.

She has around 3 years experience as a nanny but has raised 3 kids of her own. No education really and not CPR or First Aid trained.

I was thinking of offering her $17/hr with 6 days PTO and any major holidays that fall on a work day. Does that sound fair?

Oh and we live in the Springfield/Burke area.

[Anonymous]

Totally fair.

Make sure that she has to earn a PTO day once every two months - do not let her take all six days at the start of the year.

[Anonymous]

Yes sounds fair. Are you planning to guarantee her weekly pay? I would require that she get CPR certified, and offer to pay for the class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes sounds fair. Are you planning to guarantee her weekly pay? I would require that she get CPR certified, and offer to pay for the class.

OP here, yes we were planning on giving her a guaranteed $391 a week (23 hours at $17/hr). Good idea on paying for the CPR, thx.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes sounds fair. Are you planning to guarantee her weekly pay? I would require that she get CPR certified, and offer to pay for the class.

OP here, yes we were planning on giving her a guaranteed $391 a week (23 hours at $17/hr). Good idea on paying for the CPR, thx.

Do you really want an uneducated, unskilled, untrained person doing chest compressions and breathing for your child after a 2 hour class?

[Anonymous]

Definitely fair for someone with no degree.

[Anonymous]

That's a great offer. I think you should require both CPR and first aid training, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes sounds fair. Are you planning to guarantee her weekly pay? I would require that she get CPR certified, and offer to pay for the class.

OP here, yes we were planning on giving her a guaranteed $391 a week (23 hours at $17/hr). Good idea on paying for the CPR, thx.

Do you really want an uneducated, unskilled, untrained person doing chest compressions and breathing for your child after a 2 hour class?

What would you suggest then? That she hire a registered nurse as her nanny?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes sounds fair. Are you planning to guarantee her weekly pay? I would require that she get CPR certified, and offer to pay for the class.

OP here, yes we were planning on giving her a guaranteed $391 a week (23 hours at $17/hr). Good idea on paying for the CPR, thx.

Do you really want an uneducated, unskilled, untrained person doing chest compressions and breathing for your child after a 2 hour class?

More than someone with no training? Yes. I'll take the person with the two hour class.

[Anonymous]

Lol thats a great offer for a beginner, not an experienced nanny.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't discount the fact that she is a mother who has raised her own children OP.

That in itself is worthy of many years of life experience. You know, many prestigious university colleges actually hand out college credits for life experience.

I would much prefer a nanny who had actual real-life hands on parental experience vs. one who just studied in from a textbook and earned her Early Childhood Development Units.

[Anonymous]

You don't need a fancy college degree to change a diaper or sing abcs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don't need a fancy college degree to change a diaper or sing abcs

I keep seeing posts mentioning fancy college degrees, or meaningless degrees. It appears that some parents are resentful of nannies with degrees. Newsflash!.......some families require one. I guess you have to deal with it, or go and join your partner under the bridge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don't need a fancy college degree to change a diaper or sing abcs

I keep seeing posts mentioning fancy college degrees, or meaningless degrees. It appears that some parents are resentful of nannies with degrees. Newsflash!.......some families require one. I guess you have to deal with it, or go and join your partner under the bridge.

I don't necessarily think it's parents posting this, it could be uneducated nannies. Or someone who is neither a parent nor a nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don't need a fancy college degree to change a diaper or sing abcs

I keep seeing posts mentioning fancy college degrees, or meaningless degrees. It appears that some parents are resentful of nannies with degrees. Newsflash!.......some families require one. I guess you have to deal with it, or go and join your partner under the bridge.

I don't necessarily think it's parents posting this, it could be uneducated nannies. Or someone who is neither a parent nor a nanny.

Ok, i guess that's a possibility. I work part-time as a nanny, and refuse to apologize for my degree.