Nanny Contract

[Anonymous]

What is normal as far as how many sick days and pto do you provide for your Nanny? Holidays and paid leave? I would like to know what is basic please. Full time live out Nanny.

[Anonymous]

I did 15 days of PTO. I didn't want to separate out sick days from vacation - I feel like that breeds lying. If you need a mental health day just take a day off. If you want a day off to recover from a weekend in Vegas, don't call in sick.

15 days gives two weeks of vacation and 3 sick days and 2 floating holidays. We give all federal holidays off. We also have a full time live out nanny.

[Anonymous]

I asked for a weeks worth (36 hours in my case) of PTO/sick time and a week's vacation. After a year, I will increase my vacation to two weeks. I also get paid for all federal holidays.

[Anonymous]

10 days of vacation, and 3-5 sick days are normal, but some nannies with lots of experience may ask for more. This is the only industry that I know of where someone with over a decade of experience is expected to be satisfied with the benefits of a recent college grad...

[Anonymous]

I did 15 days of PTO. I didn't want to separate out sick days from vacation - I feel like that breeds lying. If you need a mental health day just take a day off. If you want a day off to recover from a weekend in Vegas, don't call in sick.

15 days gives two weeks of vacation and 3 sick days and 2 floating holidays. We give all federal holidays off. We also have a full time live out nanny.

We do something very similar, except I do not offer all Fed holidays because I don't get all Fed holidays and need coverage for the "less popular" Fed holidays. I am very specific in the contract about which holidays we can offer and add some extras (day after Thanksgiving and two additional holidays for her personal cultural celebrations that she requested. We also give her her birthday off paid).

It seems to work very well for us.

[Anonymous]

We give two weeks vacation (one of our choosing, one of hers), one week sick, and all federals holidays that I (mom) have off - which is 10.

We allow one week of carryover/banked leave into the next year. We also give occasional extra days off around holidays etc...

[Anonymous]

We do all standard Federal holidays (ie not Veteran's Day or Columbus Day) and then she gets 1 week of vacation at her discretion and 1 week of sick. As a family, we take 4-5 weeks of vacation - which she knows about well in advance - and we pay her while we're away.

[Anonymous]

We do one week vacation of our choosing, one of hers, both with 45 day notice. (We end up taking 5-6 weeks off a year).

5 major national holidays (we both work federal holidays).

Unlimited paid sick days (rarely used). If something major came up we'd have to work out a solution.

[Anonymous]

10 days of vacation, and 3-5 sick days are normal, but some nannies with lots of experience may ask for more. This is the only industry that I know of where someone with over a decade of experience is expected to be satisfied with the benefits of a recent college grad...

Experience doesn't automatically translate into higher wages because the job details set the rate. Most parents don't need or want to pay a higher rate for toddler care unless the child has special needs or the nanny has an exceptional skill parents want to pay for, like a second language. Simply doing a job that requires no education or certification and one where experience doesn't equal a better nanny is not worth more money.

[Anonymous]

We started out with room to grow. The first year we offered all major federal holidays, one week paid vacation and 35 hours of PTO (her average week). In the second year we expanded it to two weeks paid vacation. We actually can't do much more as that is all the time DH and I have off (I'm banking for maternity leave in a year or so). I should also mention that we pay our nanny well and increase her salary by $1 an hour every year and intend to keep doing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

10 days of vacation, and 3-5 sick days are normal, but some nannies with lots of experience may ask for more. This is the only industry that I know of where someone with over a decade of experience is expected to be satisfied with the benefits of a recent college grad...

Experience doesn't automatically translate into higher wages because the job details set the rate. Most parents don't need or want to pay a higher rate for toddler care unless the child has special needs or the nanny has an exceptional skill parents want to pay for, like a second language. Simply doing a job that requires no education or certification and one where experience doesn't equal a better nanny is not worth more money.

I couldn't disagree more. As a FTM I wanted a nanny with a lot of infant experience since neither DH nor I had it. And she is/was far more expensive than the other less experienced nannies we interviewed. She was also a college graduate with years of experience as a preschool teacher which is also something we found worth paying more for.

Just watching a kid takes no experience but teaching a child does require both experience and education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

10 days of vacation, and 3-5 sick days are normal, but some nannies with lots of experience may ask for more. This is the only industry that I know of where someone with over a decade of experience is expected to be satisfied with the benefits of a recent college grad...

Experience doesn't automatically translate into higher wages because the job details set the rate. Most parents don't need or want to pay a higher rate for toddler care unless the child has special needs or the nanny has an exceptional skill parents want to pay for, like a second language. Simply doing a job that requires no education or certification and one where experience doesn't equal a better nanny is not worth more money.

I couldn't disagree more. As a FTM I wanted a nanny with a lot of infant experience since neither DH nor I had it. And she is/was far more expensive than the other less experienced nannies we interviewed. She was also a college graduate with years of experience as a preschool teacher which is also something we found worth paying more for.

Just watching a kid takes no experience but teaching a child does require both experience and education.

And millions of drug addicted teens raise a kid with no knowledge of infants and no help and it all works out, but you want some child raising expert (self proclaimed)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

10 days of vacation, and 3-5 sick days are normal, but some nannies with lots of experience may ask for more. This is the only industry that I know of where someone with over a decade of experience is expected to be satisfied with the benefits of a recent college grad...

Experience doesn't automatically translate into higher wages because the job details set the rate. Most parents don't need or want to pay a higher rate for toddler care unless the child has special needs or the nanny has an exceptional skill parents want to pay for, like a second language. Simply doing a job that requires no education or certification and one where experience doesn't equal a better nanny is not worth more money.

I couldn't disagree more. As a FTM I wanted a nanny with a lot of infant experience since neither DH nor I had it. And she is/was far more expensive than the other less experienced nannies we interviewed. She was also a college graduate with years of experience as a preschool teacher which is also something we found worth paying more for.

Just watching a kid takes no experience but teaching a child does require both experience and education.

And millions of drug addicted teens raise a kid with no knowledge of infants and no help and it all works out, but you want some child raising expert (self proclaimed)?

You're super stupid if you think that "all works out."
I mean, really.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

10 days of vacation, and 3-5 sick days are normal, but some nannies with lots of experience may ask for more. This is the only industry that I know of where someone with over a decade of experience is expected to be satisfied with the benefits of a recent college grad...

Experience doesn't automatically translate into higher wages because the job details set the rate. Most parents don't need or want to pay a higher rate for toddler care unless the child has special needs or the nanny has an exceptional skill parents want to pay for, like a second language. Simply doing a job that requires no education or certification and one where experience doesn't equal a better nanny is not worth more money.

You are clearly no business woman.
Good thing most parents have higher standards than you apparently do.

[Anonymous]

Nanny jobs often reset. Sometimes experience counts and you can certainly try to pitch 0yrs vs 5 yrs vs 10vs 15 years and see what happens. Some families my pay marginally more or materially more not at all.