If your nanny travels with you, what do you pay?

[Anonymous]

We are hesitating to bring her on trips because of the cost, but she really wants to come, and of course it will make the trip easier on us. At home she makes 19/hour for 40 hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are hesitating to bring her on trips because of the cost, but she really wants to come, and of course it will make the trip easier on us. At home she makes 19/hour for 40 hours.

Your nanny need to have a separate bedroom while traveling or legally it is considered working her around the clock and paying her to sleep in the same room as the children is an expense. She also need to be paid overtime for every hour over 40.

[Anonymous]

I travel with my NF, they asked me what I wanted and I said just my normal salary. Don't listen to the people on this board, these nannies are just greedy.

When I travel with my NF I barely work, they are with the kids all the time and I get to explore on my own with a car they provide. It's more like babysitting than nannying.

I would just ask her what she wants, if she really wants to come like you said then she won't price herself out of the trip. Most nannies are not the money-hungry grubs that troll this forum. I bet she will suggest something reasonable.

[Anonymous]

I've always made my regular salary. I've even slept in a room with older school age children. Usually my actual working hrs on vacation is a lot less I just watch the kids so the parents can go out to dinner alone things like that.

[Anonymous]

It is not about "greed" it is about being LEGAL. Even if the nanny wanted to sleep in the same room with the kids on vacation, it is considered working them around the clock. The same reason you are not permitted to have a line-in nanny share a bedroom with her charge.

Some of you nannies are clearly just "girls" and do not understand that in a place like Washington, DC, many, many parents are forced to follow the law to the letter.

[Anonymous]

BTW this is the forum for EMPLOYERS of nannies - not nannies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are hesitating to bring her on trips because of the cost, but she really wants to come, and of course it will make the trip easier on us. At home she makes 19/hour for 40 hours.

We've done it a couple time bc she was excited to go to Europe. She earns her regular weekly salary and we cover her flight, room and some meals.m

Net net if your kids are age 6+ and want to go in your trip, or biz trip I would hire a hotel or temp recommended nanny on site. My hey are fantastic and know where to go. My kid had a blast with one going around London during the day when I was at meetings, and same for in Paris. Also hotels can easily help you find a good sitter at nights.

Less hassle, makes more sense, not a never ending money pit. That said if your nanny has a good attitude about things (less of the, Yay free vacation, food and tickets mentality) it could work out. We did this on a long wedding trip once.

[Anonymous]

We pay for all expenses, usually a suite for us and a room for him. If he's taking care of the kids on the flight we pay for those hours. If he's not, we pay halftime. We pay regular salary and generally give $30-50 a day for meals if he's not eating with us. When we are on vacation he works less then his normal hours, but they are irregular and harder btwn time changes and not having the regular toys and space.

[Anonymous]

There are a few variables, such as the age of your children, flying vs driving, and destination.

I've traveled with families many times.
-They always pay for my transportation. Plane tickets, they drive the car, or in one instance where I drove my own car they paid for my gas.
-I sometimes had my own room. When I shared a room with the kids, they slept through the night, always. These were usually on very busy vacations, like Disney, where we were all so tired by the end of the night that all we did was sleep.
If I shared a room, it was because we had a suite style set up or we were all in the same house.
-Family pays for all of my food while there. The exception to this was if I was "off" and out shopping during a typical meal time, or if I met up with a friend for dinner while "off."
-If I chose to buy souvenirs, I paid for them.

Usually we agreed to a set amount of money before the trip, as well as some basic guidelines. Some of these might include:
-I'd have time off every day when the kids napped, so I could go to the beach or the pool and the parents would stay at the house.
-I'd watch the kids x amount of nights during the trip so parents could go out to eat
-I'd have the entire morning/afternoon/day off on x day so I could shop/lay on the beach/visit the Disney parks (what I did depended on that particular vacation, of course)

There was only one time I traveled with a family and it was a bad experience. Overall, I usually have fun.

[Anonymous]

15:21, that is helpful.
But when you are "off", are you being paid?
In other words, do I have to pay her for every waking hour if she is away with us?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:15:21, that is helpful.
But when you are "off", are you being paid?
In other words, do I have to pay her for every waking hour if she is away with us?

I'm glad it helped.
For that answer, you might need to sit down with your nanny to find out her expectations. Since she's asking to come with you on vacations, I'm guessing you're going somewhere she'd like to visit but might not be able to on her own?
It's hard for me to say because I'm not your nanny Also, I don't know the location, how many kids, their ages, how many hours you'll expect her to work during the week, etc.

I'd look at where you're going and what your expectations are in terms of her helping you. I'd expect to pay her at minimum her normal weekly rate + travel/food expenses.

[Anonymous]

When our nanny travels with us we do get her a separate room and our room is adjoining the kids. We set a schedule for when she is working and when she is off. We pay her usual salary, of course, plus all travel, room and meal expenses and give her two days completely off for herself as we would a weekend. Other than that we pay if we go over her usual hours as we would at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:15:21, that is helpful.
But when you are "off", are you being paid?
In other words, do I have to pay her for every waking hour if she is away with us?

Not the PP but we don't not pay our nanny when we are away and she is "off". We do give her a separate room however and cover all her meals whether she is working or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:15:21, that is helpful.
But when you are "off", are you being paid?
In other words, do I have to pay her for every waking hour if she is away with us?

We don't, neither do any other World Bank families we work with. And we all love to rotate which kid we take where, or if the nanny comes or not. She is paid her usual salary, and we buy her flight, food and room. Sometimes we share a room or suite. If it is a family trip we work out which blocks of time, what days we need her to do her 8-9 hours. We are usually traveling abroad or to the Caribbean so when she does have free time it's a new place and nothing crazy going on.

[Anonymous]

You should cover her airfare, hotel room and meals PLUS pay her salary as well.

In huge corporations, employees get their travel/hotel/meals for free and they also get their regular salaries.

Why is the nanny profession so different?