How much would you pay???

[Anonymous]

How much would you pay for a full-time nanny (40hrs) for a 4 year old in Palo Alto, CA (Bay Area)

Offering:
2 weeks vacation
3 sick days
Public holidays
No Housekeeping
Light Meal prep (aka preparing snacks/ lunch for just 4 year old)
Mileage compensated if incurred, but everything within 3 block radius for classes, swimming, park, library, art center, etc.

Any other info needed to determine rate, let me know.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

3 sick days? A year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:3 sick days? A year?

That's not unusual.

[Anonymous]

What are the hours like? Doesn't the child go to pre-school? Depends if nanny is being paid to guarantee availability vs actually taking care of kid

[Anonymous]

You live in the Bay Area.

VERY very high cost of living area.

It is rare to find a Nanny in that part of the U.S. who will work below $20/HR.

[Anonymous]

$20 doesn't seem like much out there. My partner was out there for business and paid a woman with a home daycare $18 an hour

[Anonymous]

Your package isn't great so I would say at least $25 an hour - possibly more.

[Anonymous]

I don't know the area OP. I do think the sick leave is a little light. You could perhaps offer 13 personal days instead, w/ great flexibility on usage but the same amount of leave.

My hunch is that our $15/hr starting rate for a nanny is equivalent to $20/hr in your area, which means you probably need to be able to pay more to have a strong, experienced candidate pool. But you'll need a more local resource to get truly useful information.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$20 doesn't seem like much out there. My partner was out there for business and paid a woman with a home daycare $18 an hour

That seems every high. We were paying about $1600 a month for preschool and aftercare.

[Anonymous]

I live in that area. I assume you are offering full time hours. Nannies start around $20/hr for someone English speaking with references. Most of my friends with nannies pay around $22-$25 per hour and have nannies with more experience (10 years or so).

[Anonymous]

OP here.

I didn't think 3 sick days was light, we have 5 days in our positions so not really comfortable providing 15 as someone suggested. I think that is a bit ridiculous.

We both speak Spanish so English speaking is not a requirement.

-40 hrs with child, no preschool.
-All recognized holidays

Re: making a more attractive package:
We are both in academia (university) and can offer time off during winter/Christmas breaks, At least a week for New year's, 5 days off thanksgiving week, spring breaks, Easter a few days off. How would you structure this? I didn't put more than 2 weeks vacation because these are set periods, while vacation time the employee chooses.


We have full time daycare and preschool options for 1200-1600 in our neighborhood so I'm going to have to disagree with $18/hr for a home daycare.

We have some candidates with varying rates of experience, all native Spanish speakers. We start interviewing this weekend and want to be sure we have a base to start from, negotiations wise.

[Anonymous]

OP again:

The schedule is 8-4pm if that matters.

[Anonymous]

Your hourly rate is low, OP. I am assuming you will be paying under the table which makes it a bit more attractive to an undocumented nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your hourly rate is low, OP. I am assuming you will be paying under the table which makes it a bit more attractive to an undocumented nanny.

OP here.

I never posted an hourly rate... I asked what it should be. I only mentioned that the daycares in the area are not $18/hr. I've been given rates of 1200-1600/month for home daycare and small centers on Palo Alto and Mountain View.

[Anonymous]

Bump?

Any thoughts/comments on making the package more attractive in my previous comments?