How much to offer a nanny in Montgomery County? 2 Children

[Anonymous]

How much to offer a nanny? Leaving nanny-share due to new baby. Have a 22 month old and 3 month old. Live in Montgomery County. Need 40 hours/week. 2 weeks vacation and 1 week sick leave/year. All Federal Holiday's off. Ranges I see are all over the place. We want to be fair and give her/him a good salary, but balance that with my income otherwise it may make more financial sense for me to stay home. Above all, we want someone who is going to be caring and keep our children safe. We were thinking around $20-21/hr (gross income).

[Anonymous]

You'll get lots of applicants at that rate OP - it's competitive and fair.

[Anonymous]

That sounds like a good salary and most importantly great hours.

[Anonymous]

My rate is $30 per hour, so start interviewing and see what you get at the cheaper rates.

[Anonymous]

The salary ranges you see are all over the place because a nanny’s education, experience and special skills are all over the place. You can get a no education, little experience nanny for $21. A nanny with a college degree, teaching experience, sleep training, years of being a nanny with excellent references etc. will be much more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The salary ranges you see are all over the place because a nanny’s education, experience and special skills are all over the place. You can get a no education, little experience nanny for $21. A nanny with a college degree, teaching experience, sleep training, years of being a nanny with excellent references etc. will be much more.

completely disagree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The salary ranges you see are all over the place because a nanny’s education, experience and special skills are all over the place. You can get a no education, little experience nanny for $21. A nanny with a college degree, teaching experience, sleep training, years of being a nanny with excellent references etc. will be much more.

you will get qualified nannies with that rate. Qualified to me means, a few years experience with this age group, lots of patience and initiative. A good driver and cpr certified. I persinally dont care if you have a degree, experience means more to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The salary ranges you see are all over the place because a nanny’s education, experience and special skills are all over the place. You can get a no education, little experience nanny for $21. A nanny with a college degree, teaching experience, sleep training, years of being a nanny with excellent references etc. will be much more.

you will get qualified nannies with that rate. Qualified to me means, a few years experience with this age group, lots of patience and initiative. A good driver and cpr certified. I persinally dont care if you have a degree, experience means more to me.

What about any kind of training? What good is experience if it's the wrong kind? I guess most parents don't know what constitutes competence, so how would they recognize it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The salary ranges you see are all over the place because a nanny’s education, experience and special skills are all over the place. You can get a no education, little experience nanny for $21. A nanny with a college degree, teaching experience, sleep training, years of being a nanny with excellent references etc. will be much more.

you will get qualified nannies with that rate. Qualified to me means, a few years experience with this age group, lots of patience and initiative. A good driver and cpr certified. I persinally dont care if you have a degree, experience means more to me.

You can get a nanny with a degree AND experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The salary ranges you see are all over the place because a nanny’s education, experience and special skills are all over the place. You can get a no education, little experience nanny for $21. A nanny with a college degree, teaching experience, sleep training, years of being a nanny with excellent references etc. will be much more.

you will get qualified nannies with that rate. Qualified to me means, a few years experience with this age group, lots of patience and initiative. A good driver and cpr certified. I persinally dont care if you have a degree, experience means more to me.

What about any kind of training? What good is experience if it's the wrong kind? I guess most parents don't know what constitutes competence, so how would they recognize it?

You definitely want your nanny candidates to have the long cpr/first aid training certification that daycare owners have to have. You will get a feel when you read their resumes and you talk to them. You get (hopefully) your feelings confirmed when you speak to their references. You can specifically ask for candidates with experience with your child’s age group. Former daycare or preschool teachers are always prime candidates.

[Anonymous]

as long as its not the loony "nannies" posting on dcum, they're hired!

[Anonymous]

Have you seen the cost of living in montgomery county? a 1 bedroom apartment is now at least $1300/month. With what you are offering the nanny would have to go live in temple hills to survive. At least offer $25/h for those two kids or take them to a daycare for less than that. I have to say this, lower middle class earners should not hire nannies. Too much issues for the nanny to deal with.

[Anonymous]

$18-20/ hr cash if 40+ hours a week

$20-22/ hr W-2 if 40+ hours a week

Leave room for annual raises if the kids are little. If one or both kids are already in school part-time, maybe do less hours at the high end of rates or structure something else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you seen the cost of living in montgomery county? a 1 bedroom apartment is now at least $1300/month. With what you are offering the nanny would have to go live in temple hills to survive. At least offer $25/h for those two kids or take them to a daycare for less than that. I have to say this, lower middle class earners should not hire nannies. Too much issues for the nanny to deal with.

I live with a roommate so split the expenses. Market sets the wages, not my living choices.

[Anonymous]

and there are $800 rooms in my Bethesda neighborhood if you look on listservs. rockville is more reasonable as well, the garden style apartments.