Additional pay for nanny with 2nd child

[Anonymous]

I am expecting baby #2 and am due in early June.
Our soon to be 2 year old has been cared for by our nanny since he was 3 months old.
We live in NW DC and pay $20/hr for full time childcare (guaranteed 45 hrs per week including OT pay), with standard vacation/sick time.

We would like to keep our current nanny as our son has bonded with her, and we generally have a good relationship with her.

We are planning to offer her an additional $2/hr once baby #2 comes along.

Is this a reasonable salary increase?

Thanks in advance!

[Anonymous]

My hourly rate increased to $22 when the new baby came; age 2 and 4 months. Eastern Market area.

[Anonymous]

My nanny asked for $5/hour.

[Anonymous]

Sounds reasonable to me, OP.

[Anonymous]

I also want to add: if she has a lot of responsibilities in addition to caring for the children (housekeeping, laundry, cooking etc) then $3-5 sounds more reasonable.

[Anonymous]

Do you give annual raises? I would ask $3-5, but would be happy to include my annual raise as part of that.

[Anonymous]

OP: nanny does not do additional household chores beyond what is expected as part of her childcare duties—child’s laundry once weekly and preparing his breakfast and lunch (often leftovers).
We did not offer her a raise yet since she started working with us.
Thanks for the feedback this far!

[Anonymous]

Caring for an add’l newborn while continuing caring for your two-yr. old is going to be A LOT.

The dynamic is totally going to flip it’s lid.

I would either pay $2/Hr. for the add’l newborn & let Nanny know that she will not be responsible for the children’s laundry duties or if you still want her to do their weekly laundry, I would up the pay $3-4/Hr.

I think just adding two extra dollars for an infant is unfair since newborns are a TON of work.

Good luck.

[Anonymous]

$2 extra an hour is really not enough.
Think $5 and she'll be happy. $2 is a slap in the face and she will probably leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Caring for an add’l newborn while continuing caring for your two-yr. old is going to be A LOT.

The dynamic is totally going to flip it’s lid.

I would either pay $2/Hr. for the add’l newborn & let Nanny know that she will not be responsible for the children’s laundry duties or if you still want her to do their weekly laundry, I would up the pay $3-4/Hr.

I think just adding two extra dollars for an infant is unfair since newborns are a TON of work.

Good luck.

Adding a second child is a lot of work. Tons! A two dollar raise does not seem like quite enough you might want to consider 3 to 4 dollars and reducing other responsibilities .

[Anonymous]

In the 8 years I've been on this board OP the most common number I've heard is a $2 increase per hour, with some flexibility about workload in the early infancy days. (Such as not requiring the nanny to take an older child to as many activities, or as many walks to the park, etc... when also caring for an infant in early months.)

Often an older child will go to part-time preschool around the same time a new baby is born, so that can help manage nanny overload.

[Anonymous]

in San Francisco. We did an extra $1 an hour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the 8 years I've been on this board OP the most common number I've heard is a $2 increase per hour, with some flexibility about workload in the early infancy days. (Such as not requiring the nanny to take an older child to as many activities, or as many walks to the park, etc... when also caring for an infant in early months.)

Often an older child will go to part-time preschool around the same time a new baby is born, so that can help manage nanny overload.

I’m pretty sure OP will wait until her kid is 3 to go to school for free.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:in San Francisco. We did an extra $1 an hour.

$1 an hour in SF is really a slap in the face.
You should be ashamed of yourself.

[Anonymous]

I would agree with the $2 raise in addition to the $1 raise you didn’t give her after she’d been with you for a year. At the very least.