College degree required... $25 an hour

[Anonymous]

I am a teacher and browsing in care for date night jobs.
I saw a post from a family wanting full time nanny care. College degree required & $25 an hour. Is this something people can afford to take on? $25 an hour seems fairly low for demanding a 4 year degree

[Anonymous]

I’m a nanny with a college degree and I started at $25 an hour three years ago. It’s not a bad hourly wage now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher and browsing in care for date night jobs.
I saw a post from a family wanting full time nanny care. College degree required & $25 an hour. Is this something people can afford to take on? $25 an hour seems fairly low for demanding a 4 year degree

Have you ever computed your hourly wage as a teacher, OP? As a preschool teacher I don’t earn close to $25 an hour.

[Anonymous]

Op here. So if it was $25 & health insurance, pension, summers officials ect i could understand. But with student loans, retirement savings, health insurance it just seems not possible. Maybe when I retired & did not really need the money.
Regardless- it’s not the job I’m looking for. Just didn’t think you could demand a 4 year degree with a low price point

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. So if it was $25 & health insurance, pension, summers officials ect i could understand. But with student loans, retirement savings, health insurance it just seems not possible. Maybe when I retired & did not really need the money.
Regardless- it’s not the job I’m looking for. Just didn’t think you could demand a 4 year degree with a low price point

You can ask for anything. What you get is another matter.

[Anonymous]

Many entry-level office jobs pay well under $25/hour ($52,000/year).

[Anonymous]

My first nursing job paid $21 an hour...slightly more responsibility than nannying. $25/hr for one FOUR year old is amazing.

[Anonymous]

A lot of jobs with degrees only pay that much.

[Anonymous]

Professional nannies: Those professional 4-yr. nursing and teaching jobs come with full benefits. Benefits are generally worth about 30% of your salary. So if you are expected to pay your own benefits you need to bump up that salary from $25/hr to 7.50 more per hour. If you are told that $25 is enough to pay your own benefits than subtract that 7.50 per hour and you are making a maybe-high-school-grad-babysitter salary.

If you are a teacher in MoCo your *starting* salary is about 50K plus full bennies. Not sure what nursing salaries are but my BSN neighbors make very good money at Children's Hospital.

Date night babysitter? I think $25 is fine, up to 2 kids. I am a MoCo teacher and i have done it for extra money for families in my neighborhood. This is for babysitting, not homework/ tutoring -- make this very clear to the employers. Babysitting = watching TV and making cupcakes and playing board games.

[Anonymous]

Not everyone graduates from college with student loans. I didn't. I started working 19-25 hours a week when I was 13. First babysitting and delivering newspapers, then retail. In the summers, I routinely worked a full time day job and a second job nights and weekends.

Between savings, financial aid, jobs like work study, and scholarships I graduated from college with no debt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of jobs with degrees only pay that much.

Yes, but presumably have benefits, FMLA, tuition reimbursement, FSA ect.
I started teaching at 50 (roughly $25 an hour) and now I’m at 109k, teaching.
I’m not knocking anyone who works a decent wage. But I am questioning an employer who thinks $25 an hour = the same as a 50k office job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of jobs with degrees only pay that much.

Yes, but presumably have benefits, FMLA, tuition reimbursement, FSA ect.
I started teaching at 50 (roughly $25 an hour) and now I’m at 109k, teaching.
I’m not knocking anyone who works a decent wage. But I am questioning an employer who thinks $25 an hour = the same as a 50k office job.

Why do you think most jobs have benefits? Sure, big corporations do must not small businesses or start ups.

[Anonymous]

^^ they were asking for a 4 year edu degree. Most folks with edu degrees work for school districts. School districts have benefits. Some are better than others- but basic needs are met. So that’s why I’m comparing a 50k nanny to a 50k teacher, with benefits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^ they were asking for a 4 year edu degree. Most folks with edu degrees work for school districts. School districts have benefits. Some are better than others- but basic needs are met. So that’s why I’m comparing a 50k nanny to a 50k teacher, with benefits.

Understood.

[Anonymous]

I retired from teaching and took a nanny position with one child starting at $25 an hour ( four years ago). I agree that $25 today, with a bachelors degree, is low. Of course it depends on the area.