Survey - Market rate (range) for nanny/house assistant/keeper?

[Anonymous]

What's the going rate / range (low to high) for a FT nanny/housekeeper/manager? Direct childcare time (with kindergartener) will be about 15-20 hours per week. About 5-10 of those hours will also include an infant (after daycare pickup). Job requires driving (our car) to pick up kids from school and daycare. Rest of the schedule will be spent helping to keep house tidy/organized, running some (not all) household errands and housekeeping. Responsibilities and schedule will adjust during summer (likely to 50 hours) to focus on childcare for kindergartener. Guaranteed 40 hours per week all year. Blended (OT and base pay) rate up to 50 hours, with any hours over 50 at 1.5x the blended rate.

[Anonymous]

$15-25/hr is the range of most candidates and positions along the lines of what you're describing.

Variables include location, experience, hourly rate compared to number of hours, scope of the job, expectations regarding education, personality/fit, paying legally or under the table, american/citizen/legal foreign/illegal resident, etc...

Search here and you'll see how frequent this question is, how vitriolic and pointless the discussion gets, and how this is a pretty impossible question to answer usefully.

[Anonymous]

I'm in Montgomery County and am required to pay nanny (household employee) OT (1.5x normal hourly rate) for an hours exceeding 8 in a day or 40 in a week.

[Anonymous]

We have a housekeeper and we pay her $20/hr.

Most professional nannies worth hiring don't want to be housekeepers

[Anonymous]

I’m so confused. Why would your kindergarten age child be with the nanny MORE than she’d be with the infant? Most people with an infant and school age child who hire a nanny have the nanny with the younger child all day, and the school age child only does before/after with the nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a housekeeper and we pay her $20/hr.

Most professional nannies worth hiring don't want to be housekeepers

This exactly.

[Anonymous]

Only scam artists talk “blended rates”.
Nannies BEWARE.

[Anonymous]

Around $30-$35/hr. You might be able to find someone at $25/hr. But you are looking for someone who has experience with infants and older kids, is able to drive, and is willing to have little down time while being amendable to housekeeping. Not to mention, you need someone flexible enough to pick up more hours in summer. Most nannies can get $20-$25/hr with no household work.

[Anonymous]

Most Nannies do not like being housekeepers unfortunately.

This job sounds like a recipe for potential burnout.

Maid, chauffeur, laundress, Nanny, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a housekeeper and we pay her $20/hr.

Most professional nannies worth hiring don't want to be housekeepers

Most housekeepers don't want to be a nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most Nannies do not like being housekeepers unfortunately.

This job sounds like a recipe for potential burnout.

Maid, chauffeur, laundress, Nanny, etc.

$40/hr minimum unless you hire undocumented, which you probably will and pay her $15/hr.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most Nannies do not like being housekeepers unfortunately.

This job sounds like a recipe for potential burnout.

Maid, chauffeur, laundress, Nanny, etc.

$40/hr minimum unless you hire undocumented, which you probably will and pay her $15/hr.

Agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's the going rate / range (low to high) for a FT nanny/housekeeper/manager? Direct childcare time (with kindergartener) will be about 15-20 hours per week. About 5-10 of those hours will also include an infant (after daycare pickup). Job requires driving (our car) to pick up kids from school and daycare. Rest of the schedule will be spent helping to keep house tidy/organized, running some (not all) household errands and housekeeping. Responsibilities and schedule will adjust during summer (likely to 50 hours) to focus on childcare for kindergartener. Guaranteed 40 hours per week all year. Blended (OT and base pay) rate up to 50 hours, with any hours over 50 at 1.5x the blended rate.

There's only one way to find out - advertise a job and see who shows up. After a few interviews, you'll get a feel for the market.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the going rate / range (low to high) for a FT nanny/housekeeper/manager? Direct childcare time (with kindergartener) will be about 15-20 hours per week. About 5-10 of those hours will also include an infant (after daycare pickup). Job requires driving (our car) to pick up kids from school and daycare. Rest of the schedule will be spent helping to keep house tidy/organized, running some (not all) household errands and housekeeping. Responsibilities and schedule will adjust during summer (likely to 50 hours) to focus on childcare for kindergartener. Guaranteed 40 hours per week all year. Blended (OT and base pay) rate up to 50 hours, with any hours over 50 at 1.5x the blended rate.

There's only one way to find out - advertise a job and see who shows up. After a few interviews, you'll get a feel for the market.

This is how so many parents become disillusioned. They find miss perfect at bargain rates, and then 30 days later they’re here with endless complaints.

[Anonymous]

This is a bad site to ask this question. You won’t get a real answer. Ask your friends in real life who have a nanny/housekeeper. I know many of them and you probably do too.