Serious question, professional nannies

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I know a wealthy family in NYC who pays their nanny $42 an hour - it happens. She travels with them when frequently needed and maintains her own apartment in Manhattan near where they live. She only has a BA in Education and maybe six or seven years of experience.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there actually, in real life, nannies making $50/hr like in that other thread? Is that possible? What makes them worth that? I've seen threads about getting from $20/hr to $30, but $50 and above is such a huge jump..... I'm confused.

You need to know the rate, number of hours a week, and the time of the hours (night nanny?), to get a better picture. And city, and parents professions, travel, etc.

Since this seems to have stemmed from my post in the other thread, I am the person that posted about making $51.75 an hour this year. I work for a family in DC, both parents work, neither are "famous." Their house is nice but not an enormous mansion. I only worry about the kids and don't to chores. I try to wash dishes (most of them) as the kids are eating but sometimes I don't get to them. Occasionally I will finish them up before I leave after the parents relieve me but many times I will leave dirty dishes in the sink, it's never been an issue. I have only ever wiped down the kitchen counter after cooking and water spots after bath time, that is the extent of any cleaning I have ever done. The family has a cleaner that comes in every Wednesday for half a day to do a deep clean and tidy up. My charges eat solid food so I cook all our meals from scratch with fresh, whole food from the fridge stocked by the parents.

I teach the kids, I have many years of experience educating pre-K children. I engage them, I spark their curiosity. I am teaching them a third language (another European language, they speak English and a second European language). I work 8am to 4:30pm. Parents have never been late unannounced. Occasionally DB has arrived home at the correct time but asked me if I had the time to stay for 15-60 minutes so he can jump on a call, which I have always not had a problem with. There have only been 2 times in the last year they have asked me to babysit, I know they have used another person to babysit on other occasions. If they asked me more often to babysit I would say yes, but they don't. They are very respectful, we have a very friendly relationship. They ask me about my day and I ask about theirs, we exchange brief stories.

Just thought I would throw out some of the details to give one example. Everyone seems to be under the impression if you are making over a certain amount or working for certain types of families that your job suddenly becomes horrible and you are working 24/7.

Your job seems more like that of a governess than a nanny.

What does that mean? Isn't that just a nanny in the UK?

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Anonymous wrote:Are there actually, in real life, nannies making $50/hr like in that other thread? Is that possible? What makes them worth that? I've seen threads about getting from $20/hr to $30, but $50 and above is such a huge jump..... I'm confused.

You need to know the rate, number of hours a week, and the time of the hours (night nanny?), to get a better picture. And city, and parents professions, travel, etc.

Since this seems to have stemmed from my post in the other thread, I am the person that posted about making $51.75 an hour this year. I work for a family in DC, both parents work, neither are "famous." Their house is nice but not an enormous mansion. I only worry about the kids and don't to chores. I try to wash dishes (most of them) as the kids are eating but sometimes I don't get to them. Occasionally I will finish them up before I leave after the parents relieve me but many times I will leave dirty dishes in the sink, it's never been an issue. I have only ever wiped down the kitchen counter after cooking and water spots after bath time, that is the extent of any cleaning I have ever done. The family has a cleaner that comes in every Wednesday for half a day to do a deep clean and tidy up. My charges eat solid food so I cook all our meals from scratch with fresh, whole food from the fridge stocked by the parents.

I teach the kids, I have many years of experience educating pre-K children. I engage them, I spark their curiosity. I am teaching them a third language (another European language, they speak English and a second European language). I work 8am to 4:30pm. Parents have never been late unannounced. Occasionally DB has arrived home at the correct time but asked me if I had the time to stay for 15-60 minutes so he can jump on a call, which I have always not had a problem with. There have only been 2 times in the last year they have asked me to babysit, I know they have used another person to babysit on other occasions. If they asked me more often to babysit I would say yes, but they don't. They are very respectful, we have a very friendly relationship. They ask me about my day and I ask about theirs, we exchange brief stories.

Just thought I would throw out some of the details to give one example. Everyone seems to be under the impression if you are making over a certain amount or working for certain types of families that your job suddenly becomes horrible and you are working 24/7.

Your job seems more like that of a governess than a nanny.

What does that mean? Isn't that just a nanny in the UK?

No, a governess is a certified teacher. Someone who can homeschool as well as "nanny" for children from the ages of birth thru grammar school. Very wealth children in the past never attended grammar schools - they had governesses until they were old enough to go to boarding school.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there actually, in real life, nannies making $50/hr like in that other thread? Is that possible? What makes them worth that? I've seen threads about getting from $20/hr to $30, but $50 and above is such a huge jump..... I'm confused.

You need to know the rate, number of hours a week, and the time of the hours (night nanny?), to get a better picture. And city, and parents professions, travel, etc.

Since this seems to have stemmed from my post in the other thread, I am the person that posted about making $51.75 an hour this year. I work for a family in DC, both parents work, neither are "famous." Their house is nice but not an enormous mansion. I only worry about the kids and don't to chores. I try to wash dishes (most of them) as the kids are eating but sometimes I don't get to them. Occasionally I will finish them up before I leave after the parents relieve me but many times I will leave dirty dishes in the sink, it's never been an issue. I have only ever wiped down the kitchen counter after cooking and water spots after bath time, that is the extent of any cleaning I have ever done. The family has a cleaner that comes in every Wednesday for half a day to do a deep clean and tidy up. My charges eat solid food so I cook all our meals from scratch with fresh, whole food from the fridge stocked by the parents.

I teach the kids, I have many years of experience educating pre-K children. I engage them, I spark their curiosity. I am teaching them a third language (another European language, they speak English and a second European language). I work 8am to 4:30pm. Parents have never been late unannounced. Occasionally DB has arrived home at the correct time but asked me if I had the time to stay for 15-60 minutes so he can jump on a call, which I have always not had a problem with. There have only been 2 times in the last year they have asked me to babysit, I know they have used another person to babysit on other occasions. If they asked me more often to babysit I would say yes, but they don't. They are very respectful, we have a very friendly relationship. They ask me about my day and I ask about theirs, we exchange brief stories.

Just thought I would throw out some of the details to give one example. Everyone seems to be under the impression if you are making over a certain amount or working for certain types of families that your job suddenly becomes horrible and you are working 24/7.

Your job seems more like that of a governess than a nanny.

What does that mean? Isn't that just a nanny in the UK?

No, a governess is a certified teacher. Someone who can homeschool as well as "nanny" for children from the ages of birth thru grammar school. Very wealth children in the past never attended grammar schools - they had governesses until they were old enough to go to boarding school.

So is that deserving of $40, $50. $60+/hr? I see nannies on here claiming they have masters in education and they are fighting for $17/hr jobs. What gives?

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Anonymous wrote:Are there actually, in real life, nannies making $50/hr like in that other thread? Is that possible? What makes them worth that? I've seen threads about getting from $20/hr to $30, but $50 and above is such a huge jump..... I'm confused.

You need to know the rate, number of hours a week, and the time of the hours (night nanny?), to get a better picture. And city, and parents professions, travel, etc.

Since this seems to have stemmed from my post in the other thread, I am the person that posted about making $51.75 an hour this year. I work for a family in DC, both parents work, neither are "famous." Their house is nice but not an enormous mansion. I only worry about the kids and don't to chores. I try to wash dishes (most of them) as the kids are eating but sometimes I don't get to them. Occasionally I will finish them up before I leave after the parents relieve me but many times I will leave dirty dishes in the sink, it's never been an issue. I have only ever wiped down the kitchen counter after cooking and water spots after bath time, that is the extent of any cleaning I have ever done. The family has a cleaner that comes in every Wednesday for half a day to do a deep clean and tidy up. My charges eat solid food so I cook all our meals from scratch with fresh, whole food from the fridge stocked by the parents.

I teach the kids, I have many years of experience educating pre-K children. I engage them, I spark their curiosity. I am teaching them a third language (another European language, they speak English and a second European language). I work 8am to 4:30pm. Parents have never been late unannounced. Occasionally DB has arrived home at the correct time but asked me if I had the time to stay for 15-60 minutes so he can jump on a call, which I have always not had a problem with. There have only been 2 times in the last year they have asked me to babysit, I know they have used another person to babysit on other occasions. If they asked me more often to babysit I would say yes, but they don't. They are very respectful, we have a very friendly relationship. They ask me about my day and I ask about theirs, we exchange brief stories.

Just thought I would throw out some of the details to give one example. Everyone seems to be under the impression if you are making over a certain amount or working for certain types of families that your job suddenly becomes horrible and you are working 24/7.

Your job seems more like that of a governess than a nanny.

What does that mean? Isn't that just a nanny in the UK?

No, a governess is a certified teacher. Someone who can homeschool as well as "nanny" for children from the ages of birth thru grammar school. Very wealth children in the past never attended grammar schools - they had governesses until they were old enough to go to boarding school.

So is that deserving of $40, $50. $60+/hr? I see nannies on here claiming they have masters in education and they are fighting for $17/hr jobs. What gives?

They are fighting for NANNY jobs, not governess jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there actually, in real life, nannies making $50/hr like in that other thread? Is that possible? What makes them worth that? I've seen threads about getting from $20/hr to $30, but $50 and above is such a huge jump..... I'm confused.

You need to know the rate, number of hours a week, and the time of the hours (night nanny?), to get a better picture. And city, and parents professions, travel, etc.

Since this seems to have stemmed from my post in the other thread, I am the person that posted about making $51.75 an hour this year. I work for a family in DC, both parents work, neither are "famous." Their house is nice but not an enormous mansion. I only worry about the kids and don't to chores. I try to wash dishes (most of them) as the kids are eating but sometimes I don't get to them. Occasionally I will finish them up before I leave after the parents relieve me but many times I will leave dirty dishes in the sink, it's never been an issue. I have only ever wiped down the kitchen counter after cooking and water spots after bath time, that is the extent of any cleaning I have ever done. The family has a cleaner that comes in every Wednesday for half a day to do a deep clean and tidy up. My charges eat solid food so I cook all our meals from scratch with fresh, whole food from the fridge stocked by the parents.

I teach the kids, I have many years of experience educating pre-K children. I engage them, I spark their curiosity. I am teaching them a third language (another European language, they speak English and a second European language). I work 8am to 4:30pm. Parents have never been late unannounced. Occasionally DB has arrived home at the correct time but asked me if I had the time to stay for 15-60 minutes so he can jump on a call, which I have always not had a problem with. There have only been 2 times in the last year they have asked me to babysit, I know they have used another person to babysit on other occasions. If they asked me more often to babysit I would say yes, but they don't. They are very respectful, we have a very friendly relationship. They ask me about my day and I ask about theirs, we exchange brief stories.

Just thought I would throw out some of the details to give one example. Everyone seems to be under the impression if you are making over a certain amount or working for certain types of families that your job suddenly becomes horrible and you are working 24/7.

Your job seems more like that of a governess than a nanny.

What does that mean? Isn't that just a nanny in the UK?

No, a governess is a certified teacher. Someone who can homeschool as well as "nanny" for children from the ages of birth thru grammar school. Very wealth children in the past never attended grammar schools - they had governesses until they were old enough to go to boarding school.

So is that deserving of $40, $50. $60+/hr? I see nannies on here claiming they have masters in education and they are fighting for $17/hr jobs. What gives?

They are fighting for NANNY jobs, not governess jobs.

Why does a nanny with a masters degree in education deserve $17/hr?

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Anonymous wrote:Are there actually, in real life, nannies making $50/hr like in that other thread? Is that possible? What makes them worth that? I've seen threads about getting from $20/hr to $30, but $50 and above is such a huge jump..... I'm confused.

You need to know the rate, number of hours a week, and the time of the hours (night nanny?), to get a better picture. And city, and parents professions, travel, etc.

Since this seems to have stemmed from my post in the other thread, I am the person that posted about making $51.75 an hour this year. I work for a family in DC, both parents work, neither are "famous." Their house is nice but not an enormous mansion. I only worry about the kids and don't to chores. I try to wash dishes (most of them) as the kids are eating but sometimes I don't get to them. Occasionally I will finish them up before I leave after the parents relieve me but many times I will leave dirty dishes in the sink, it's never been an issue. I have only ever wiped down the kitchen counter after cooking and water spots after bath time, that is the extent of any cleaning I have ever done. The family has a cleaner that comes in every Wednesday for half a day to do a deep clean and tidy up. My charges eat solid food so I cook all our meals from scratch with fresh, whole food from the fridge stocked by the parents.

I teach the kids, I have many years of experience educating pre-K children. I engage them, I spark their curiosity. I am teaching them a third language (another European language, they speak English and a second European language). I work 8am to 4:30pm. Parents have never been late unannounced. Occasionally DB has arrived home at the correct time but asked me if I had the time to stay for 15-60 minutes so he can jump on a call, which I have always not had a problem with. There have only been 2 times in the last year they have asked me to babysit, I know they have used another person to babysit on other occasions. If they asked me more often to babysit I would say yes, but they don't. They are very respectful, we have a very friendly relationship. They ask me about my day and I ask about theirs, we exchange brief stories.

Just thought I would throw out some of the details to give one example. Everyone seems to be under the impression if you are making over a certain amount or working for certain types of families that your job suddenly becomes horrible and you are working 24/7.

Your job seems more like that of a governess than a nanny.

What does that mean? Isn't that just a nanny in the UK?

No, a governess is a certified teacher. Someone who can homeschool as well as "nanny" for children from the ages of birth thru grammar school. Very wealth children in the past never attended grammar schools - they had governesses until they were old enough to go to boarding school.

So is that deserving of $40, $50. $60+/hr? I see nannies on here claiming they have masters in education and they are fighting for $17/hr jobs. What gives?

They aren't going through agencies and aren't homeschooling the young children. A governess is like a private tutor for children who don;t go to school at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there actually, in real life, nannies making $50/hr like in that other thread? Is that possible? What makes them worth that? I've seen threads about getting from $20/hr to $30, but $50 and above is such a huge jump..... I'm confused.

You need to know the rate, number of hours a week, and the time of the hours (night nanny?), to get a better picture. And city, and parents professions, travel, etc.

Since this seems to have stemmed from my post in the other thread, I am the person that posted about making $51.75 an hour this year. I work for a family in DC, both parents work, neither are "famous." Their house is nice but not an enormous mansion. I only worry about the kids and don't to chores. I try to wash dishes (most of them) as the kids are eating but sometimes I don't get to them. Occasionally I will finish them up before I leave after the parents relieve me but many times I will leave dirty dishes in the sink, it's never been an issue. I have only ever wiped down the kitchen counter after cooking and water spots after bath time, that is the extent of any cleaning I have ever done. The family has a cleaner that comes in every Wednesday for half a day to do a deep clean and tidy up. My charges eat solid food so I cook all our meals from scratch with fresh, whole food from the fridge stocked by the parents.

I teach the kids, I have many years of experience educating pre-K children. I engage them, I spark their curiosity. I am teaching them a third language (another European language, they speak English and a second European language). I work 8am to 4:30pm. Parents have never been late unannounced. Occasionally DB has arrived home at the correct time but asked me if I had the time to stay for 15-60 minutes so he can jump on a call, which I have always not had a problem with. There have only been 2 times in the last year they have asked me to babysit, I know they have used another person to babysit on other occasions. If they asked me more often to babysit I would say yes, but they don't. They are very respectful, we have a very friendly relationship. They ask me about my day and I ask about theirs, we exchange brief stories.

Just thought I would throw out some of the details to give one example. Everyone seems to be under the impression if you are making over a certain amount or working for certain types of families that your job suddenly becomes horrible and you are working 24/7.

Your job seems more like that of a governess than a nanny.

What does that mean? Isn't that just a nanny in the UK?

No, a governess is a certified teacher. Someone who can homeschool as well as "nanny" for children from the ages of birth thru grammar school. Very wealth children in the past never attended grammar schools - they had governesses until they were old enough to go to boarding school.

So is that deserving of $40, $50. $60+/hr? I see nannies on here claiming they have masters in education and they are fighting for $17/hr jobs. What gives?

They are fighting for NANNY jobs, not governess jobs.

Why does a nanny with a masters degree in education deserve $17/hr?

Because she knows more - much more - about how to teach a child than you do (or any parent without a masters in education of early childhood development).

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Anonymous wrote:Are there actually, in real life, nannies making $50/hr like in that other thread? Is that possible? What makes them worth that? I've seen threads about getting from $20/hr to $30, but $50 and above is such a huge jump..... I'm confused.

You need to know the rate, number of hours a week, and the time of the hours (night nanny?), to get a better picture. And city, and parents professions, travel, etc.

Since this seems to have stemmed from my post in the other thread, I am the person that posted about making $51.75 an hour this year. I work for a family in DC, both parents work, neither are "famous." Their house is nice but not an enormous mansion. I only worry about the kids and don't to chores. I try to wash dishes (most of them) as the kids are eating but sometimes I don't get to them. Occasionally I will finish them up before I leave after the parents relieve me but many times I will leave dirty dishes in the sink, it's never been an issue. I have only ever wiped down the kitchen counter after cooking and water spots after bath time, that is the extent of any cleaning I have ever done. The family has a cleaner that comes in every Wednesday for half a day to do a deep clean and tidy up. My charges eat solid food so I cook all our meals from scratch with fresh, whole food from the fridge stocked by the parents.

I teach the kids, I have many years of experience educating pre-K children. I engage them, I spark their curiosity. I am teaching them a third language (another European language, they speak English and a second European language). I work 8am to 4:30pm. Parents have never been late unannounced. Occasionally DB has arrived home at the correct time but asked me if I had the time to stay for 15-60 minutes so he can jump on a call, which I have always not had a problem with. There have only been 2 times in the last year they have asked me to babysit, I know they have used another person to babysit on other occasions. If they asked me more often to babysit I would say yes, but they don't. They are very respectful, we have a very friendly relationship. They ask me about my day and I ask about theirs, we exchange brief stories.

Just thought I would throw out some of the details to give one example. Everyone seems to be under the impression if you are making over a certain amount or working for certain types of families that your job suddenly becomes horrible and you are working 24/7.

Your job seems more like that of a governess than a nanny.

What does that mean? Isn't that just a nanny in the UK?

No, a governess is a certified teacher. Someone who can homeschool as well as "nanny" for children from the ages of birth thru grammar school. Very wealth children in the past never attended grammar schools - they had governesses until they were old enough to go to boarding school.

So is that deserving of $40, $50. $60+/hr? I see nannies on here claiming they have masters in education and they are fighting for $17/hr jobs. What gives?

No one with a master's degree in education in DC is fighting for any $17 an hour job -- unless they are some online "graduate".

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Anonymous wrote:Are there actually, in real life, nannies making $50/hr like in that other thread? Is that possible? What makes them worth that? I've seen threads about getting from $20/hr to $30, but $50 and above is such a huge jump..... I'm confused.

You need to know the rate, number of hours a week, and the time of the hours (night nanny?), to get a better picture. And city, and parents professions, travel, etc.

Since this seems to have stemmed from my post in the other thread, I am the person that posted about making $51.75 an hour this year. I work for a family in DC, both parents work, neither are "famous." Their house is nice but not an enormous mansion. I only worry about the kids and don't to chores. I try to wash dishes (most of them) as the kids are eating but sometimes I don't get to them. Occasionally I will finish them up before I leave after the parents relieve me but many times I will leave dirty dishes in the sink, it's never been an issue. I have only ever wiped down the kitchen counter after cooking and water spots after bath time, that is the extent of any cleaning I have ever done. The family has a cleaner that comes in every Wednesday for half a day to do a deep clean and tidy up. My charges eat solid food so I cook all our meals from scratch with fresh, whole food from the fridge stocked by the parents.

I teach the kids, I have many years of experience educating pre-K children. I engage them, I spark their curiosity. I am teaching them a third language (another European language, they speak English and a second European language). I work 8am to 4:30pm. Parents have never been late unannounced. Occasionally DB has arrived home at the correct time but asked me if I had the time to stay for 15-60 minutes so he can jump on a call, which I have always not had a problem with. There have only been 2 times in the last year they have asked me to babysit, I know they have used another person to babysit on other occasions. If they asked me more often to babysit I would say yes, but they don't. They are very respectful, we have a very friendly relationship. They ask me about my day and I ask about theirs, we exchange brief stories.

Just thought I would throw out some of the details to give one example. Everyone seems to be under the impression if you are making over a certain amount or working for certain types of families that your job suddenly becomes horrible and you are working 24/7.

Your job seems more like that of a governess than a nanny.

What does that mean? Isn't that just a nanny in the UK?

No, a governess is a certified teacher. Someone who can homeschool as well as "nanny" for children from the ages of birth thru grammar school. Very wealth children in the past never attended grammar schools - they had governesses until they were old enough to go to boarding school.

So is that deserving of $40, $50. $60+/hr? I see nannies on here claiming they have masters in education and they are fighting for $17/hr jobs. What gives?

They are fighting for NANNY jobs, not governess jobs.

Why does a nanny with a masters degree in education deserve $17/hr?

Because she knows more - much more - about how to teach a child than you do (or any parent without a masters in education of early childhood development).

$17/hr isn't a good salary for a masters degree. I was saying they should be earning more. New nannies who didn't go to college are getting $20/hr in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there actually, in real life, nannies making $50/hr like in that other thread? Is that possible? What makes them worth that? I've seen threads about getting from $20/hr to $30, but $50 and above is such a huge jump..... I'm confused.

You need to know the rate, number of hours a week, and the time of the hours (night nanny?), to get a better picture. And city, and parents professions, travel, etc.

Since this seems to have stemmed from my post in the other thread, I am the person that posted about making $51.75 an hour this year. I work for a family in DC, both parents work, neither are "famous." Their house is nice but not an enormous mansion. I only worry about the kids and don't to chores. I try to wash dishes (most of them) as the kids are eating but sometimes I don't get to them. Occasionally I will finish them up before I leave after the parents relieve me but many times I will leave dirty dishes in the sink, it's never been an issue. I have only ever wiped down the kitchen counter after cooking and water spots after bath time, that is the extent of any cleaning I have ever done. The family has a cleaner that comes in every Wednesday for half a day to do a deep clean and tidy up. My charges eat solid food so I cook all our meals from scratch with fresh, whole food from the fridge stocked by the parents.

I teach the kids, I have many years of experience educating pre-K children. I engage them, I spark their curiosity. I am teaching them a third language (another European language, they speak English and a second European language). I work 8am to 4:30pm. Parents have never been late unannounced. Occasionally DB has arrived home at the correct time but asked me if I had the time to stay for 15-60 minutes so he can jump on a call, which I have always not had a problem with. There have only been 2 times in the last year they have asked me to babysit, I know they have used another person to babysit on other occasions. If they asked me more often to babysit I would say yes, but they don't. They are very respectful, we have a very friendly relationship. They ask me about my day and I ask about theirs, we exchange brief stories.

Just thought I would throw out some of the details to give one example. Everyone seems to be under the impression if you are making over a certain amount or working for certain types of families that your job suddenly becomes horrible and you are working 24/7.

Your job seems more like that of a governess than a nanny.

What does that mean? Isn't that just a nanny in the UK?

No, a governess is a certified teacher. Someone who can homeschool as well as "nanny" for children from the ages of birth thru grammar school. Very wealth children in the past never attended grammar schools - they had governesses until they were old enough to go to boarding school.

So is that deserving of $40, $50. $60+/hr? I see nannies on here claiming they have masters in education and they are fighting for $17/hr jobs. What gives?

They aren't going through agencies and aren't homeschooling the young children. A governess is like a private tutor for children who don;t go to school at all.

So all these nannies with master's or teaching degrees, why don't they go the governess route? $15 < $50

[Anonymous]

Because there are a lot more degreed nannies than families who need a $50/hr governesses full-time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I think for $50 an hour, you're expected to have perfect English grammar, and a college degree. Be able to tutor children in their homework Be able to assist children with their music lessons, maybe with their language classes, etc. Be absolutely discrete and sign a binding confidentiality agreement. Be up on the latest childcare trends, know what the Kazdin method is and how to apply it, etc., etc.
I think NY is the place to find those jobs. The young woman trailing behind Suri Cruise in all the pictures? That is probably her.

I would expect her to have educational background in child development and speak eloquently and professionally. Plus not any college degree. It would matter to me she went to at least in the top third tier. Someone who could get $50 at a desk job but chose to be a nanny.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there actually, in real life, nannies making $50/hr like in that other thread? Is that possible? What makes them worth that? I've seen threads about getting from $20/hr to $30, but $50 and above is such a huge jump..... I'm confused.

Why are you confused, OP? Doesn't your field of professionals have a few at the top who earn much higher than average?