Nanny Prices!

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Anonymous wrote:Having a good, educated nanny was important to DH and me even though he had started a PhD program and I was earning about 150k a year. We used our savings to pay for our nanny for those three years. By the time my DD started preschool and aftercare, she was leap years ahead of her classmates thanks to our nanny as well as being a very happy and secure little kid. Gratefully, our nanny has stayed in my DD’s life and is a beloved family friend.

So, yes - it can be done only if you have substantial savings and make it a priority.

This was us. We had nannies for about 8 years. It put a big dent in our savings, but it was so worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We make $600k/yr and still choose an au pair over nanny. Not only are they expensive, they are in fact full grown adults with their own lives. My au pairs are flexible and truly at my beckon call.

It’s beck and call. Guess money doesn’t buy literacy.

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington/550k/$20 an hour base/50 hours/1 baby

All in w taxes and benefits it’s close to 70k a year I think? So yeah, wouldn’t be doing this if we made significantly less.

Arlington at the moment; Our income is around 400k.

Its amazing how much your spending on a Nanny; I guess having a nanny is really a pure luxury (like a sports car).

Do you not think an experienced nanny should be making a minimum of $20/hr?

Truthfully no. They are blue-collar workers with very little college education. When I graduated from Law school, i didn't even make as much as some of these nannies do. Its surprising and sad. I guess if you can find someone willing to pay you the amount some of these nannies are asking for then.... good for them.

I’m puzzled by how many parents claim their children are the most precious things in their world, but then don’t want to pay someone a good wage to secure excellent care. Guess you don’t really value your children’s care and safety. You could probably get some dude off the street to look after them for 20 bucks a day. What does it matter, it’s simple work that obviously a moron could do, amirite?

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Anonymous wrote:Having a good, educated nanny was important to DH and me even though he had started a PhD program and I was earning about 150k a year. We used our savings to pay for our nanny for those three years. By the time my DD started preschool and aftercare, she was leap years ahead of her classmates thanks to our nanny as well as being a very happy and secure little kid. Gratefully, our nanny has stayed in my DD’s life and is a beloved family friend.

So, yes - it can be done only if you have substantial savings and make it a priority.

This was us. We had nannies for about 8 years. It put a big dent in our savings, but it was so worth it.

Same! I was still in school and DH wasn’t making more than 150 a year. We used our savings and my bonus from the service to pay for a wonderful nanny who was a former preschool teacher. DS started preK so far ahead of his peers and was so independent and ready for school thanks to our nanny. She found and took advantage of every free story time, concert, dance recital, puppet show and playgroup she could find. Plus she read to him all the time and always engaged him in appropriate play.

The first years truly are the most important. 80% of all brain synapses are created for his entire life. I just couldn’t see him with a cheaper nanny who treated him like a sack of potatoes or having chaos and lots of caregivers in a daycare.

[Anonymous]

This statement is pure nonsense. People that believe the AMOUNT you pay equals service are falling into a slippery slope trap. This fear is echoed in many professions including the legal field, where lawyers (like myself) have to increase my 'hourly rate' to prove that I am good enough or better than someone else. Truthfully it works well for us, my pockets are more full.... and it works for nannies as well

Here are the facts for many of the non-informed parents

1. Nanny care is expensive, regardless of the fact they are just over-paid babysitters. The proof is in the pudding. When we had a babysitter we gave her a list of actions to do with the baby when we were gone, including but not limited to:
A. Story Time
B. Engaging Activities and Reading Books
C. Monitoring their Internet Usage and etc
D. Food to cook or prepare for the baby

2. This site has more nannies that post than parents, and due to that the rates and the opinions are very skewed. It's ok, everyone needs to make a living, but setting artificial standards or skewed numbers ultimately leads to 'buyer beware' situation.


3. Many of these nannies asking for more than 15.00 an hour will find themselves out of a job, unless they find someone else gullible enough to pay them.

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington/550k/$20 an hour base/50 hours/1 baby

All in w taxes and benefits it’s close to 70k a year I think? So yeah, wouldn’t be doing this if we made significantly less.

Arlington at the moment; Our income is around 400k.

Its amazing how much your spending on a Nanny; I guess having a nanny is really a pure luxury (like a sports car).

Do you not think an experienced nanny should be making a minimum of $20/hr?

Truthfully no. They are blue-collar workers with very little college education. When I graduated from Law school, i didn't even make as much as some of these nannies do. Its surprising and sad. I guess if you can find someone willing to pay you the amount some of these nannies are asking for then.... good for them.

I’m puzzled by how many parents claim their children are the most precious things in their world, but then don’t want to pay someone a good wage to secure excellent care. Guess you don’t really value your children’s care and safety. You could probably get some dude off the street to look after them for 20 bucks a day. What does it matter, it’s simple work that obviously a moron could do, amirite?

[Anonymous]

Team,

A cheaper nanny isn't going to treat your children WORSE. That is just silly. The fact of the matter is all nannies will, for the most part, follow the schedule and workflow you create for them. Any RESPONSIBLE parent that just doesn't want to hire away their parental duties, will take the time to CREATE a checklist of actions to perform with the baby, and supervise the nanny before placing their kids in their care. I will say this again, just because you PAY more doesn't mean you get better service.

I recommend that parents out there grow a pair, and demand more from the help they get, and argue for better rates. My two cents, we found a wonderful wonderful nanny, and we are paying here a lot less than these money nanny sharks out on this forum

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Anonymous wrote:Having a good, educated nanny was important to DH and me even though he had started a PhD program and I was earning about 150k a year. We used our savings to pay for our nanny for those three years. By the time my DD started preschool and aftercare, she was leap years ahead of her classmates thanks to our nanny as well as being a very happy and secure little kid. Gratefully, our nanny has stayed in my DD’s life and is a beloved family friend.

So, yes - it can be done only if you have substantial savings and make it a priority.

This was us. We had nannies for about 8 years. It put a big dent in our savings, but it was so worth it.

Same! I was still in school and DH wasn’t making more than 150 a year. We used our savings and my bonus from the service to pay for a wonderful nanny who was a former preschool teacher. DS started preK so far ahead of his peers and was so independent and ready for school thanks to our nanny. She found and took advantage of every free story time, concert, dance recital, puppet show and playgroup she could find. Plus she read to him all the time and always engaged him in appropriate play.

The first years truly are the most important. 80% of all brain synapses are created for his entire life. I just couldn’t see him with a cheaper nanny who treated him like a sack of potatoes or having chaos and lots of caregivers in a daycare.

[Anonymous]

The REVOLUTION starts here.

1. Nannies typically can't find other jobs outside of the one they are in. Their skills, or their education is not marketable enough, and thus they choose this field. (USE THIS TO YOUR ADVANTAGE)
2. DON'T believe everything on this forum; The prices they quote for nannies is VERY VERY high. We found one for about 13.50 and she is awesome. My parents even approved!
3. Create a list of activities, and duties to perform in the house, and monitor that. Nannies and babysitters are really the same if you have a fixed plan of activities, and items to perform.

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Anonymous wrote:Having a good, educated nanny was important to DH and me even though he had started a PhD program and I was earning about 150k a year. We used our savings to pay for our nanny for those three years. By the time my DD started preschool and aftercare, she was leap years ahead of her classmates thanks to our nanny as well as being a very happy and secure little kid. Gratefully, our nanny has stayed in my DD’s life and is a beloved family friend.

So, yes - it can be done only if you have substantial savings and make it a priority.

This was us. We had nannies for about 8 years. It put a big dent in our savings, but it was so worth it.

[Anonymous]

Attacking the posters English skills vs refuting the point. I see you chose the prior!

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington/550k/$20 an hour base/50 hours/1 baby

All in w taxes and benefits it’s close to 70k a year I think? So yeah, wouldn’t be doing this if we made significantly less.

Arlington at the moment; Our income is around 400k.

Its amazing how much your spending on a Nanny; I guess having a nanny is really a pure luxury (like a sports car).

Do you not think an experienced nanny should be making a minimum of $20/hr?

Truthfully no. They are blue-collar workers with very little college education. When I graduated from Law school, i didn't even make as much as some of these nannies do. Its surprising and sad. I guess if you can find someone willing to pay you the amount some of these nannies are asking for then.... good for them.

Maybe your job after college wasn't as important as a nanny's job. Dime a dozen people coming out of Law School while good nannies are hard to find. "Graduating law school" doesn't automatically mean you are going to make more than a nanny. Lots of assumptions on you part.

"Graduating law school" means one is graduating the actual law school. People are GRADUATED FROM an academic institution! Take a course in remedial English.

[Anonymous]

Team,

Don't be lazy parents. The actions this pre-k nanny performed can be done with a well-planned parent to nanny checklist.

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Anonymous wrote:Having a good, educated nanny was important to DH and me even though he had started a PhD program and I was earning about 150k a year. We used our savings to pay for our nanny for those three years. By the time my DD started preschool and aftercare, she was leap years ahead of her classmates thanks to our nanny as well as being a very happy and secure little kid. Gratefully, our nanny has stayed in my DD’s life and is a beloved family friend.

So, yes - it can be done only if you have substantial savings and make it a priority.

This was us. We had nannies for about 8 years. It put a big dent in our savings, but it was so worth it.

Same! I was still in school and DH wasn’t making more than 150 a year. We used our savings and my bonus from the service to pay for a wonderful nanny who was a former preschool teacher. DS started preK so far ahead of his peers and was so independent and ready for school thanks to our nanny. She found and took advantage of every free story time, concert, dance recital, puppet show and playgroup she could find. Plus she read to him all the time and always engaged him in appropriate play.

The first years truly are the most important. 80% of all brain synapses are created for his entire life. I just couldn’t see him with a cheaper nanny who treated him like a sack of potatoes or having chaos and lots of caregivers in a daycare.

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[Anonymous]

I don’t know a single nanny willing to accept $13.50/hour. Good luck to you.

I do know a few who currently make $15/hour. They either live in more rural areas or they live in.

I wouldn’t work for you, ever. Your attitude that a nanny is simply an overpriced babysitter would make it so that I ran the other way. It’s the same with the rest of my friends.

Oh, and I know at least 20 nannies who chose this career. Some had previous careers and are nannying later in life. Some went to school specifically for this. Some have experience in other fields that translated into nannying. I tutored, and I’m still capable of tutoring through college courses. I could teach. I choose to nanny.

[Anonymous]

If you think $15 per hour is top dollar, than yes, all the nannies you are interviewing will be babysitter-level. That is fine for some families and some schedules. If you work only 40 hrs per week with a short commute and you are willing to invest the time to research activities and outings and monitor the nanny and supervise constantly, then the odds are good that your kids will turn out fine. You also have no idea what you are missing, but it sounds like you don’t care so that’s fine too. Only a small percentage of families are really able and willing to pay for and participate in the full nanny experience but most kids will turn out fine in any child care situation, including a decent daycare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The REVOLUTION starts here.

1. Nannies typically can't find other jobs outside of the one they are in. Their skills, or their education is not marketable enough, and thus they choose this field. (USE THIS TO YOUR ADVANTAGE)
2. DON'T believe everything on this forum; The prices they quote for nannies is VERY VERY high. We found one for about 13.50 and she is awesome. My parents even approved!
3. Create a list of activities, and duties to perform in the house, and monitor that. Nannies and babysitters are really the same if you have a fixed plan of activities, and items to perform.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Having a good, educated nanny was important to DH and me even though he had started a PhD program and I was earning about 150k a year. We used our savings to pay for our nanny for those three years. By the time my DD started preschool and aftercare, she was leap years ahead of her classmates thanks to our nanny as well as being a very happy and secure little kid. Gratefully, our nanny has stayed in my DD’s life and is a beloved family friend.

So, yes - it can be done only if you have substantial savings and make it a priority.

This was us. We had nannies for about 8 years. It put a big dent in our savings, but it was so worth it.

Who pissed in your cornflakes?! Your diatribes and mistakes in posting are a bit pathetic, PP. Calm down and learn to understand that other mothers/employers do not agree with you or your ridiculous assessments.

[Anonymous]

Even $15/hr is more than OP really wanted to/could afford to pay. That was the point of this thread: nanny care is expensive, and if you can only afford the cheapest version of it, you may not even be happy. You might be, but it's still going to cost you $35-$40K/yr all told, even at $15/hr.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know a single nanny willing to accept $13.50/hour. Good luck to you.

I do know a few who currently make $15/hour. They either live in more rural areas or they live in.

I wouldn’t work for you, ever. Your attitude that a nanny is simply an overpriced babysitter would make it so that I ran the other way. It’s the same with the rest of my friends.

Oh, and I know at least 20 nannies who chose this career. Some had previous careers and are nannying later in life. Some went to school specifically for this. Some have experience in other fields that translated into nannying. I tutored, and I’m still capable of tutoring through college courses. I could teach. I choose to nanny.

Congratulations; Your ability to tutor and teach advanced college level classes comes in handy when trying to sing "I am a little tea-pot" or helping with 4th - 10th-grade homework. The reason you chose this job is probably because it made more financial sense than anything. As long as you have parents that believe the more money they shell out the better 'help' they get, you will always be employed. Ride that fear, we do as Lawyers as well. Just realize we are no different....

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know a single nanny willing to accept $13.50/hour. Good luck to you.

I do know a few who currently make $15/hour. They either live in more rural areas or they live in.

I wouldn’t work for you, ever. Your attitude that a nanny is simply an overpriced babysitter would make it so that I ran the other way. It’s the same with the rest of my friends.

Oh, and I know at least 20 nannies who chose this career. Some had previous careers and are nannying later in life. Some went to school specifically for this. Some have experience in other fields that translated into nannying. I tutored, and I’m still capable of tutoring through college courses. I could teach. I choose to nanny.

Congratulations; Your ability to tutor and teach advanced college level classes comes in handy when trying to sing "I am a little tea-pot" or helping with 4th - 10th-grade homework. The reason you chose this job is probably because it made more financial sense than anything. As long as you have parents that believe the more money they shell out the better 'help' they get, you will always be employed. Ride that fear, we do as Lawyers as well. Just realize we are no different....

You do you, PP. Good luck to your poor children. I want the best for my children which includes a nanny who engages and teaches. I want more than a warm body to watch my kids. I wouldn’t hire an uneducated nanny anymore than I would send them to school to be taught by a high school drop out.