Can someone explain to me how a live-in nanny situation works?

[Anonymous]

$500 a month? Is that not what an au pair gets

[Anonymous]

I'm a live in nanny and I te paid 13$ an hour with an average of 25 hours per week, plus I pay 700$ In rent and all my bills ( car insurance gas cell bill credit card bill and gym membership) p am I being taken for granted??

[Anonymous]

I've never heard of a live in paying rent. Also your rent is more than half of what you are earning in a month, not the best money management.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our live-in nanny is working at very well and she constantly says she is very happy. Our home is fairly large and she lives in the 1800 sq ft basement apartment with its own kitchen, laundry room, and bathroom. I pay for her electricity, water, internet, cable TV, and allow her 16 year old daughter to have her own bedroom with private bathroom on our second floor.

The way our contract is worded is she makes $500 a month. We were paying her $1600 but she would have to then immediately pay her landlord $1300 for her place and pay for all her utilities.

Now, we save money on childcare, she has more money left over after rent and utilities and I even allow her to babysit another child in my home (complete with legal agreement signed by the other parent for legal protection).

Our nanny is awesome and is more like a member of the family than a nanny. She is not restricted to the basement apartment and can use our kitchen and backyard fire-pit/pool anytime she wants.

If she ever said she didn't like the arrangement, I would sit down and see what we could come up with to make everyone happy, but once it becomes considerably cheaper (not just cheaper) to hire outside care, she will lose her job and her place to stay. I would of course allow her several months to relocate and probably help her move both financially and with loading her things.

Some nannies are great people. Some nannies are absolutely useless. The person on here that keeps going on about how terrible live-in arrangement are or how live-in requirements are somehow "discrimination" is obviously not educated enough to know why they are wrong and not someone you want watching your child anyway.

Wait. You were only paying her $1600 and now with the housing it is $500/month? I hope this wasn't for full time, that is really low. $400/week is quite low for live out assuming 40 hours per week or more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:$500 a month? Is that not what an au pair gets

Yea? So what. What is the difference? Is it not the exact same work? Is it morally ok to pay an au pair less?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a live in nanny and I te paid 13$ an hour with an average of 25 hours per week, plus I pay 700$ In rent and all my bills ( car insurance gas cell bill credit card bill and gym membership) p am I being taken for granted??

You shouldn't be paying rent.

[Anonymous]

Live-ins sacrifice way too much too pay a single dime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$500 a month? Is that not what an au pair gets

Yea? So what. What is the difference? Is it not the exact same work? Is it morally ok to pay an au pair less?

Actually AUPAIRS make $800/mo.

For mine I also supply her with a car and food.

The $500/mo poster is reprehensible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$500 a month? Is that not what an au pair gets

Yea? So what. What is the difference? Is it not the exact same work? Is it morally ok to pay an au pair less?

Actually AUPAIRS make $800/mo.

For mine I also supply her with a car and food.

The $500/mo poster is reprehensible.

Actually, monthly salary for a live-in aupair as defined by the US State Department is US $195.75, but thank for playing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$500 a month? Is that not what an au pair gets

Yea? So what. What is the difference? Is it not the exact same work? Is it morally ok to pay an au pair less?

Actually AUPAIRS make $800/mo.

For mine I also supply her with a car and food.

The $500/mo poster is reprehensible.

Actually, monthly salary for a live-in aupair as defined by the US State Department is US $195.75, but thank for playing!

The aupairs make that per week not per month. So yes around 800 per month like pp stated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$500 a month? Is that not what an au pair gets

Yea? So what. What is the difference? Is it not the exact same work? Is it morally ok to pay an au pair less?

Actually AUPAIRS make $800/mo.

For mine I also supply her with a car and food.

The $500/mo poster is reprehensible.

Actually, monthly salary for a live-in aupair as defined by the US State Department is US $195.75, but thank for playing!

Please read more carefully. It's $195.75/week, which they calculate based on minimum wage minus 40%, because they estimate the value of room & board provided to be approx 40% of minimum wage (a little less than $600/month for room & board - about what you could charge a college student to rent out a spare bedroom in your house). OP is planning to offer a full basement apartment, which is more than most APs get in terms of space & amenities but presumably no board, no inclusion in family phone plan, car insurance, etc so it's not really an apples to apples comparison.

OP, you could take the standard nanny rate for your area minus some percentage, ie - $18/hr minus 30% gets you approx $13/hr. Legally, you must provide at least minimum wage to a live-in nanny. Practically speaking, you won't find some one decent for less than $10/hr and that's on the low end - some one with little experience or bad references. Think through things like utilities, benefits (paying for car insurance, phone plan, gym membership, pool membership, etc).

[Anonymous]

What kind of child care do you want, OP?
And can you afford?

[Anonymous]

How can living in a basement with your boss ever be considered a perk?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How can living in a basement with your boss ever be considered a perk?

You don't have to pay rent, utilities, food, etc.

I am going to assume that you still have regular scheduled hours, a car to go out and do things, and more free money than you would have if you lived on your own.

I do think that it only works if it's a financial advantage for both parties involved. NF has to be paying less than they would for a live-out nanny, and nanny has to be netting more money every month than if she was paying for an apartment and utilities on her own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can living in a basement with your boss ever be considered a perk?

You don't have to pay rent, utilities, food, etc.

I am going to assume that you still have regular scheduled hours, a car to go out and do things, and more free money than you would have if you lived on your own.

I do think that it only works if it's a financial advantage for both parties involved. NF has to be paying less than they would for a live-out nanny, and nanny has to be netting more money every month than if she was paying for an apartment and utilities on her own.

Most nannies would be 1000 times happier to rent a room elsewhere.
Believe me.