Smart Sitters in NYC are earning $60/hr on New Year's Eve

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Anonymous wrote:Nannies- don't short sell yourself.
I'm a Corporate WOHM. I would only work NYE night if my company paid me triple time- and even then I would still think about it.

Nannies- don't be too timid to ask for $50+/hr. Parents can afford it if they really really want to go out (Personally, we have a families party at home with all the kids)

If parents really don't want to pay $50+, they will have to scramble around to find a cheap 14-15yo high school kid.

The fact a 14-15 year old High school kid can perform the job of many nannies is really what I find so funny.

You may speak for your own low expectations. That's all.

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Anonymous wrote:Only a dumb nanny would charge her regular rate on NYE.

I earn $28 an hour regularly and feel that one of perks of having a nanny is availability at the same rate on NYE.

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Yeahhhhhh NO. I'm earning $50/hr babysitting for 8hrs. My regular family asked me to babysit ($30/hr regular rate) and I said no.

You are a good example of a smart nanny.

I disagree. A truly smart nanny is loyal to her employers and charges. I don't find nickle and diming employers to be particularly "smart".

Ummmm excuse me but NYE is a holiday and I don't work holidays st my regular job so if I want to sit home and twiddle my thumbs all night and not work my regular job I can do that! Unlike you perhaps, my boss doesn't command me to work weekends or holidays, she asks and I am free to say no. I said no because I already accepted a $50/hr babysitting job. Sorry you're jealous.

Sweet!

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Anonymous wrote:I may have responded to this thread last year and my feelings are the same. When you are a highly paid nanny, you do not jack up your rates on your employers for NYE. It is just wrong.

Don't be a sucker. This is also the time of year your bosses get their $20,000-$200,000 bonuses. They can afford to pay you $500 for the night, trust me.

My employers can afford to pay me much more than that - they are quite wealthy. It just doesn’t right.

It seems to me you should do it for free in your unusual situation, just as a small token of appreciation. -DP

You think it is unusual for wealthy people to have nannies?! Wealthy parents all have nannies!

NP here and I work for an extremely wealthy and high profile family (along with three other nannies) and our hourly rates are set in contract negotiation. There are no special rates for NYE.

Same in my nanny position. This would never be tolerated. My rates are set by my agency at contract negotiation.

FYI, it's illegal for the agency to determine your rates, unless the agency is your employer (not the parents). Who pays you? The agency or the parents?

I set my rates and the agency sends me out only to employers willing to pay them. I would not, and legally could not, change my rate for NYE.

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Anonymous wrote:I may have responded to this thread last year and my feelings are the same. When you are a highly paid nanny, you do not jack up your rates on your employers for NYE. It is just wrong.

Don't be a sucker. This is also the time of year your bosses get their $20,000-$200,000 bonuses. They can afford to pay you $500 for the night, trust me.

My employers can afford to pay me much more than that - they are quite wealthy. It just doesn’t right.

It seems to me you should do it for free in your unusual situation, just as a small token of appreciation. -DP

You think it is unusual for wealthy people to have nannies?! Wealthy parents all have nannies!

NP here and I work for an extremely wealthy and high profile family (along with three other nannies) and our hourly rates are set in contract negotiation. There are no special rates for NYE.

Same in my nanny position. This would never be tolerated. My rates are set by my agency at contract negotiation.

FYI, it's illegal for the agency to determine your rates, unless the agency is your employer (not the parents). Who pays you? The agency or the parents?

I set my rates and the agency sends me out only to employers willing to pay them. I would not, and legally could not, change my rate for NYE.

My agency lets parents know that holidays have holiday rates.

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Anonymous wrote:I may have responded to this thread last year and my feelings are the same. When you are a highly paid nanny, you do not jack up your rates on your employers for NYE. It is just wrong.

Don't be a sucker. This is also the time of year your bosses get their $20,000-$200,000 bonuses. They can afford to pay you $500 for the night, trust me.

My employers can afford to pay me much more than that - they are quite wealthy. It just doesn’t right.

It seems to me you should do it for free in your unusual situation, just as a small token of appreciation. -DP

You think it is unusual for wealthy people to have nannies?! Wealthy parents all have nannies!

NP here and I work for an extremely wealthy and high profile family (along with three other nannies) and our hourly rates are set in contract negotiation. There are no special rates for NYE.

Same in my nanny position. This would never be tolerated. My rates are set by my agency at contract negotiation.

FYI, it's illegal for the agency to determine your rates, unless the agency is your employer (not the parents). Who pays you? The agency or the parents?

I set my rates and the agency sends me out only to employers willing to pay them. I would not, and legally could not, change my rate for NYE.

My agency lets parents know that holidays have holiday rates.

That is surprising. What agency are you with?

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Anonymous wrote:I may have responded to this thread last year and my feelings are the same. When you are a highly paid nanny, you do not jack up your rates on your employers for NYE. It is just wrong.

Don't be a sucker. This is also the time of year your bosses get their $20,000-$200,000 bonuses. They can afford to pay you $500 for the night, trust me.

My employers can afford to pay me much more than that - they are quite wealthy. It just doesn’t right.

It seems to me you should do it for free in your unusual situation, just as a small token of appreciation. -DP

You think it is unusual for wealthy people to have nannies?! Wealthy parents all have nannies!

NP here and I work for an extremely wealthy and high profile family (along with three other nannies) and our hourly rates are set in contract negotiation. There are no special rates for NYE.

Same in my nanny position. This would never be tolerated. My rates are set by my agency at contract negotiation.

FYI, it's illegal for the agency to determine your rates, unless the agency is your employer (not the parents). Who pays you? The agency or the parents?

I set my rates and the agency sends me out only to employers willing to pay them. I would not, and legally could not, change my rate for NYE.

My agency lets parents know that holidays have holiday rates.

That is surprising. What agency are you with?

+2. What agency?

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Anonymous wrote:I may have responded to this thread last year and my feelings are the same. When you are a highly paid nanny, you do not jack up your rates on your employers for NYE. It is just wrong.

Don't be a sucker. This is also the time of year your bosses get their $20,000-$200,000 bonuses. They can afford to pay you $500 for the night, trust me.

My employers can afford to pay me much more than that - they are quite wealthy. It just doesn’t right.

It seems to me you should do it for free in your unusual situation, just as a small token of appreciation. -DP

You think it is unusual for wealthy people to have nannies?! Wealthy parents all have nannies!

NP here and I work for an extremely wealthy and high profile family (along with three other nannies) and our hourly rates are set in contract negotiation. There are no special rates for NYE.

Same in my nanny position. This would never be tolerated. My rates are set by my agency at contract negotiation.

FYI, it's illegal for the agency to determine your rates, unless the agency is your employer (not the parents). Who pays you? The agency or the parents?

I set my rates and the agency sends me out only to employers willing to pay them. I would not, and legally could not, change my rate for NYE.

My agency lets parents know that holidays have holiday rates.

That is surprising. What agency are you with?

+2. What agency?

PP made it up. There is no agency that would help you negotiate a separate NYE rate!! Holidays are time and a half and sometimes double time.

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Anonymous wrote:I may have responded to this thread last year and my feelings are the same. When you are a highly paid nanny, you do not jack up your rates on your employers for NYE. It is just wrong.

Don't be a sucker. This is also the time of year your bosses get their $20,000-$200,000 bonuses. They can afford to pay you $500 for the night, trust me.

My employers can afford to pay me much more than that - they are quite wealthy. It just doesn’t right.

It seems to me you should do it for free in your unusual situation, just as a small token of appreciation. -DP

You think it is unusual for wealthy people to have nannies?! Wealthy parents all have nannies!

NP here and I work for an extremely wealthy and high profile family (along with three other nannies) and our hourly rates are set in contract negotiation. There are no special rates for NYE.

Same in my nanny position. This would never be tolerated. My rates are set by my agency at contract negotiation.

FYI, it's illegal for the agency to determine your rates, unless the agency is your employer (not the parents). Who pays you? The agency or the parents?

I set my rates and the agency sends me out only to employers willing to pay them. I would not, and legally could not, change my rate for NYE.

My agency lets parents know that holidays have holiday rates.

That is surprising. What agency are you with?

+2. What agency?

PP made it up. There is no agency that would help you negotiate a separate NYE rate!! Holidays are time and a half and sometimes double time.

Hence the separate holiday rate. Duh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Holiday childcare always costs more.

This is to be expected. Best case scenario is sitter gets paid while she stays awake until parents get home, and can then crash in a guest bedroom until morning. Too many drinkers on the road that late on NYE.

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Anonymous wrote:I may have responded to this thread last year and my feelings are the same. When you are a highly paid nanny, you do not jack up your rates on your employers for NYE. It is just wrong.

Don't be a sucker. This is also the time of year your bosses get their $20,000-$200,000 bonuses. They can afford to pay you $500 for the night, trust me.

My employers can afford to pay me much more than that - they are quite wealthy. It just doesn’t right.

It seems to me you should do it for free in your unusual situation, just as a small token of appreciation. -DP

You think it is unusual for wealthy people to have nannies?! Wealthy parents all have nannies!

NP here and I work for an extremely wealthy and high profile family (along with three other nannies) and our hourly rates are set in contract negotiation. There are no special rates for NYE.

Same in my nanny position. This would never be tolerated. My rates are set by my agency at contract negotiation.

FYI, it's illegal for the agency to determine your rates, unless the agency is your employer (not the parents). Who pays you? The agency or the parents?

I set my rates and the agency sends me out only to employers willing to pay them. I would not, and legally could not, change my rate for NYE.

My agency lets parents know that holidays have holiday rates.

I guess if you’re just a sitter, sure, they could easily say that all the sitters have holiday rates much higher than normal, but they have plenty available. That’s a babysitter, not a nanny.

[Anonymous]

This thread is supposed to be about sitting on NYE.
That's it.

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Anonymous wrote:I may have responded to this thread last year and my feelings are the same. When you are a highly paid nanny, you do not jack up your rates on your employers for NYE. It is just wrong.

Don't be a sucker. This is also the time of year your bosses get their $20,000-$200,000 bonuses. They can afford to pay you $500 for the night, trust me.

My employers can afford to pay me much more than that - they are quite wealthy. It just doesn’t right.

It seems to me you should do it for free in your unusual situation, just as a small token of appreciation. -DP

You think it is unusual for wealthy people to have nannies?! Wealthy parents all have nannies!

NP here and I work for an extremely wealthy and high profile family (along with three other nannies) and our hourly rates are set in contract negotiation. There are no special rates for NYE.

Same in my nanny position. This would never be tolerated. My rates are set by my agency at contract negotiation.

FYI, it's illegal for the agency to determine your rates, unless the agency is your employer (not the parents). Who pays you? The agency or the parents?

Someone should tell the White House Nanny agency about that.

[Anonymous]

I don’t babysit for my regular family on NYE. It’s a holiday so I’m off- paid. I also have guaranteed hours and never work 40/week over the holidays. So basically I’d be working NYE for free. Instead I babysit for hotels and make $40-50/hr.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t babysit for my regular family on NYE. It’s a holiday so I’m off- paid. I also have guaranteed hours and never work 40/week over the holidays. So basically I’d be working NYE for free. Instead I babysit for hotels and make $40-50/hr.

You go, girl! That’s the way to do it. $40-50/hr minimum on the busiest babysitting holiday of the year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Heard this report today on wtop. DC area caregivers should be equally as savvy, don't you think?

It depends on the situation. If it's a family who knows the sitter, they are more likely to pay a higher rate because they trust the person. If they have 3+ kids, they're likely to pay more, though not necessarily that much. I know a few parents who are planning on having 2-3 families of kids sleeping in the same house, and the sitter will be responsible for up to 8 kids. The shorter the night, the higher the hourly rate is likely to be. But there are tons of parents who aren't planning on paying a penny more than they normally pay.

Then they will be spending NYE at.home taking care of their kids!