Christmas Bonus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone employed by my MB - myself, the housekeeper and the weekend nanny - get two weeks pay.

+ 1. Where I work, each of the three children has their own nanny (along with two housekeepers and a chef) and everyone gets two weeks pay. Job performance has nothing to do with it. Even the lazier nanny gets the same as the other nanny and me.

Each child? Chef? Wowza. Talk about a different world than I live in!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone employed by my MB - myself, the housekeeper and the weekend nanny - get two weeks pay.

+ 1. Where I work, each of the three children has their own nanny (along with two housekeepers and a chef) and everyone gets two weeks pay. Job performance has nothing to do with it. Even the lazier nanny gets the same as the other nanny and me.

Each child? Chef? Wowza. Talk about a different world than I live in!

Each child also has a weekend nanny. But no chef on the weekends - those poor nannies have to reheat the food the chef make for them on Friday themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You'll get "one week pay" from everyone here OP.

I'm an MB and I've never known any other employer to actually pay that much.

We typically give anywhere from $200-500 in cash as a holiday bonus. The $200 went to a nanny who had just started with us in October, and the $500 went to a nanny who had been with us for 3 years.

We do it under the table. So, for some nannies perhaps $500 is the equivalent of a week's NET pay, but that isn't the measure we use for the decision.

You do what you can, if performance merits a bonus and you are able to give one. As an employee I think a raise matters more than the size of the bonus so if you're going to budget for anything put more towards an hourly rate increase.

I’m a nanny and last Christmas my family gave me 2 weeks pay, this year 2.5 weeks pay. I’m also the nanny that had my car broken into while on the job so I think the extra this year was because of that.

[Anonymous]

Pp here forgot the amounts. Last year $2000 bonus cash and this year $2500 check.

I gave them a bottle of wine, candle and a book of free babysitting coupons worth up to 5 3 hour increments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pp here forgot the amounts. Last year $2000 bonus cash and this year $2500 check.

I gave them a bottle of wine, candle and a book of free babysitting coupons worth up to 5 3 hour increments.

Wow. I would love this from our nanny, but would feel bad every single time I used them!