Newborn Baby rates are $20-30/hr + PLUS your older children if you have some.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sure some do, but they are outliers. Full-time baby nurses are a province of truly wealthy people. They are a minority among nanny employers and it's a very small market. Among the middle-class nanny employers, baby nurses are brought in - if at all - for a few weeks very early on, and that's about it.

This kind of flexible schedule works wonders for some professional caregivers.

It is, but the thing is, baby nurses aren't really nannies. They are a kind of a quasi-medical group of people who help the mom get settled with the newborn baby and show her the basics of infant care. So sure, baby nurses are great for a few weeks. I just don't think of them as nannies. They are a different breed.

I know several baby nurses who also do nanny work, probably the same way you may know some "nannies" who will clean your house.

I'm sure they do, but I am also sure they don't do it at baby nurse rate.

There is one thing we can be sure of. They get a compensation package that suits them.

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Anonymous wrote:Very few nannies make over $20/hr. They are not at all significant to area market rates. They only post here to brag or to lie to parents and make them think their rate is the average.

Ignore them.

Seeing how insignificant you are, I'll ignore you.

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately for nannies, there are few special skills parents want to pay extra for.

You may be right. Hence the abundance of dissatisfied parents.

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Anonymous wrote:I'll bite: link to ONE example in the parents forum where a "MB" is claiming that's acceptable pay.

You searched already and found nothing?

You don't understand how this works. You make a claim, you back it up. You can't just run around saying whatever you feel like and its fact until someone proves you wrong. That's not how the world works. Another hint; nannies don't make $30/hour (unless they work very few hours, like 1 or 2). If you make that much, you're probably doing much more than nannying.

Which thread was it that had the FT nanny earning $52/hr? No one said, repeat: no one said that every nanny qualifies to be "high-earning". You have your average, you have your low-earning newbie nannies (or the warm-body type), and you have the relatively few (rightfully so) high-earning nannies. After all, if they "all" earned 25-30, they wouldn't be "high-earning", would now?

Some nannies DO earn 25-30/hr. Remember, at least one nanny earns $52/hr.? So please stop with your asinine stupidity that "nannies don't make 30/hr., unless they work 1 or 2 hours". The ONLY thing you DO know is what YOU may pay a nanny. And that may be HALF as much (or less) as what SOME other nannies are earning.

And yes, high-income earning nannies indeed do much more than what most of you commonly envision for a "nanny". It may even be that they don't actually "do" more, depending on your understanding "doing". For instance, the best nannies do NOT engage in "multitasking". Because these nannies are not expected to "keep busy", as you call it, they are well-informed AND understand the overwhelming research, that multitasking is definately not something to aspire to. (You may google the word.) So, in just that one example, the professional nanny may be "doing" less, in your eyes. However, if our most acclaimed researchers in this field, come to observe such a nanny, they would most certainly recognize her uncommon ability to teach her charges in a developmentally appropriate fashion. And no, she's not going to try to make a bright 2 or 3 year old child, read. She knows better.

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Anonymous wrote:You are not fooling anyone. I've never met a nanny making $30/hour. Nice try though!! Your lucky if you get $20/hour but even that's pushing it!

I just found this thread, so not one of the PPs but I just wanted to add that I make $35/hr.

I think the problem here is "nanny" doesn't mean the same thing to everyone. When I think "nanny" I think full-time career but it seems the general consensus on DCUM is that nanny can be anything from a 'more than just occasional' babysitter to a 50 hour a week live-in with a professionals salary. Just like some people are willing to go to college, get good grades and then still take a an office job or a lab tech job that pays $11/hr, the same thing happens with nannies. If a family is only willing to pay X amount, they will probably find someone, if they advertise long enough, that will do the job for that pay. On the other hand there are people that will only accept a position that pays $25, $30, or $35 an hour and by the same logic, if they have the skills of course to justify it, they will likely find a family willing to pay that amount if they wait long enough.

Anyways, just wanted to add my opinion. Carry on.

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There are lots of parents who pay their nannies much more than what we typically hear about on this forum. But of course they earn more, so they obviously are too busy between their careers and their parenting, to have much time to waste here.

Makes perfect sense.

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Hi I'm an nanny for many years ,but now my situation change,my baby daughter is born and I falling in love with her.
I wondering if I can stay home and taking care of her and find another baby, this is the question;I need to take license for that?
Please answer only if you really know ,this subject is very important to me,thanks I appreciate that.

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nannies, stop giving your hours away. I am a mother with two children and I have a great nanny for almost 2 years now. She is like the second mother of my kids, and that's what nannies are supposed to be when their are in charge of our little ones. I appreciate her kindness, love and care and we all love her. I was going to paid her 25/hr, but then my husband and my mom told me that what she does for the family is priceless so we decide to pay her $30/hr with all federal holidays paid, etc....

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Lord, you could pay that amount per hour, but many of us pay far less - in my case $18 per hour - and have care that we are very satisfied with.

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Anonymous wrote:nannies, stop giving your hours away. I am a mother with two children and I have a great nanny for almost 2 years now. She is like the second mother of my kids, and that's what nannies are supposed to be when their are in charge of our little ones. I appreciate her kindness, love and care and we all love her. I was going to paid her 25/hr, but then my husband and my mom told me that what she does for the family is priceless so we decide to pay her $30/hr with all federal holidays paid, etc....

I'm sorry but I don't believe you.

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Anonymous wrote:nannies, stop giving your hours away. I am a mother with two children and I have a great nanny for almost 2 years now. She is like the second mother of my kids, and that's what nannies are supposed to be when their are in charge of our little ones. I appreciate her kindness, love and care and we all love her. I was going to paid her 25/hr, but then my husband and my mom told me that what she does for the family is priceless so we decide to pay her $30/hr with all federal holidays paid, etc....

I'm sorry but I don't believe you.

Yep, me either.

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Anonymous wrote:nannies, stop giving your hours away. I am a mother with two children and I have a great nanny for almost 2 years now. She is like the second mother of my kids, and that's what nannies are supposed to be when their are in charge of our little ones. I appreciate her kindness, love and care and we all love her. I was going to paid her 25/hr, but then my husband and my mom told me that what she does for the family is priceless so we decide to pay her $30/hr with all federal holidays paid, etc....

I'm sorry but I don't believe you.

Who cares? Her child is getting amazing care and that's most important to many parents.

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nannies, stop giving your hours away. I am a mother with two children and I have a great nanny for almost 2 years now. She is like the second mother of my kids, and that's what nannies are supposed to be when their are in charge of our little ones. I appreciate her kindness, love and care and we all love her. I was going to paid her 25/hr, but then my husband and my mom told me that what she does for the family is priceless so we decide to pay her $30/hr with all federal holidays paid, etc....


I'm sorry but I don't believe you.


Yep, me either.

Me three. This post has nanny troll written all over it.

For a nanny to be worth more than $20/hr for two children, she would have to provide extra services. Cook, clean, bring something else to the table.

The fact is there are many wonderful nannies working for market rates and if you want to earn more, you need to bring more.

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nannies, stop giving your hours away. I am a mother with two children and I have a great nanny for almost 2 years now. She is like the second mother of my kids, and that's what nannies are supposed to be when their are in charge of our little ones. I appreciate her kindness, love and care and we all love her. I was going to paid her 25/hr, but then my husband and my mom told me that what she does for the family is priceless so we decide to pay her $30/hr with all federal holidays paid, etc....


I'm sorry but I don't believe you.


Yep, me either.

Me three. This post has nanny troll written all over it.

For a nanny to be worth more than $20/hr for two children, she would have to provide extra services. Cook, clean, bring something else to the table.

The fact is there are many wonderful nannies working for market rates and if you want to earn more, you need to bring more.

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Professional nannies do not do your housekeeping. People who can afford them, have housekeepers to clean the house.