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[Post New]03/25/2015 14:34
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Anonymous
Expecting my third child and nanny has asked for a raise and COLA (cost of living adjustment). My other two kids will be in school full time for the rest of the school year and all summer with new baby's arrival and I am a SAHM. Nanny does housework and laundry. What percent raise is suitable? TIA for your help!
[Post New]03/25/2015 16:40
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Anonymous
What are the nanny's duties with the children? Will she be doing more work, or the same work?
[Post New]03/25/2015 16:45
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Anonymous
She sounds like a housekeeper. They often get $25. per hour.
[Post New]03/25/2015 17:15
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:She sounds like a housekeeper. They often get $25. per hour.


This.
I'm confused the children are in school.
You will be home with the baby.
Doing laundry and housecleaning is not a nanny that's a housekeeper. They typically make a minimum of $25 an hour.

More details of the job may help.
[Post New]03/25/2015 17:44
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Anonymous
They can pay less for a "nanny" to clean the house. Nice.
[Post New]03/25/2015 18:41
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Anonymous
If she's your house cleaner and your babysitter, I'd give 25. an hour. Two jobs for the price of one.
[Post New]03/25/2015 19:28
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:She sounds like a housekeeper. They often get $25. per hour.

For 4-8 hrs a week.

oP, it sounds like your budget is infinite so clearly you should pay your nanny whatever she demands.

Many families add duties and errands once the kids are in school, and we all know the infant sleep and stay home schedule. After 4-5 years of same nanny you just match the percentage raise you got, 3-4%.

If the nanny wants to price herself it of the market then let her. You can do au pair, or find some one for the one child price and flex up to two wchild price for after school hours, no school days, etc.

It's a rare unicorn nanny to get $25/hr for 30-50 hours of work.
[Post New]03/25/2015 19:38
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:She sounds like a housekeeper. They often get $25. per hour.

For 4-8 hrs a week.

oP, it sounds like your budget is infinite so clearly you should pay your nanny whatever she demands.

Many families add duties and errands once the kids are in school, and we all know the infant sleep and stay home schedule. After 4-5 years of same nanny you just match the percentage raise you got, 3-4%.

If the nanny wants to price herself it of the market then let her. You can do au pair, or find some one for the one child price and flex up to two wchild price for after school hours, no school days, etc.

It's a rare unicorn nanny to get $25/hr for 30-50 hours of work.

Good example of a shameful cheapskate.
[Post New]03/25/2015 21:02
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Anonymous
You don't have a nanny, OP, you have a housekeeper who occasionally babysits for you.
[Post New]03/26/2015 00:35
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:She sounds like a housekeeper. They often get $25. per hour.

For 4-8 hrs a week.

oP, it sounds like your budget is infinite so clearly you should pay your nanny whatever she demands.

Many families add duties and errands once the kids are in school, and we all know the infant sleep and stay home schedule. After 4-5 years of same nanny you just match the percentage raise you got, 3-4%.

If the nanny wants to price herself it of the market then let her. You can do au pair, or find some one for the one child price and flex up to two wchild price for after school hours, no school days, etc.

It's a rare unicorn nanny to get $25/hr for 30-50 hours of work.


This is simply not true depending on where you live. I live in the Bay area and $25/hr is a very common rate here for full time jobs.
[Post New]03/26/2015 08:38
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:She sounds like a housekeeper. They often get $25. per hour.


This.
I'm confused the children are in school.
You will be home with the baby.
Doing laundry and housecleaning is not a nanny that's a housekeeper. They typically make a minimum of $25 an hour.

More details of the job may help.


If they come in once a week they may get $25 for the day, but as a daily full-time gig I would pay more like $10 hourly or $80 a day for house care and occasional help with the kids.
[Post New]03/26/2015 08:49
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:She sounds like a housekeeper. They often get $25. per hour.


This.
I'm confused the children are in school.
You will be home with the baby.
Doing laundry and housecleaning is not a nanny that's a housekeeper. They typically make a minimum of $25 an hour.

More details of the job may help.


If they come in once a week they may get $25 for the day, but as a daily full-time gig I would pay more like $10 hourly or $80 a day for house care and occasional help with the kids.

Few illegals would accept that. You're dreaming.
[Post New]03/26/2015 08:57
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:She sounds like a housekeeper. They often get $25. per hour.


This.
I'm confused the children are in school.
You will be home with the baby.
Doing laundry and housecleaning is not a nanny that's a housekeeper. They typically make a minimum of $25 an hour.

More details of the job may help.


If they come in once a week they may get $25 for the day, but as a daily full-time gig I would pay more like $10 hourly or $80 a day for house care and occasional help with the kids.


This is what I pay too. I live in a small blue-collar town where most people work factory jobs for minimum wage. $10 is a couple of dollars above minimum wage, and the environment in my home is nice, the work hours are flexible and guaranteed, and I offer a reasonable number of sick days and vacation days. I literally had almost 100 people respond to a newspaper ad that ran for 3 days for this job.

Obviously, from reading this, that is not what people pay in DC, but just like $25/hr is reasonable in some areas, $10/hr is reasonable in others.
[Post New]03/26/2015 16:17
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nannydebsays

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Anonymous wrote:Expecting my third child and nanny has asked for a raise and COLA (cost of living adjustment). My other two kids will be in school full time for the rest of the school year and all summer with new baby's arrival and I am a SAHM. Nanny does housework and laundry. What percent raise is suitable? TIA for your help!


OP, how long has nanny worked for you?

Has she had previous raises?

Is she full time (40+ hours/week) or part time?

Does she take care of the kids independently, or does she need to be given instruction and direction daily? IOW, do you leave her to do her job, or does she HAVE to be managed?

How much of her current time is spent as a housekeeper vs time as a "nanny"? How will that change when baby is born?
[Post New]03/26/2015 19:48
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Anonymous
clearly some dcum nannies want to do no housekeeping or helping of managing the house so they will just float from pre-school age families to pre-school age families and not grow with the same particular family beyond that.

many, many others, however, do grow with the family and their hours, job scope, responsibilities change year over year. because the kids and family are growing.
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