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[quote=Anonymous]Hi All,

We employ a wonderful Nanny/Housekeeper who has been with us for about 9 months. We pay her $21 an hour before taxes for a 40 hour work week + time and a half for overtime.  She has all holidays, 2 weeks vacation of her choosing and the week between Christmas and New Years off with pay and we pay her health insurance premium and her cell phone.  We moved here from NYC about a year ago and are still getting used to the difference in pay for nanny's (NYC it is typical to pay in cash, here, above the table) we paid almost 1/3rd less in NYC for a nanny as compared to what we pay here.  Not complaining, the market is the market, just context for everyone.  We have 1 child and our nanny is responsible for housekeeping while he is in school.

A couple of items:

1) Her birthday is next week - she has the day off and we're getting her some flowers. Since it's close to the holiday and we're doing a bonus for her, should we do a present instead of cash?  I would normally do a $100 amex card.  See below for what i was thinking on the bonus.

2) For a bonus we were thinking of 1 week salary is that appropriate? In NYC we did 2 weeks salary, but again, we paid less in NYC and it was standard to give a bigger bonus at the end of the year.

3) We're expecting our 2nd child (our 1st is 5) we haven't told her yet but I am sure she knows as I spent 2 months at home puking in the morning.  I was planning on giving her a COLA increase of 3% for the coming year now, should I tell her when I give her the raise that we expect that she'll get an additional increase when the 2nd baby arrives?

Thanks!

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