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[quote=Anonymous]We have a PT nanny who started working for us in January of this year.  We par her $17 an hour for 2 kids, have given 2 weeks paid vacation (plus paid days off here and there--federal holidays if they fall on one of her work days, and days when we haven't needed her due to visiting relatives, etc), plus recently gave her an additional paid week off since she went pretty much the full year without taking a sick day.  We like her very much and feel like she does a great job with the kids.  In general, I feel like this is a pretty good package--but am wondering what to do about the holiday bonus and also about a one-year raise.  We will definitely give her a bonus of some kind but I have real questions about whether or not we can afford 1-2 weeks pay--we were thinking more in the range of $100-200.  Also, I think we could afford to give her a raise to $17.50 but I have no idea if we'll be able to give her a raise every year and I hope that she'll work for us for a long time to come--at least a couple more years.  
I'm wondering--
1. Does a personal, thoughtful gift carry any weight or would we be better off giving her as large a bonus as we can afford?
2. Is it expected that we offer a raise after one year?  Is a 3% adjustment considered fair and/or does it match up with the going rate?
We do have a contract which doesn't address raises or bonuses, but since it's coming up on a year we will be sitting down to look over her contract pretty soon.
Thanks for any guidance![/quote]

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