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[quote=nannydebsays][quote=Anonymous]"But if she wants to keep her nanny, she'll need to do something to make the job appealing despite the LACK of future significant raises. "

really????  There are tons of FT jobs paying $21/hr for kids who are at a more self-sufficient age?  hmm! encouraging news for job seeking nannies!  I'll admit there are some, but i would think OP's nanny would be hard pressed to replicate her situation if OP is offering her FT hrs.[/quote]

Oooo, sarcasm! So you'd be OK with never getting another raise at all in your job if your responsibilities were slightly reduced, even though generally COL continues to increase?

All OP needs to do to make the job appealing is to offer 1 or 2 "free days" when the kids are in school (IOW, nanny is free to do her own thing for 6 hours, as long as she is "on-call" in case of sudden illness). Nannies who work 50+ hours a week have to use PTO to go see their doctor or dentist. A job without raises but WITH free time one day a week when the kids are in school would be fantastic!

One of my nanny friends has worked for the same family for 12+ years. She stopped getting raises when both kids were in full day school. She started getting a few hours "on call" during the school year, which gradually increased over the years. Her employers actually crunched the numbers when the "free time" started, and found that thanks to school vacations, teacher workdays, school holidays, and summer break, my friend initially got 4 "free hours" a week on average as an exchange for no raise. Nice, but not exactly 20 hours a week free every single week.[/quote]

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