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[quote=Anonymous]I live in NYC, and I have a fantastic nanny who works from 7am-8pm She has been with us for just over a year. With my fairly new job, I have to spend many nights out entertaining clients until late evening, around midnight sometimes later. My nanny has been a great sport and has stayed overnight on these nights. I pay her $100 extra when she does. But, many times I need her to stay late is usually on short notice. She is so super tired, and I want to keep her happy, so I don't want her to do overnights anymore. And I'm tired, so I can't be woken up at night by my 3 year old twins.

I don't want a 24hr nanny, because that seems like abusive and cruel, and I want to keep my current nanny. So I want to hire someone to just spend the nights from 8pm-7am M-F. Basically monitor watch (sleeping of course) and get up on the occasion my LO's wake up. I know paying a person to come in will cost more than $150 a night. What do you think is fair? I pay my nanny $25 an hour + overtime on the books. But I think that is too much for just sleeping. I was thinking around $950 a week. This works out to $15 an hour + overtime. I do most of the time come home early to play then to put my kids to sleep, then head out, so the night nanny could just hang out. I will also provide breakfast and dinner for night nanny.

Do you think this would entice someone enough to sleep away from their home during the week? And to those who want to yell at me for having kids, keep in mind I am a widower of 2 years. And I DO see my kids plenty! I am there every breakfast, and I take them to school. I pick them up from school most days, and spend an hour or so with them before nap time. I have no other family in or around the city to help me. [/quote]

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