Reply to Guidance on nanny salary and benefits

Forum Index » Employer Issues

Reply to "Guidance on nanny salary and benefits"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Hi, First time on this forum, apologies - I do not know the acronyms.

I have employed the same wonderful nanny for 6 years in NYC and will be giving her up and moving to DC in the summer.  I would love some help in working out how best to determine salary and how to advertise for the position. In NY an high proportion of nannies work off the books and only a small % of nannies we interviewed understood what we wanted by paying on the books and what that meant regarding taxes and social etc. The nannies we interviewed discussed comp solely in terms of their take home pay rather than a gross amount.  I am interested in guidance on what appropriate salary should be for the following position and how should I present the salary (as the gross number or what the take home will be)?

Caring for two children - 6 (in school full time) and 3 (preschool 5 x half days) and general light housekeeping/errand help while the kids are in school. Some school pick up and drop offs, taking kids to activities.  Both schools in short walking distance. home is very close parks, zoo, shops, DC Metro. There will be some days with both kids during school vacations etc. We typically advertise for 2 weeks paid vacation, one week of our choice, one week of theirs but in reality I have over 4 weeks and we have always paid while we are on vacation and we always give our nanny a week extra of their own time to choose so usually works out to be 5.5 weeks paid vacation time.  We have always paid sick days (unlimited) and been flexible with personal days. We pay for food of the nanny's choice to be in our home for their lunch. We have paid for local NY subway travel - what was needed to get around the city to pick up the kids and take them to activities (typically nannies in Manhattan do not drive). I would love to know what is normal for travel, what to expect on that front in DC. Our hours are around 50-55 per week. Are there any other benefits that are typical in the DC market?

Thanks in advance for any guidance on the above and any tips you can share. THANK YOU.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics