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[quote=Anonymous]My hourly rates are the same for live-in and live-out. Either way, I still need to maintain my own residence since most employers have only a modest bedroom and maybe a small closet, to offer.

It would typically be a young woman just moving out of her parents' home, or a college dorm, who could live out of a suitcase in such limited quarters. I happen to be past that stage of my life.

A few nanny employers have large estates with separate living accommodations. In my experience, that's really the only way for employers to have to best of both worlds, retaining the nanny "on site", and offering the nanny enough space and distance, to consider the arrangement to be
a mutually acceptable longterm commitment.

I have had one family offer me a separate condominium unit in their highrise building, as part of my compensation package. For me, only under such circumstances can I consider any possible reduction of my regular fees. Most of these wealthy employers, however, would simply assume comfortable living space to be a job requirement for a professional "live-in" nanny, who is already well-accustomed to her creature comforts. Not every nanny comes from a poor or middle class family, nor does she need to settle for low wages.

If I agree to a live-in position, the significant sacrifice of not having any personal living space (besides a small bedroom), is fair grounds for a higher salary, not lower.

Of course our hired and/or elected government policy makers see it differently, regardless if a "live-in" nanny has to (or "chooses" to) maintain her own separate residence, in order to have more personal space than she'd be allotted in a jail cell. Perhaps our policy makers enjoy the low cost of a live-in nanny.[/quote]

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