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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Right, benefits are included.  Generous vacation and health insurance.

We already have a nanny.  I'm trying to get a sense of whether the rate I am paying is competitive, and when someone recently told me that the rate for one child is $20, I was shocked, so I wanted to get a sense of whether that was the rumor mill or really true.  It will help me benchmark.

College educated, 10 years experience.[/quote]

What are you paying her currently? You don't have to pay $20/hour to be competitive, but less than $18/hour and she has more options/potential better offers. I have a degree and 5 years of full time experience, and I have no problem finding an $18/hour job, $20 is more difficult. [/quote]

We pay comfortably above $20/hour.  To me, the question is whether the additional money is worth the additional work of two kids, driving to activities, etc.  I guess it just depends on what the nanny wants/likes to do.  And if the going rate is really truly $20/hour for one infant, then I would say that I need to reevaluate compensation.[/quote]
If you pay "comfortably above $20/hr", you are at the higher - very much higher end of nanny compensation that usually implies special skills or unique disadvantages to the position (like very few hours or inconvenient hours). Bluntly speaking, you are paying above market.
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The starting salary for an infant, even for an experienced nanny, is not $20/hr, it's closer to $15/hr.  Infant care doesn't really require much from nannies.  You get into needing more from nannies when kids are preschool or elementary age (more of a governess type), but at that point they are usually in preschool or school long enough to make full-time nanny care less than practical.  If you have two children or other complications, that's different.[/quote][/b]

I totally agree with this.  
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