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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi! I hope I help with your questions!  [b]Typically a rate hourly is around $15. Since you are offering a full time position at 40 hours a week, you can go with a weekly rate. This is based on what you can afford, and what is average in your area. In my area, a live out nanny full time can expect to make anywhere from $300-500 a week. You will want to offer an overtime rate for anything over 40 hours.[/b] I have never been offered health insurance but you will have a happy employee if you did.  If your child is contagious you can leave it up to the nanny to decide what she is willing to expose herself to. Typically with just minor illnesses expect nanny to be there. For vacation, I get two weeks and 3 sick days paid. I can go over but it becomes unpaid at that point. You can do different and go by what you have at your work. I drive to all activities. I use my car and get paid $.56 per mile and other times use family car with them paying for gas with a charge card. Provide just food in your house, it is my job to prepare meals for the child and if asked also sometimes prep meals for the parents too. As for extra job duties, I help with laundry for child, dishes, and cleanup of anything involving child. It is no problem for me while child is napping to help out with light chores but anything more, I begin to feel like a house slave. I have been asked to clean toilets, wash dogs, vacuum,etc and that was horrible. It sounds like you are very nice and will be fair with your new employee. To protect yourself, I'd go legal route with taxes and documented worker. With your hours offered, taxed, insurance possibly offered and paid vacation, I think you will have no trouble finding a great fit for your family! I'm tempted to send you my resume even! Good luck to you![/quote]

Okay this is all wrong. You can not go with a weekly rate, a nanny is an hourly employee. Also the rate is not based on what you can afford!! It's based on what the nanny charges, and the rates where you live. You state a good rate is $15/hour which is $600/week for 40 hours - not the $300-$500 you suggested. And you have to pay overtime for over 40 hours, it's the law. I really wish nannies would learn all of these basics, because you make all of us look bad.[/quote]

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