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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, this is how our nanny share is/was. It's not uncommon in our area for a family to start with a 1:1 nanny at three months and go to a share later, but of course your nanny must be on board with that at hire. Ours involved two separate contracts--one covered first four months, with nanny taking care of baby 1:1 for most of day and helping with family's older child for two set hours per day. One child rate for baby hours, two child share rate for older child hours, all spelled out. When we joined, there was a new contract to spell out share setup. Two child rate for all hours--same two hours with older child and then our time filled the balance of the day. Had they found a share family who needed FT, agreement was no more older child care.

The maternity leave part is a bit messy, but I like the retainer solution. We did start PT in our share for a short period because of work schedule, and I guess that more or less amounted to the same thing, though we had set hours--other family paid one child hours less the hours we needed at the one child rate, and then half of the two child rate for the hours we needed. It got simpler when we went to full-time and all hours were at the same rate, just paid by different people depending on time, though. Main key to making it work is writing it all down and being sure everyone agrees. (The other family in our share also proposed this all at the interview stage since they wanted solo care but knew they wanted to transition to share care, too.)[/quote]

OP here - thanks for chiming in.  So as far as the older child rate vs. the baby rate, the only reason that I was thinking to do a blended rate for the whole day was to make the overtime calculation make sense.  So instead of saying for example, we would pay you $17/hour for 7 hours, then $20/hour for 2 hours, and then trying to calculate the overtime hour based on one of those base rates, we would say (since the hours for the older child would be fixed), we would pay you $17.67/hour, that includes 2 hours of watching older child, and the overtime hour would be paid at $26.50.  Maybe this isn't the right way of doing this.

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You are making things way too freaking complicated. Your nanny would have to be a rocket scientist to follow all of your mathematical acrobatics. Pay a rate for the job you are offering (care for baby, pick up older kid) and be done. $17.50/hour. Bam. Calculate the OT based on that rate. Easy. Now walk away from the calculator. [/quote]

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