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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just found a nanny to take care of my DD who is 4 months old. She is open to doing a nanny share for a higher salary. How does a nanny share work? I would prefer the share being in my house (thats why I hired a nanny in the first place). Are people open to that or do people usually alternate or split houses? Also if the share is in our house would it make sense for us to split her salary evenly or would one of the families in the share pay more? We would be prepared to babysit after the nanny is gone for half an hour to an hour while waiting for the other family to pick their child up. Also our nanny said she is willing to do some light housework for us. Again how would this work with splitting her salary? Also would the family that is hosting the share (us in this case) be responsible for paying/preparing the food for the children? Thanks![/quote]
I can share my experience. The way nanny shares work is two families agree to act as joint employers for the nanny.  You can agree on one family always hosting (easier, in my opinion) or split hosting. It's up to you. Generally the families pick one location and the nanny will see that location as her primary place of work.  In our case, the other family hosted and we split the nanny's salary 50/50.   If the nanny is willing to do light housework, she would do it at the host's house - in my case, it never occurred to me to pay less because housework made the house a more pleasant and clean place to be.  If she's doing baby laundry, you can ask to throw in the non-hosting baby laundry and give it back to the non-hosting family at the end of the day.  We always sent our own food because every family is different in what they want the baby to eat so it's easier not to mix. [/quote]

Thanks this is really useful.  I was thinking of a 70/30 split since its in our house but your reasoning makes a lot of sense too.

To the pp who said that its unfair that we are not giving her a choice of holidays, we had asked her and she said it doesn't make a difference to her. I think though that if we were going to do a nanny share it would make more sense to give her a choice as it would be easier.[/quote]

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