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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nannies are hourly employees so a salary is out of question. Both families need to file taxes separately to avoid tax fraud. Besides any experienced nanny will refuse the share rate on one child days because you just can't afford normal nanny rate. Find someone to do the a share one day a week. The only reason shares are beneficial to nannies in the first place is because they receive a higher rate than they would a single family with two kids. You skimping out already on a less then full time position isn't going to attract many qualified candidates.[/quote]

First of all, you do not know anything about or finance.  Why would I pay the nanny the same rate to watch one kid as I would to watch 2 kids?  Also, I am not skimping out- I am off one day per week and DH is off one day per week- our need is only for 3 days per week.

If they nanny wants to know the breakdown I will say "$22 per hour on days when you have 2, $18 per hour on the day you have one" or whatever we decide on for the rate.[/quote]

The last part is what you need to do. You can advertise it both ways ("total pay is $xx for an xx-hour week") but legally you need to track and calculate it by the hour, so you will have a set one-child and two-child rates (and should you go into overtime, that comes into play too). You will need to do this anyway to keep track of which family owes how much, though (in your example, if you had three eight-hour days at $22/hr for two and $18 for one, you need to know that your share is $11/hr for the two days with both kids and $18/hr for the day with just your child, for instance, because you will need to report that independently of the other family reporting what they are paying).

In our share, the one-child rate is $17/hour and it's $22 for two kids.[/quote]

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