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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have  3 soon to be  4 children ages 3, 2, 1 , and newborn.
The nanny we want is a former preschool teacher with  3 years nanny experience including newborns.
She is college educated, but degree is not in education.
No special skill such as second language.
She has said she only does kid laundry and tidying after kids during day.
We  would like her 4 days a week from 8 to 7.  
No weekends
All standard benefits.
We were thinking $20 to $24 an hour. Reasonable?[/quote]

I think your rate is reasonable, but your list here suggests that your expectations maybe somewhat unreasonable (I have a 4.5, 3, 1.5, soon to be newborn, so slightly more spread out, but I hear where you're coming from). Even suggesting a different nanny might do more than kid laundry and tidying as a possibility seems kind of crazy with the ages you describe there, especially since the baby won't have the same nap schedule. We actually hired a second person as a mother's helper 15 hours a week for help with more of the housework/shopping/dishes/laundry-type stuff.

Second, that is 55 hours a week with four very little kids. That's A LOT. I would worry some about nanny burnout, and consider two nannies, one full time and one part time. If you can afford it, maybe even overlap them by an hour a day to make time for the tidying and such. Since you're on the hook for 15 hours of overtime at time and a half anyway, the marginal cost wouldn't be that much more.[/quote]

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