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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because if you charge $15/hour per child the market of people who can employ nannies will shrink to next to nothing.  You will price an entire profession out of work.[/quote]

WRONG. NO one on DCUM has ever proposed paying nannies $15/hr per child for multiple children in the same family.

There was, however, a pediatrician who recommended increasing the nanny's hourly pay rate by $5/hr for the addition of newborn care. (This of course assumes the nanny has the required skills.)

I agree with the pediatrician, as $2/hr is simply not acceptable, considering the necessary skill and responsibility for a newborn baby.

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The typical model for this scenario is that a family hires a nanny when they have a newborn.  Nanny stays with the family for some period of time, and the family has a second child.

The existing nanny is not needing additional skills for newborn care - he/she came in with those skills and has refined them to the employer family's needs.  So an additional child is an additional amount of work, but not new or unknown work.

Assuming nanny and family are happy with each other, all parties want to continue the working relationship.  It is usually easier and happier for everyone to retain their employment/employee than to suffer the stress of starting over, with all sorts of unknowns.

Employing family increases compensation to account for additional work.  Employee decides what compensation will or will not be acceptable to her.

Most families will not offer or be able to afford a 33% raise ($5/hr on a $15/hr position as an example).  Very few people ever see that kind of raise in an existing job, regardless of profession.

One can opine on anonymous boards for hours every day and that doesn't change the pragmatic decisions people will make about affordability, employment, total value (many factors beyond simple hourly rate) of a position, etc...  And what seems a reasonable increase for one person may be unacceptable to another.

That's all fine.  This is a highly individualized profession where hard and fast rules really don't apply in the real world.

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