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[quote=Anonymous]New to the forum, but I've searched around and couldn't really find relevant discussion.

Live in DC. I have a incredibly nice 2 BR garage apartment (850 SF, separate entrance, lots of windows looking over back yard in a leafy neighborhood) that I've been renting out for $2500/month here in DC. We are about to have a child and would prefer a live in Nanny situation, both as a convenience to ourselves but also as a perk to the Nanny. We were looking for 50 hours a week, weekends off, no house chores (cooking, cleaning etc) involved. We are of course offering 3 weeks of PTO and health insurance.

Now granted, we just started our search and only interviewed two prospective nannies who are looking for a live in situation, but both were still demanding anywhere from $18-20/hr on top of the free apartment and that just seems pretty high to me considering we are covering her largest life expense and giving her a separate roof valued at $2,500 a month. Spread over the 50 hours we are wanting, that "perk" as I see it is already worth about $50 an hour (or costing me $50 an hour to give it to a Nanny). All in the free apt, the hourly pay, vacation and etc would total out to about ~$80/hr.

Yeah, yeah...think of the kids. I get it, you don't want some unqualified hack taking care of your kids, but for an all in cost of ~$80 an hour, I would think I could get Mary Poppins...magic umbrella and all.

Is this what the DC market demands? Is this truly what a good nanny costs or am I getting the "NW DC" price quote? [/quote]

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