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[quote=Anonymous]Somewhat to defense of first time parents who hire through care.com : the site actually provides to you the "average hourly wage in your area". In Burke, VA it said something like $12.50/hr. . Since I hired nannies before, I knew that was too low, and offered rate much higher than that and have been happy with my nanny. However, had I not frequent DCUM, hired/fired nannies for like 8 years now, and had about 5 friends who are MBs, I would never know that.

So, if you are first time parent, and you are just hiring for the first time, why wouldn't you go with the care.com number? I frequently read care.com blogs and advice, and I can't remember reading anywhere there that said a share should be paid more, more kids you should pay more, etc... Just to set a budget, post it, and use the useless average rate... My work provides me these "guides to life", and we had one about hiring a nanny there. Again no mention that nanny's wage should increase with complexity of her job.

Instead of being offended, maybe you should write to parents to say, hey, interesting position, but my rate is $X, so for these hours I'd like to be paid $Y per month, here are my qualifications. How else would the parents know that they are low balling the rate... And no, people don't do math "how would a person live in this area on $31k per year"...

Or write to care.com to mention these things in their guides.

I have no comment on the ad for a homeless person. That's not explainable ;)[/quote]

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