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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just saw someone on my neighborhood listserv looking for a live-in nanny to whom she'd pay $200-$300/week for full-time employment, two kids. She said she'd never had trouble finding someone to fill this role before but that now she was.

I think that is outrageously low and probably illegal. Am I wrong?[/quote]

I saw someone advertising 9-11/hour, but when I talked to her, she wants to pay $200-250 for 40-50 hours.  Yes, it's illegal, number of kids doesn't matter.[/quote]

Rather than telling her it's illegal to hire a nanny for $200-300 per week, I would suggest steering her to the au pair program, which pays au pairs a $200 stipend for up to 45 hours per week.[/quote]
Typical dishonesty. The low stipend is only a small part part of the total costs, not to mention the endless aggravation.[/quote]

Official au pair costs are $375/week. It's more with unofficial costs. I don't think an au pair is actually cheaper than a live-in nanny. It's just a different experience - very different. [/quote]

I make a minimum of $600 per week for 50+ hours.  I would say that yes, an au pair is cheaper.[/quote]

So, with overtime accounted for, your live-in rate is approx $11/hr. Total cost of hosting an AP is $410 week and we use 40 hrs/wk, so avg rate for us is $10.24/hr - not that much of a discount IMO. A HF using the full 45 hrs would have a bigger discount though. [/quote]

Unless you live in a state where overtime is required (like Maryland), families don't have to pay overtime for live-in nannies.  My minimum rate is $12/hour for 1 child, 50+ hours, no housekeeping (including child's areas), no laundry, no cooking unless the child and I are doing it together and guaranteed 2 consecutive days off every week.  When anything in that equation changes, my rate goes up.  Last position was with twin toddlers, no housekeeping, children's laundry when I decided to do it, cooking when I wanted to do it, and my rate was roughly $14.50 per hour.  Every family who has looked into an au pair has said that the nanny was more expensive, but when families always need more than 40 hours, the only way to do an au pair would be to supplement with a babysitter or get two au pairs.

I do know several families who decided to get au pairs instead.  They use all 45 hours every week, the au pair gets the minimum for days off, doesn't go along for vacation or even to the restaurant, etc.  For some au pairs, that's fine, and for a family trying to get cheap care, that the au pair they need.[/quote]

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