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[quote=Anonymous]Hi all,
We currently have an au pair that we love for our 3 year old son. It works great because she works less than the mandated 45 hours a week most weeks because he is in school for three hours a day. Therefore if we want to go out, have to be late, need help on the weekend, it's not a big deal to ask her to work extra.

We have another baby due in September and I will go back to work JUST as our au pair is scheduled to end her year with us in January. We will definitely go over the 45 hours a week because we need help in the mornings and I won't be home until 6pm. My husband also wants to go with a nanny over an au pair because he prefers a strict employer/employee relationship and has trouble with the blurred line that kind of exists with an au pair, even though we adore her.

I am trying to do a cost estimate for a nanny knowing that most weeks my son will be in school until 3pm and she'll be home with the baby from 7:30am to 6pm. Is $20 an hour a fair rate? We'll ask her to care for the baby, wash the kids' clothes, the baby's bottles, meals, take our older child to school and pick him up, etc. She would not necessarily have to do our laundry, grocery shop, or make meals for us. We live in NW DC, two blocks from the Metro.

I'd love your thoughts on possible arrangements we may not have thought about and if we go with a full time nanny, what a fair rate is given the nature of our family situation (which I realize is not unusual, I just don't know at all what is appropriate here).

Thank you![/quote]

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