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[quote=Anonymous]This is similar to what we pay our nanny for a baby and an older child who is in preschool 9-4pm. We pay a slightly lower hourly rate and 50 hours per week, which we guarantee even on weeks where we come home early or take days off. I think you'll find good candidates. We are also in a close-in Nova burb.

I disagree on the sick days. When I was a first time nanny employer, a friend advised not to even put a number on the sick days. If the nanny is sick, she is sick. She should be home resting and getting better, and someone who is not sick or injured should be taking care of your child. My friend who gave this advice said that they were really tested on it, as their nanny had an injury within the first month they hired her and missed nearly a week of work. But, she was injured. What could they do? Since then, she has had basically zero sick days in three years for them. I followed her advice and our nanny has had zero sick days in a year with us. If your nanny starts to take advantage of this policy, you have a different issue and # of sick days won't solve it.

I would stick with 2 weeks PTO. If you are anything like we are, you'll plan vacations and long weekends that will wind up giving the nanny plenty of time off. Three weeks on top of that starts to become pretty onerous to cover. We paid $800 to a babysitter to cover the week between Christmas and New Years last year when our nanny wanted off but DH and I were slammed at work and couldn't stay home.[/quote]

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