Reply to Split this money with our nanny?

Forum Index » General Discussion

Reply to "Split this money with our nanny?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]op: She comes at 7 am and leaves at 6 pm M-F.  Most school days, unless he is resting from morning seizures, he goes to school at 8:25 and comes home at 2:45.  She does some chores during that time, but not enough to take nearly that much time.[/quote]

So on school days, unless he's resting from a seizure so he stays longer with her?  He goes to school at 8.25, returns at 2.45, she leaves at 6.  Okay, so on a normal day, an hour and 25 minutes in the morning, 3 hours and 15 in the afternoon, plus chores, but you think it doesn't take long, so I'm figuring it at 2 hours per day.  So, that's 6 hours and 40 minutes per day, 33.33 hours per week.

You said $1050/week.  So $31.50 per hour, definitely great, even for a special needs nanny.

However, then you have weeks off of school.

You're looking at 55 hours per week, so $16.80 per hour, nowhere high enough for a special needs nanny, especially someone who has known the child for 7 years and knows how to handle that child's needs.

You need to negotiate a specific rate per hour, probably at least $28/hour, given her time with your family.  Forget about the weekly rate, that's part of the issue and why she feels entitled to the Medicaid money.  She needs to track hours for chores or you need to set a prescribed number of hours for chores.  Finally, she needs to understand that the Medicaid money is intended to help YOU, and to be her pay, therefore you will pay the difference for the first four hours per day, then the full rate per hour for the rest.  As I said before, you really, really need to make this a condition of employment.[/quote]

This is not how nannies work. They don't "clock out" in the middle of the day just because the kid isn't there. They are paid for all of the time they are expected to be available. Maybe she would agree to this for a higher hourly wage, but then OP loses the absolute certainty that the nanny will be available at the drop of a hat if her child has a seizure at school. If the nanny clocks out, she could be in an appointment, at lunch, exercising, whatever.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics