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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, I’m in the program, but this is just silly.

Of course it’s cheap. Like you just said, you can’t find a local person to take the job for “cheaper” even though you think it should be (if you offered a rate someone would take, they would take the job!).

It is cheap childcare... relative to your alternatives.

I tried like hell to find before/aftercare at a similar price point or even a bit more. Reliable employees who will actually show up at the times you schedule them are much more expensive. Therefore the program is cheap childcare.

And before you accuse me of being one of the disgruntled nannies, part of the reason I am in the program is the flexible scheduling. Local nannies complain about any last minute schedule changes even when they demand time and a half for them.[/quote

100% agree!

I'm new to the program off the heels of a 43hr a week nanny.  Our expenses (with no real flexibility for the weekends were)

20hr (inc OT) $46,280/yr (I paid for 52 weeks a year, one week sick, 2 weeks vacation) PLUS nearly 8% in FICA taxes
had to supply a nanny car, so no difference whatsoever in that. The alternative would have been reimbursing the nanny at the 54 cents a mile in an unreliable car, NO THANK YOU.
Christmas gift was one weeks worth of pay.
I always allowed our nanny access to our fridge to fix herself lunch/snacks.

I was well into 52K in the hole with a nanny.  An AP has been dirt cheap. Yes, DIRT CHEAP.  I have at least 2K back in my pocket each month.

We have 3 children and even if we did use aftercare, we would be looking at $450/wk in aftercare (for a bargain basement aftercare) and a fortune for camps during summer and breaks and a hell of a lot of hassle.[/quote]

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