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[quote=Anonymous]To get $18-20 net, nanny likely needs ~$22-28/hr, but that should be on her to figure out by looking at tax calculators or estimating from previous income/taxes. You haven’t given much info for anyone to say whether $22-28 is a reasonable rate for your situation, but in a high COL area it is not uncommon to pay that for a quality nanny. 
However, it is unusual for professional nannies to ask for a net rate... maybe if these are recent college grads who nannied part time in college or babysat for many families and got paid mostly in cash, but getting a request for a net rate would make me feel the nanny is not very mature or not very experienced.
Either way, you do not want to get into netting out pay as it sets you up for potential conflicts with your nanny at tax season. If she underestimated her withholdings, got married and started filing jointly, inherited some property or whatever and ended up owing more taxes than expected, you don’t want to be getting into an awkward discussion about whether you should have any responsibility for that. Gross rate only![/quote]

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