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[quote=Anonymous][quote]So if your argument is coming from a perspective that a nanny is a young, single, childless woman just beginning her professional life and I'm thinking of a 30-something+ woman who wants to be able to contribute to her family (or support her children herself) then that is where our dissonance lies. In my opinion, a job that doesn't provide enough income OR room for advancement to increase that income (as we see in all the posts stating nannies don't deserve annual raises) isn't realistic. If it doesn't allow the women who work the job to even consider having children, or to adequately support them, that's a problem - in any job. It's particularly frustrating for nannies because not only are we working with kids all the time, but also because the nannies that women want to hire are often nannies who've had their own children...and yet in this job, in this country, very few nannies are paid enough to do so.[/quote]

I'm not the person with whom you are arguing but I agree that you don't understand the labor market. A nanny's salary is based on the market ie the supply and demand for the skills that she offers. The market doesn't change from 35K a year to 50K or more a year because the nanny's expenses change. A nanny's value on the labor market does not change when she incurs higher expenses or decided that since she has been doing this for a long time she wants to make more. There are many jobs that pay in this range. Walmart and McDonalds type jobs are half this amount. If you need to make more money then you need to do something else.

I think one of the problems is that many nannies have very little experience in other job markets. I know in our organization that we employ several hundred people in admin, data processing, or technical positions who make about the same as a $15 an hour nanny. These salaries are standard across many industries. Many of these positions have long term employees who have been doing the same job for 30+ years. They, like the nannies, are well above living wage but do not make enough to pay for buying their own home, living closer in, car payments, or other expenses. The way out of this is through education and pursuing higher paying job opportunities. [/quote]

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