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[quote=Anonymous]21:20, you're just wrong.  I am certain that some nannies requesting premium rates are worth every penny.  These women are certified educators or have other child development-related graduate degrees.  They usually follow a loose curriculum and can report back to employers about what skills they are teaching through what kinds of play, etc.  Most of us would pay a premium to get a full time private teacher for our kids, provided we could afford it.

Unfortunately, those nannies are extremely rare.  More often, I've found that the nannies requesting above-market rates are either young, inexperienced and trying to keep up with what they heard Susie on the playground earns, or long-term nannies who think that experience in the job necessarily makes them exceptional.  In both cases, they are hoping to prey on new parents who don't know what market rates are and are scared of not doing right by their kid.  And they usually have PITA personalities.

I do think you sacrifice quality--or at least credentials such as college education, maturity (i.e. not a student), English language fluency, a couple years experience, and the legal right to work in the US--in order to pay less than $15 per hour.  But the best nannies I've encountered are squarely in the $15 to $18 range (depending mostly on number of kids and total work hours) and they are reasonable about things housekeeping and demands for PTO.[/quote]

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