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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course your position is comparable to daycare; you are their ALTERNATIVE to daycare.

Parents pay a set amount every week at daycare - they should budget to do the same with their nanny. Yes, you need to explain this to some parents, but it is standard and you should go into this discussion with confidence.[/quote]

Sorry, but nanny pay and daycare pay are not comparable.  Nannies get paid by the hour.  Daycare centers have an annual budget that breaks down to an annual fee per slot, with the total annual fee per slot getting paid in weekly installments for the convenience of the family.  Holidays and the providers' other time off are already factored into the daycare's annual fee.  Also, because daycare is a group setting, the provider doesn't simply get extra paid vacation when one child does not use his slot in a particular week; the center must stay open for its other charges.  This isn't the case with respect to a nanny who works only for one family; for her, getting paid for the parents travel time is akin to getting additional paid vacation.  The daycare model is also true of teaching salaries where teachers have an option to get paid an annual salary divided over the nine month academic year or the same salary divided over the twelve month calendar year.  They are getting paid at the same rate, but receiving their compensation differently.

If nannies want to be paid a fixed amount every week in the manner of a daycare center, they need to be prepared to earn a lower nominal hourly rate, discounted to reflect time the family won't need her services.  In other words, they need to focus on the average effective rate rather than the nominal hourly rate.  Except, of course, when nannies manage to dupe new parents into thinking that it is standard to get 6 or more weeks paid vacation.       [/quote]

Nannies get paid by the hour because it is federal law and because, as the other PP mentioned, they offer flexibility that daycares do not. If we followed the daycare model exactly you'd get charged a late fee per 5 minutes late when coming home - but probably what happens is you just pay your nanny a little more at her hourly or OT rate, no?

Any decent nanny employer recognizes that they will need to pay for childcare 52 weeks a year. Budget accordingly. If you can't sort that out, you have no business being someone's employer and the great nannies won't touch your jobs with a ten foot pole.

(And 2 weeks vacation is standard, I don't know where you're getting 6 weeks or implying that it has anything to do with the topic under discussion.)[/quote]

Agreed that 2 weeks vacation is standard, with one week at the family's choice and one week at the nanny's choice.  But most families take off more than one week per year, and if the nanny gets paid for that time but has no responsibilities, then she is getting additional paid vacation.  Most families will pay a lower hourly rate in that scenario.  [/quote]

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