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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a nanny working a share with 2 families (13mo old and 16 mo old). I generally charge $17-18 an hour for one family. In a share I charge $13 per family so essentially make $26 an hour. This is my third share and all have worked about the same. Working with 2 sets of parents makes the job a lot more difficult. It has a lot more to do with the 2 sets of parents and their expectations and schedules than the fact that there are more children. [/quote]

I think a nanny who would normally make $17-$18 for one child can reasonably ask for $12-$13/child in a share. That is a significant discount on your normal rates. The issue I find, however, is that most families doing a share are doing so because they want something different than daycare but can't afford/don't want to pay for their own nanny. So if setting up a share is at its core about the money, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a family willing to pay you in a share what they could pay their own personal nanny. I have worked in a few shares and I find that most share families aren't trying to pay much more than they'd pay at a center (some are even so shysty they try to pay less than daycare rates). [/quote]

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