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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You cannot afford to have her watch him. Find a family member or change your plans.

Someone who could afford this would not be asking if you need to pay for her food (of course you will pay for her food).

A quick, rough breakdown of cost:

assuming your baby's day runs 7am-8pm (13hr per day)...

13hr/day x 7 days = 91 hours

40 hours at $16/hr = $640
51 hours at $24/hr = $1,224

for overnights you will either pay a higher set rate (I'd ask $150-200/night if your baby is up at ALL during the night) or a lower set rate ($100-$150/night) plus $24/hr (OT hourly pay) for any time the baby is up, rounded up to the hour (i.e. if the baby wakes up at 2am and goes back down at 2:20am, you'll pay for the FULL hour - not 20 minutes of it - as the nanny still needs to get herself back to bed/has had her rest seriously interrupted).

So you're looking at around/at least $900 for the overnights.

That's a total of $2746 plus expenses.[/quote]

This is ridiculous. For a trip this long, the overnights should be $50-100/night, regardless of how many times the baby wakes up. And this is coming from a nanny who is VERY careful about being paid properly.[/quote]

I would want to charge $75 for the non-awake hours (say 8pm-7am) since it is with a child that might still wake up during the night, and then my normal hourly rate for the awake hours (7am-8pm). I would probably not charge any OT just use these rates for the whole time. I would expect that there be some basic food provided for me (milk, some fruit, bread, etc) and then I could always supplement it myself.

It would come to $208 for each daytime hours and then $283 for a whole 24 hours. For the 7 days and 6 nights, it would come to $1906 ($1456+$450).

Even if I chose to do only $50 a night, that would still end up being $1756 total ($1456+$300). I might drop that to a flat $1700 for you, especially if the first or last days you were gone didn't equal a whole day. You can't really go any lower than that, that is with the nanny being very considerate/flexible with rates already.[/quote]

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