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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's much more contentoious! Personally, I talk about average rate and in my experience most people do as well. Otherwise, you'd have an odd situation where a 40 hour/week job would have a much lower average than a 50 hr/wk one. When, the opposite tends to be true (fewer hours offered means hourly average tends to be more)

But, there are some respondents that get very emotional about this and any mention of an "average rate" leads to cries of deception and cheating.

My opinion... It's all just math. Unlike gross and net, as long as you are clear, it doesn't really matter.[/quote]

It may all be math, but the issue many nannies take with this whole average rate business is that some MBs will try to work the math so that a 50-60 hour job with the same requirements costs them little more than the same 40 hour job. That, in my opinion, is wrong. Yes OT is expensive, but its expensive for a reason! With this finagling of the rates what would otherwise be a $15/hour job is now 12-13 because of the obscene amount of hours and the MB trying to save a buck. Then this MB runs her mouth about how she found a great nanny for $12/hour and no one should pay more than that. But if the person taking her advice is only offering 30 hours, we are now comparing apples to oranges. It is near impossible to reach any consensus on "market rates" in this industry, and it should really just be a matter of what you can/are willing to pay and if it matches up with what your desired nanny needs/wants to make. If it does, great, if not move on, but anecdotal evidence from nannies and MBs alike means very little.[/quote]

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