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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, can you accommodate a live-in for the entire week and weekend?  If so, you can pay significantly less by treating this as a barter of housing for services.  Maybe pay $15 per hour for the hours the person is actually engaged with the child before bedtime and in the early morning, if applicable.  Depending on how many hours that is, you might be looking at $150-200 per week.  Then offer free housing in exchange for the liven-ins commitment to be in the house and available for wakeups Monday eve through Friday morning.  Depending on the accommodations (private bath?), I can see this appealing to a grad student.[/quote]
You are so out of touch with reality. But if you know someone, by all means.....[/quote]
She would still be working. She can't leave.  They have to pay at least minimum wage. Plus overtime.[/quote]

Yes, they have to pay minimum wage, but not necessarily in cash.  They can treat the fair market value of the housing they provide as payment-in-kind.  Obviously this would only work if the accommodations would be available to the caregiver all week long, so she wouldn't need to maintain a separate place.

This kind of arrangement probably would not appeal to a professional nanny or someone who puts a high value on socializing every night, but plenty of students would be happy to get free housing in exchange for staying home to sleep and study four nights a week, Monday through Thursday.  Housing costs are high in DC.  Even for a room in someone's home can easily run $600-900 per month.  Plus, this is probably eight hours a week of active childcare, if that.  While it is true that the caregiver would be working during all hours in which she can't leave, no rational person would expect to earn the same rate for sleeping that she earns for active and awake care.

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Yes they do have to pay at least mininin wage per hr in cash. That is the law. This is not a live in job so overtime applies as well. Some states require over time for live in nannies as well. Live in nannies or night nannies like this get paid at least minimum wage. They don't get rent deducted. You can maybe say well since you are living in full time and sleeping most of your working hrs I will pay you 7.25 per hr. you don't say I will pay you nothing. It is a job. And op sounds like a great mb who pays a going rate. [/quote]

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