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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]18-20 per hour for 46 hours.  It's two kids, but one in school so more like 1.5.  Light housework only - we have a house cleaner 2x a month this is more unloading dishwasher, sweeping after kids and folding laundry during nap.   Because of the tax thing - all of the former au pairs typically cannot do the position because they are on student visas. I am looking for someone ideally in their 20s, without kids, who speaks fluent English, drives and has some childcare background, could be anything from camp to babysitting, to working at the Y to nannying.  I do not care about level of education.   There is just so much to wade through from care.com

Ideally my candidate is in her youngish twenties who may have graduated college, or may not, or done some community college and wants an eventual career with children but not sure exactly what and wants to work as a nanny for 1-2 years.

Is this unreasonable?  [/quote]

OP we actually had very very similar requirements/wants, a virtually identical setup, and were offering pretty much the same rate though in what I suspect is a slightly less expensive market--Philadelphia.  We had a terrible time finding someone and the tax issue was a big part of it. I don't think it was just the money, people also didn't want to claim the income on their taxes, file taxes, etc.  They didn't want the hassle.

In retrospect I think another part of the problem is that there are very very few qualified, responsible nannies out there, especially younger ones.  These people are out there but there aren't a lot of them and they can be hard to find.  I do think young adults of this age can also be very flaky (we had the same problems with interview no-shows, etc).

One piece of advice I will give you--check references very very carefully.  Over the years we have had two candidates who faked references, one of whom we were close to hiring.  It was scary.  We found the fakes by Googling their references and by the caller ID of a reference when she phoned us back, which did not match the information we had about her.

Good luck.  The person you're hoping for is out there, it sounds like it is just a slog to find her.  But I am pretty certain you will.

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