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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ha!  This could be awesome!  APs can find apartment, pay for their own food, utilities, education, phone, etc.   I will pay 2x minimum![/quote]

For that, you could hire a great nanny. That would be $25/hr at DC minimum wage, and $24/hr in Montgomery, Co. You can hire an excellent live-in or live-out nanny for less than that. [/quote]

It's true-  if we needed fulltime.  But as we keep saying, us moms CAN'T FIND ANYONE TO WORK OUR SPLIT SHIFTS!  I advertised on care.com this fall for three months - 25-30/hr, but split shift needed (6:10-7:10 and 2-6:30).  Not one taker who could do all the hours I needed.  Not one.

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It's that one morning hour. Add some housekeeping to make it 3 hours, and you could find someone. No au pair would take that job either. Even at $25/hr, 25 hours/wk doesn't pay enough to live independently.[/quote]

On year 11 of hosting.  Au pairs love the job.  Not sure what you're talking about....
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I'm saying you could pay that 2x minimum wage and find a non-au pair nanny if you added some hours, but also that if you're arguing that if they require minimum wage you'd be willing to pay double to an au pair if she covered all of her expenses, my point is that at 25 hrs a week, she couldn't pay for her own expenses even if she was happy with your split shift. You'd be right back where you were with the nanny couldn't find.[/quote]

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