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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is tread lightly. She might just pack up and go home like many have.  You are getting someone for 40hrs a week for $200. If she walks you'll be on the hook for quadruple that.[/quote]

It’s not $200/week! That’s just the cash out of pocket direct to au pair. We ALL know this. [/quote]

Right. Comes to about 25k/yr. I'm a host mom.

You still aren't getting FT household help for that. Anyone who has had to pay for a Nanny or even a babysitter knows that.

When my kids were little we had a nanny. This was over 5 years ago. I paid $21/hr, fed rate for mileage, and employer side of FICA, plus a payroll servihe, excluding bonuses and gifts our bare minimum nanny expenses were 49,221.52.

For most people with out an AuPair to hire In house help, assuming they skip paying taxes, skip payroll, and skip any sort of perk will be paying $800/wk. This is still almost double the all AuPair cost.

No idea why people are so sensitive to the facts. Paying $25k per year for live in in call childcare is cheap cheap cheap. And that's ok. That's what the program is for. You're not getting that out of even an illegal immigrant. [/quote]

Our AP has been here 9 months, and we have already paid out 38k, so no, it's not "cheap cheap cheap." It's expensive - less than a full time nanny, way more than a nanny share or day care. Granted, we have one kid, so if you had 3-4 kids it might be cheaper, but for us, we are in it for the language skills and the flexibility. No idea why some people presume they have unsupported "facts"/insight into our childcare needs/costs. [/quote]

Nanny share and daycare are completely different set-ups though. An AP provides one on one (in your case) time with your child and childcare that works around your family and schedule, nanny shares and daycare don't do that. You can't compare daycare to APs and complain that APs are more expensive when you pretty much have someone on-call providing you personalized childcare. 
Do you expect to pay someone who is to look after your child/children ONLY and the exact way you want, less than a person who is looking after 12 kids and does things her way?

Yes it's more expensive than daycare/nanny share, but it's still cheap for what it is (personalized at-home childcare that like you said, can also turn into a language tutor without any increment in price).

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Not universally true, though. We had our kid in a nanny share previously, for roughly the same hours: 7:30-4:30 - with 45/hours max. We agreed to these hours in advance b/f she got here. She's not "on-call" when there is a daily max and a weekly max. It's not a built in language tutor - it's we are raising our kid in a target language environment. We could afford a nanny who spoke the target language and worked these hours if she were 45k a year, which is what the AP program will work out to be for us, most likely. We could not afford a 60k nanny which is the going rate in DC, and could likely not find one who speaks the target language. [/quote]

She is on call when you can change her hours and work schedule whenever you want to at no to little notice to accommodate you for zero compensation which you cannot do in a nanny share/nursery setting.

So your AP has to speak to your kids in her native language so they can benefit from it but it’s not a perk of the program it’s only you raising your kids bilingual. Right on. And so you admit you could afford a nanny if they were 45k but they are not and they are more like 60k and you would never be able to find a nanny for the price of an AP let  alone one who speaks your target language but yet it doesn’t mean at all that the AP program is drastically cheaper (15k at the very least for you, much more for others) more convenient and providing extras other settings don’t? Nope.

You can’t afford a nanny, you say it yourself and that’s why you settle for an AP who provides the most similar service. Yet it doesn’t mean APs are a cheaper replacement to Nannies? Right.

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