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[quote=Anonymous]The math here is a hot mess. OP, the correct and legal way to do it is to only talk about an hourly rate, and separately discuss paid/unpaid holidays, vacations, sick days, guaranteed hours. Usually if people in this forum say $16 an hour they mean $16 for each hour actually worked, but also each hour of paid time off. Very simple example is that Monday is a paid holiday and Tuesday-Friday each have 8 hours of work. Nanny gets paid $16 x 32 working hours + $16 x 8 holiday hours = $640. None of us would say that nanny’s rate is $20 because $640/32 actual work hours = 20.

But the problem you are asking about here is communication. Why did you and nanny set up the payment this way? I assume it’s for ease of finances, either you proposed it because of how your household gets paid or she asked for it because of how her bills are structured. So have all the financial discussions on the same basis of the payment amount for each 4 weeks or month or whatever it is. Don’t flip back and forth with some hourly rate calculation. If you continue with this weekly payment structure, give raises as $x per week too.

The underpayment by 20 or 200(?) is your mistake and your nanny is right to ask you to correct. However the subsequent asking for raise from $16 to $20 very quickly is a bit of a yellow flag for me. It would indicate to me either nanny is financially illiterate or she is looking to get as much money as she can out of you. However, I don’t imagine the nanny market is super big in Wyoming so you may want to work things out with this nanny if she is good with your kid. But you need to sit down and mutually agree on terms like payment, holidays, hours, reviews etc and then write them down! People call it a contract but it doesn’t have to be some formal thing drafted by lawyers and signed off by notaries, just a written description of the job basics that is signed by both sides, which you can use as a starting point for any future discussion.[/quote]

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