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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are wrong.

Stipend at $200 per week - $10,500
Agency fee (first year; second year$1300 lower) - $9300.

That leaves 5-8k for food and perks.

You must be a nanny. You had no clue.

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No, your agency charges much cheaper fees, you must be with a bottom barrel agency. Ours charges 12k. Our stipend 12k. Car insurance is 2k. Educational stipend is 1k. Food, gas, perks ois easily 8k. So yes, 35-40 is about right. [/quote]

What “bottom barrel agency.”? Name names because I’m 100% it doesn’t exist and if it does, I’ll switch.

28-32k a year, easy when paying the minimum stipend. Especially when your aupair demands organiz strawberries and wrecks your car.  If it’s a good year and you have a good aupair without any major drama, it’s closer to the 35k but still more if she needs to drive and you have a car insurance hike .

My breakdown is

9500 - agency fee
1200 - car insurance hike 
10400 - stipend 
2400 - grocery increase 
960 - gym membership 
360 - cell phone bill 
1500 - local trips dinners out/activities 
1040 - workers comp addition to our insurance 
500 - education stipend 
1600 - gas

All of the above doesn’t cover the additional cost of simply having another adult in the home. There are normal things like increased water bills or extra tickets to a movie for outing. If you have an aupair who hangs out with your family, carry out dinners are more and if you don’t, maybe the wear on the car goes up more.

Any additional money for bigger perks are just on top of this 
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