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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have 2 choices here:

1) Pay the nanny’s 2 child rate for every hour/day/week she works. Then the nanny will be responsible for the older child in all the ways she’s responsible for the younger child.

2) Pay the nanny’s one child rate and don’t ever expect her to do anything for your older child. You’ll need to take time off work if your older child is ill, doesn’t have school, or is out for the summer. No older kid laundry, no help with older kid’s messes, no nothing.

You are likely looking at $2-$4 more per hour to get nanny care for your older kid. If your nanny works 50 hours a week, that’s around $220 a week. $12,000 a year with your share of taxes.

If I were your nanny and you chose to pay me for only one child, I’d add a clause to my contract that any day I was expected to provide care for your older child you’d have to pay me an additional $300. Yes. $300 a day. Or pay my 2 child rate and avoid having to shell out an additional $1500 when your older child is home sick for a full week. [/quote]

I would not hire you based on this attitude because you sound contentious.

What I’m thinking of doing is offering the base rate for the hours the nanny watches the baby and then increasing the rate she watches the second kid. This will mean she’ll make more on school holidays, etc. but I don’t have to pay for 30
Hours per week of her not watching my elementary age child, which I do not think is fair, especially given that I and my partner telework and are basically around and helping with the kids to some extent so the nanny will rarely ever be 100 percent responsible as we handle school drop off and pick up, lunches, and I’m still nursing so nanny doesn’t have to wash bottles or pump parts or even give bottles and gets a break when I feed. [/quote]

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