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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to provide a living wage as a nanny is a luxury service, otherwise you are depending on the caregivers’ poor quality of life and diminished power. Your nanny should not being paying the price for caring for your family. This is something I see many, many, many ignoring in NOVA - not wanting to acknowledge let alone talk about. Monthly pay should, at a bare minimum, equal the average rent of a 1 bedroom apartment in Arlington multiplied by 3 (as housing shouldn’t exceed 1/3 of income). Too many parents are using the market and history of domestic labor as justification for lowballing their childcare provider. If one cannot afford to pay a living wage for a luxury service that’s totally okay! It means daycare is what you can afford as multiple families are covering the salary of the caregiver instead of one family agreeing to provide their entire salary and benefits.  Also, it’s important to consider how the caregiver is able to cover healthcare. Are you providing health reimbursement arrangement? [/quote]

In the current market, a decent daycare center is in line with luxury service pricing.  The average teacher salary is typically less than a hourly nanny but more work due to higher ratios.  We found our last nanny at daycare, and she stayed with us for 4 years, paid more and less work with 40 guaranteed hours and paid leave.  Sure some Nannies are at the very high end pricing wise I can’t imagine paying $40 an hour unless that includes substantial cooking and cleaning (which our nanny did not do, and we never expected it of her).[/quote]

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