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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are no hard and fast "market rates" for nannies. There just aren't, because parents who want nanny care for their kids all have different childcare budgets. And nannies all have varying hourly rate expectations.

If someone like the OP refuses to pay more than $13-15 per hour, she can likely find a nanny to hire. Will the nanny be excellent? Probably not. That nanny may be married with young kids, and can't work if her child is ill. Only the OP can decide if paying a low rate is worth having to miss work every time her nanny's kid is ill.

Another family may choose to hire a $25/hour nanny. That nanny could be amazing, or she could be a dud in some way. Once the family determines what might be missing in their nanny, they can choose to keep her or to seek a new nanny.

The same goes for nannies. A nanny who feels a connection with a family during the interview maybe willing to lower her rate VERY slightly in order to work for that family. A nanny who interviews with a challenging family will likely raise her rate as much as she can to make a tough job worthwhile. And nannies fire employers based on work vs. wages just as often as employers let nannies go.

Ultimately, most typical nanny jobs wind up paying a living wage based on where nanny and family live. The family that paid $12/$14/$16 per hour and were unable to find a good nanny 3 times over will either accept daycare as their destiny or offer $18/hour and finally find an amazing nanny. The family that offered $25/hour and wound up with a diva nanny may lower their rate a bit and find someone fantastic for $22/hour.

The only people who lose out are:

1) Families who refuse to accept that there is no such thing as a fantastic $13/hour nanny and go through nannies every few months without reevaluating what the actual issue is for their family.

2) Nannies who overprice their abilities and wonder why they can't find a long term job. [/quote]

Team,

1. Nannies have hourly rates, and have hourly rate expectations.  These over-inflated expectations are driven primarly by fear mongering, which is heavily perptuated here.  Lets face it, every nanny here that wants more money, argues 'you get what you pay for'.  As if there is some silly correlation between paying someone more money and quality.

2. The Nanny industry as a whole is somewhat of a sham, with no real accredidiation or standard that needs to be met to qualify as a 'nanny'.    Many of the certs that are recieved are either for profit, OR have no real relationship to the field. I am talking about the manny nanies that have 'social worker' degrees,  or other degrees that have no outside job market.   Ultimately many nannies here that do have higher educations, want to be rewarded for choosing majors without any career potential.  I think its great you have a degree in social worker, or psychology, music or art, but that has very little barring on you sing 'I am a little tea pot' or doing basic nanny duties.

3. Nannies on this forum do not represent average salary requirements.  I am here to tell parents, who are finanicially conscious that they can get someone cheaper, that can perform the same duties.

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