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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
Get a grip, nannies. Your budget is not your employer's business. If you think nannying is a low paying job, get into another line of work. The market rate for a nanny is $15/hr, give or take. It is an easy line of work, no license is required, and has very few minimally acceptable skills. Basically, anyone can be a nanny if they want to. Many nannies are willing to work under the table, and there are families willing to pay them illegally. These are the reasons nannying is a low paying job. It has nothing to do with greed on the MBs part.

No you get a grip. You all will cry for the wal mart employees, or fast food workers, but don't give two shits about the welfare of the real person in your home every day, caring for your child. Yes anyone can try to be a nanny, but not everyone is a good one. If you are fortunate enough to have found a good one, you might want to consider if what you are asking her to live on is a livable wage. PP inadvertently illustrated that $15/hour in DC is not enough unless you are a college student living with 4 other people in a shit apartment, and your employer provides your lunch every day.
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Oh, dial back your drama. You don't know me and your hysteria is foolish and makes you look foolish.

There are issues in your profession that drive down wages. I let you know what some of those issues are. You would rather blame parents and whine about wages rather than changing the issues so you can command a higher salary. If that is how you want to go, fine. But quit your whining. If you really want to raise nanny wages, start by advocating for professional license requirements to distinguish professional nannies. Then, drive the nannies who agree to be paid illegally out of the market, and the families who employ them as well. If you did just these two things, nanny wages will rise.

Your persistence in trying to paint all MBs as selfish, horrible, entitled mommies gets you nothing and makes you look like the whiner you apparently are. Breaking down budgets makes you look pathetic and as if you see your employer as a parent, not an employer. How you fail to see this is kind of mind boggling.

Be a force of positive change.[/quote]

Like yourself?  :roll: [/quote]

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