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[quote=Anonymous]PP here. This is really frustrating.  OP asked a question that I'd really like to know the answer to and this just devolved into useless drivel.

The question is how to deal with the PAY of a nanny when you have two kids, but she's only caring for two on a limited basis.

OP, we are going to be doing this in the fall.  The answer is obviously NOT that you pay for two and suck it up. That's ridiculous.  I also think it's kind of silly to say that it's too complicated to do hourly rate.  Our current nanny watches my some part time and if he's sick and stays home, I see if she can stay all day (completely within her discretion).  If she says yes, then I add her extra hours to the payroll. How is that hard??  Similarly, if my older son is home because no school or sick, then I add the extra to her payroll!!  I just don't see the problem with this.

Anyway, what we are planning to do is tell her that there is a weekly rate and show her the math on what that rate is based on (letting her know that any additional hours with more than one child will result in an increase of that week's rate).  For US it looks like this:

40 hours a week of infant care, 16 hours of those 40 include toddler care.  SO we do 24 hours a week at $16/hour ($384) and 16 hours a week at $22/hour ($352/hr). So that's $736 per week, or $2944/month.  We would tell her that is what we're paying her and then if the toddler is home, we add the extra $6/hour to each hour that she has them both.  We pay a payroll service so this is incredibly easy for us to manage.

I would love to hear some more real responses to this rather than the crap that tends to come from nanny forums, but maybe expecting too much here.[/quote]

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