Reply to Upset...long vent

Forum Index » General Discussion

Reply to "Upset...long vent"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Charging your regular rate for hours the kids are awake and then a flat fee for the rest of the night (if they sleep through the night) is very common. The flat rate is generally anywhere from $50-100, most do $50-75. For me, that rate would be about (maybe slightly less than) 1/3 of my usual hourly rate for sleeping hours. Since I cannot leave the house for anything during this time, it is completely reasonable to have that rate in place.

Overnights are not cheap. There is a reason for that, because someone is giving up all of their free/personal time, leaving the comfort of their own home and doing a double/triple shift with your children. Most nannies don't charge OT when legally they would be within their right to do so.

If you want to take off over night without children for whatever reason, it's going to cost you. You were the ones that made the choice to have children, so you can't expect to just hand them over to someone else for the whole night for $20. It's not a dog, you are not having someone just come over while you are gone to feed it and take it for a walk or 2.[/quote]

This is part of why I like being salaried. If my boss needs me overnight (which has happened only a couple of times) I work overnight. She doesn't pay extra. When I go on vacation, however, or need to leave early, come in late, or miss a day (including holidays and when she's away with them), I don't lose out on any money either. It works out, usually in my favor, and there's no need to worry about this stuff. [/quote]

Well, I get the same benefits as you with being able to take a day off sick, leave a bit early etc without having it affect my pay. But I do charge for overnights, because I am losing out on the rest of my day and my whole night and usually my next morning which I normally don't work. She understands this and pays me accordingly. Even if I didn't get those "benefits", I don't normally take or need that extra time off for stuff and so it definitely wouldn't be "working out in my favor" in the end. It's great for you if you do need that flexibility and it works out for you. It's unreasonable to expect that most nannies would be willing to make that same choice though, to not charge for overnights at all.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics