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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I make $22/ hour, but I will go further to describe the difference between me and them charging $20/hour - Me: I have 10 years of experience as a professional long term and full time nanny. I work in Bethesda/Chevy Chase/Potomac/NW DC; I drive to their house (I get in a car and drive to the family's home, and that includes my commute time, wear and year of my car and gas). I pick the kids up from school and drive them wherever they got to go, I make them dinner and clean up after them, and when the parents come home their kids are home with full tummies and their kitchen is clean. Ohh, I also help with laundry, picking up their toys, make the kids bed and help with extra projects and even run errands. Parents come home and everything is perfect, they don't have to do anything but leave their shoes at the door and the dishes for me to load in the dishwasher the next day I come in. They pay for this!

College kid with no experience as a nanny: They have no experience therefore they don't deserve $20 and hour. Do I need to explain it further?!

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I don't see how you with 10 years of experience doing what you do means a big difference than someone with 1 year of experience doing the exact same thing for this type of work? It's picking kids up and taking them to activities, helping with homework and cooking dinners and cleaning up a bit. I can understand the difference if you are an infant/toddler nanny and you have many years more of experience which is helpful to the parents (especially if they are new first time parents), but after school gigs don't really utilize the experience factor quite as much. Someone with 1 yr of experience can do just as good of a job, and some could even do it better than some with several years of experience. The $20/hr thing for this type of position is mainly due to the fact that it tends to be PT hours and they want someone that will stick around with them for the full school year and so paying a good rate will find someone that will do that. It's harder to put together multiple PT positions that have schedules that mesh well so the pay gets upgraded a bit for that.[/quote]

Yes i agree that it doesn't need many years of experience to do those basic and easy things, but the years of difference does make a difference when it comes to dealing with the kids, and educating them because I still have to help discipline them. It is not like i only drive them and do those light housekeeping dutties, with no interaction, And depending on the age and the kids, some relevant experience is required and mandatory. For example, in my case the kids are 6 and 8 and they have some special needs, they are completely normal so to speak but they require some special skills and experience with kids to be able to handle them. Someone who doesnt have experience with  children wouldnt probably pick up on their special needs and wouldnt care for them accordingly. Not even the parents were able to do so and that is part of the problem. There is much more to just driving the kids around and preparing them dinner. [/quote]

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