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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is one of the issues where this board (or one nanny) is most unreliable. Every nanny that I interviewed reported her average rate when asked about her previous salary. Not one ever reported her base rate. The nannies were far more interested in the weekly pay than the hourly rate.

I agree fully that the contract should specify actual base and OT rates but when you are negotiating its best to talk in terms of average rate. This is also what the employers share on this board. I suspect that one bad nanny want people to think that 50 hours a week @15 is much more than $750 a week..always trying to falsely jack up the rates. [/quote]

Yes, this is exactly right.[/quote]

By your logic, why exactly would a nanny take a your 50-60 hour job over a 40, when apparently higher hours don't pay that much more, I miss dinner with my kid, have to wake up at the crack of dawn, don't get home until after its dark, etc. Why would anyone do that, if not for good money. No one is trying to falsely jack up rates. I'm telling my experience, just as you are telling yours, but I guarantee I have been on more nanny interviews than you, and personally know more nannies than the maybe 4 you interviewed. Of course however, because you are an MB your experience is the "truth" and all the nannies that disagree are liars. When I negotiate a job, I do quote a weekly rate. But that rate encompasses what I deem an appropriate hourly rate and the OT. I'm not going to work for $10/hour just because you work like a dog and want me to work like one to but would rather not pay the arm and leg the law requires. OT is meant to make you think long and hard before asking an employee to work beyond a reasonable schedule. 60 hours IS unreasonable no matter how many of you lawyers do it. I'm sure you see it reflected in your obscene paychecks. [/quote]

Absolutely true PP! I have no idea why employers (And some idiot nannies) think that the more hours you work, the less hours you should get paid.

There's another post on DCUM's that is about a 24hr nanny not getting paid for all hours worked, or decreasing her base so it's not too expensive.

People are idiots who would take a 24hr job and make the same for a 60hr a week job![/quote]

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