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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. Average hourly rate of $15 hr for a 50 hr work week. Before you get all twitchy about me not paying time and a half: we do. Base rate is $13.66, OT is that times 1.5. Week is consistently 50 hrs and if it goes over, we pay the OT rate.

Not all employers, and not all nannies, are so stupid that they can't understand this arrangement. [/quote]

Not all nannies are so stupid to fall for this arrangement in the first place. If an employer offers me a $15/hour job, I expect to be paid $15/hour, not $13.66. Only in the nanny industry do employers try to pull this nonsense.
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But this employer did not offer $15/hour but rather an average hourly rate ;-) They did it exactly right.
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You don't know what they offered. In the end they worked the numbers, but I doubt very highly that they advertised $13.66/hour. That to me is what is underhanded and makes it look like you aren't actually paying OT, you're just fudging the numbers to look like it. There is no such thing as an average hourly rate. Yes I know the average is a mathematical fact, but the term itself is a total fabrication of cheap parents skirting the overtime laws. [/quote]

I can tell you what they offered, because I'm the PP from above with the average rate. We made very clear to the potential nanny that we were offering 750/wk for 50hrs, meaning a rate that averaged to 15/hr, and broke it down in writing - in the contract she saw and signed before taking the job - what the base rate and OT rate were.  We have never advertised by rate in a job posting but instead make sure to VERY clearly articulate this during the interview process. All candidates who had specified "$15/hr" were fine with this approach and continued to express interest in the job. The nanny we hired sees these numbers plainly on her pay statements each pay cycle and yet she remains quite satisfied with her job.

Unless you simply don't believe in math, then yes, there is such thing as an average hourly rate. It's what you get when you count up the total compensation for total hours worked and then divide by that number of hours. Just because you prefer not to negotiate on these terms doesn't mean mathematical averages don't exist. [/quote]

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