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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, here's the thing PP.

When these employers make a job offer to a candidate, they will offer $17.60/hr as their rate and indicate that OT (1.5) will be paid for all hours beyond 40. Then they'll say how many hours per week they will guarantee. That's it. They won't try to explain the why, they'll simply say what they are willing to pay. They'll make their offer and the nanny can accept the rate (and weekly income) or not. I think the issue is you're looking behind the curtain and would rather not know this is how people work out a budget, but it is. A family decides they can afford $XYZ per month for childcare (or car payments, or their mortgage...) and break that down into what they can afford. Then they offer that. It isn't at all nefarious.

From the nanny perspective, as a nanny myself, I know where you're coming from. You feel that if a nanny is worth $20/hr and the family offers the $17.60 because they couldn't afford her with 10+ hours of OT each week, that it's devaluing the nanny. It is absolutely about the family making an offer they can afford but the nanny is in complete control deciding whether she wants this job or not. If she can find another family she clicks with that can offer her regular $20/hr plus OT of course she'll take that position. As she should. But if she decides this job is worth lowering her hourly rate for, because of the OT or the short commute or the long-term prospects or whatever she cares about, that's nothing to you or me. Please trust us to know what is best for us, and we will assume you know how to get what you want too.[/quote]

I think this is it right here. To me if the job is worth $20/hour, it rubs me the wrong way that parents lower their hourly rate to afford THEIR overtime. I recognize that this is the best way to arrive at the numbers, but I think it can easily cross the line into deception, especially considering the number of nannies that don't understand the math. [/quote]
DECEPTIVE employers are the WORST!
Always trying to get over on the nanny.
Nasty, nasty, nasty.[/quote]

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