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[quote=Anonymous]OP, we use the blended rate because it simplifies the split between the two families, who don't have identical hours. Legally, we are separate employers so OT could be calculated based only on each individual family's hours, but practically/ethically it is one job in our view, so once the nanny shows up, the clock starts ticking for OT regardless of which kids she has at which point. At the end of hour 8, it goes to OT, even though sometimes she has a child (mine!) who has not been there for eight hours yet. So we calculate everything as if one family had two kids the entire time, which is much fairer to our nanny, IMO (bigger paycheck for the many hours she works) and avoids the situation of figuring out if the early or the late hours should count as the OT for the purposes of dividing costs between families. If we did not have a share, I would not bother since it is more complicated and more expensive to do it that way.

But again, we have all of this--including the base rate of $20 and the number of OT hours at $30--in our contract. Luckily our nanny had no issue understanding any of this, and had she ever asked us to just use the straight rates, we'd have happily done so (but given that we pay slightly more overall using the averaged rate, I doubt she would ever ask us to switch back). YMMV depending on your situation, though.[/quote]

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