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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to raise her base hourly rate, OP.  You are paying far too little.  Overtime payments are not a way to justify paying less.  She is working long hours for you and deserves the overtime pay.  I think you should raise her to at least $20 an hour.

Kids in school still have laundry and eat meals.  And there are holidays, teacher conferences and sick days where she could have all three kids home.

It would be [b]a very foolish economy[/b] in your circumstances to risk losing a wonderful nanny just when you need her the most because you were cheap - or she could earn more while doing less with another family.   [/quote]

I love the term "foolish economy".  My Irish grandmother used to use it and it is right on the nose here.  Whatever moneys are spent now can be recouped later.  These years home with a nanny are numbered.  With a new baby and the transitions for both older children, it would be a "foolish economy" to short-change your nanny and risk losing her when you need her the most.

I would give her a larger base rate increase than $1 (standard when adding a newborn) but certainly would never go less than $1 an hour.  [/quote]

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