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[quote=Anonymous]$34 more per week is a 60 cent per hour raise. If your nanny currently makes around $19.25/hour that's a 3% raise.

3% is barely adequate as an annual raise. It's a flat out insult as a new baby raise, and if you offer 3% as a combo new baby/yearly raise your nanny will be crying out of fury as she goes home and will be job hunting that night.

Your DH needs to get over himself. You both have decided to make school an expense so deal with it and give a 15-18% raise to your nanny. If she needs and wants health insurance you may be able to give her that as a before tax benefit, which lowers your tax burden and hers as well.

Think a bit about how much juggling your nanny will now be doing. Write down a projected daily schedule that will kick in once you are back to work. Ask yourself and your DH if either of you could handle that schedule. If the honest answer is "HELL NO!", then raise her rates with a smile.

And if the reality of her job doesn't work to make your DH think, toss out how much fun it will be to have a new baby and two older kids who have lost their nanny and have to get used to a new person in their life. [/quote]

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