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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Travel for me with this current job was brought up in the interview, as they travel frequently.

I get my rate of pay times 24 per day. If I work 1 hr or up to 24 hrs, it’s the same pay per day. Yes sometimes I work 1 hour while on vacation sometimes it’s all day.

Than I get my own room and bathroom. All food paid, transportation.

My travel rate starts the day we leave and ends when we return to their home. So if we are gone 2 weeks. I get $zzz X 24 X 14. [/quote]

So, does this come close to $400/day? I imagine it would, for 24/7 coverage.

We don't take our nanny because it's easier to hire someone locally for a few hours. We couldn't afford an on-call person for the whole time, and once you add up the travel expenses + extra stipend for being away, even if we don't use additional hours than her usual schedule, it's still cheaper to pay someone by the hour while paying the nanny to take the week off back home. I know that's been a bummer for our current nanny who would have loved to travel with us, but paying her regular salary + occasional OT is all we can manage.[/quote]

Yes it comes to over $400 a day. It comes to between 750-850 / day. (Not giving exact number as I don’t need to share my hourly rate). 
Like I said this was all discussed in the interview, as we travel frequently (at least every other month).

It’s not my vacation, it’s work for me. When I go on vacation it’s totally kid free (on purpose) [/quote]
There certainly are nanny employers who can well afford the $800/day, but not most of them. The best nannies need only one. :) [/quote]

The challenge is that there is only one best nanny and one best employer, hope you find each other, however you make that determination.  The rest of the nannies and employers will have to make some compromises.  [/quote]

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