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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't get the comments about housing.  More than likely you have that extra bedroom regardless of it is used so its not costing you any more and you have her/him living with you for your need, not theirs.[/quote]

But if a young woman was to try to be a live-out nanny - she would have to pay a lot of money for housing in this area.  So host families are providing a huge financial benefit to these au pairs.  How do you possibly not understand that?

Putting the au pair program aside, this is why live-in nannies are paid less than live-out nannies even when the job is typically a lot harder.

How is this a hard concept to understand? 
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If a young woman was sent by an employer to NYC for work, and they put her in a very expensive hotel room, that's not effectively a "benefit" for the employee. She's being required to work in NYC. If a family lives in the Watergate and that extra bedroom costs them $$$ or lives in Olney and it costs them relatively less, the difference in those two bedrooms isn't reasonably part of the au pair's compensation package, any more than my employer paying in my hotel room in NYC vs Sioux Falls, SD is.

And, when calculating a live-in nanny's pay, you're only allowed to take the value of housing into consideration, for wage law compliance purposes, when the nanny has the option to live out if she so chooses. Otherwise, that's considered to be for your benefit, not the nanny's.

Is THAT hard for YOU to understand? [/quote]

A young woman could find affordable housing - live with a family member, in a group house, etc.  The value of housing is more for the employer to have an extra adult in the house vs. that adult.  Most don't want to live in someone else home under their rules and restrictions and quirks (look at the posts about food).  You aren't paying the extra bedroom costs.  You have a house size and regardless of if a live-in is there you will have that house and just have it as a kids room, office or guest room.  You did not buy that house for the Au Pair.  You may have picked a house for live-in child care but that only lasts so far.

If you travel for work, an employer gives you a hotel room and travel, that is not part of the compensation package but the requirement to do the job.  The requirement is to live in.  Most probably would rather be paid that extra money and live out of your home.[/quote]

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