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[quote=Anonymous]I like how some host families tend to forget that, actually, Au Pairs do pay for their room and board as it is deducted from their stipend so not actually "a gift" to the APs and that plenty of APs have to pay for their phone/gas/transportation tickets and have to pay over a thousand dollars in tax.

In many places it would probably be cheaper for the Au Pair to rent her own room in a shared flat and have another job than work as an Au pair.  Not least because they would then have no curfew, have the ability to invite whoever they want and not be accountable to the people they work for outside their working hours.

The cheapest nanny rate in SF is 20$/hour which makes for 900$/week,  so even if the AP had to pay for her own phone,  public transportation (about 80$ for monthly muni pass) and rent (let's say a 1000$ though there is definitely cheaper), food (let's say 200 dollars per month) then she would still be way better off than being an Au Pair, if only for the peace of mind of having her own space and not having to be scrutinized by her host family.

Families who say they would be better off paying for a Nanny if they had to pay minimum wage when in places like California it would mean paying 900$ a week (for one child!) for 45hours of care seem a bit deluded.

Families who can afford an AP to work only 15hours a week with their only child definitely have APs as luxuries but families with 3 kids who require 45hours a week and then some, are having a barghain with an AP regardless of the perks the family CHOSES to gift their AP.

I doubt most families who use the program are actually in it for the cultural exchange unless they want to learn a specific language so then they also get an at-home tutor included in the 196$ which saves them $$$. It seems to me like families like to focus on the perks they offer and money they ''save'' the AP and not on how much the AP saves them.

Why begrudge the person who look after your children, a decent pay?[/quote]

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