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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting. We're in Canada and our base cost for pay for around 27 hours a week is C$32,000 or $24,000 a year (we have to pay min wage and deduct room and board). Add in the food, higher utilities, extra linens, perks such as annual passes to local attractions, subsidized winter clothes and cell phone, plus dinners out, skiing trips, etc., I'd guess it's around US$35,000 a year. Gulp, I'd never looked at it that way before. I don't consider it cheap as I can't afford to hire a cleaning service so I have to do most of the cleaning myself either in the morning before work or after the kids go to bed at night. I do get annoyed when I find her sitting around during working hours looking at her phone, I feel like saying "Find something to do, you're costing me a fortune!". 
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Wow, that sounds expensive! can you break down the costs? I am really curious.
I did a quick google search and I see some agencies with fees around $1000/family and AP gets between $265-290/week which all come to less than C$18000. Where are the extra fees coming from or my information is outdated?[/quote]

I may have miscalculated, let me think ... you're right, it's actually more like C$21,000 gross (salary @ $14 an hour before tax and before room and board deductions). Apologies ... and it makes me feel better about the cost, thank you for pointing that out!!!! I'd say we probably easily do another C$2000 in additional expenses per year. Also the room and board deduction is not high ($85 a week) for the quality/amount of food, new linens, utilities, etc.
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Cool, I much prefer your system, here most of the cost goes to the agency not to the AuPair, we pay $9000 agency fees and there is no clear value for room and boarding, so there is a lot of confusion about that . The cheapest you will get here is about US $20k (not counting the extra) which is more like C$25k. So you get it cheaper but pay AuPair better![/quote]

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