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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So doing the math - 25/hour * 40 is 1000 a week plus 224 for the one day a month that is all kids (plus there are bound to be days when a kid is sniffles but not sick sick and so you don't stay home but the nanny is in charge of the baby and the sniffly kid so you have to pay the extended rate or schools do what they have been saying and go virtual on snow days so you are working all day nanny needs to help other kids) but even at your calculations, it would be closer to 42,000 for 10 months at those rates.

It would be nominally more expensive to have a year round nanny and infinitely easier to find someone. You could pay 22 an hour always - sometimes the nanny only has one kid and sometimes all kids for the entire year at 45,000.

Also, there are other costs - taxes, unemployment insurance, workers comp in some states. So there is nanny pay plus some additional expenses to factor in, just fyi[/quote]

So, unfortunately $22 an hour year round, or $25 during the school year, is past the point where I break even.  I'd love to keep my job, but I'm not in a position to spend more on childcare than I earn in order to do so.

If that's really what the market says, that I need to pay $25 an hour for one kid, then I won't get a nanny. [/quote]

A nanny is the most expensive form of childcare. Not everyone is entitled to a nanny, but a nanny is entitled to a living wage. Maybe put your kid in daycare? [/quote]

OP here,

I'm the one who said I wasn't comfortable paying $17 an hour because I don't think it's a living wage.  I also said that ethically I'm not willing to hire a nanny without contributing to health insurance.  I've been clear that if I hire a nanny  to pay for winter break, spring break, snow days etc . . .   Given that, I don't think that it's fair to accuse me of being cheap, or not committed to a living wage.

However, it seems like the choices on the table are

1) Pay an individual nanny more than 100% of my salary

2) Pay 100% of my salary for a nanny share, and add the complications of a second drop off and pick up, and the need for another form of childcare for my other kids to my life.

3) Become a SAHM

I was hoping that there was a fourth option of finding someone who would like a ten month position, either because they'd like summers off, perhaps due to their own children, or because they'd like the change of pace and extra income from working at a camp or nannying for a different age group.  It sounds like there isn't such an option, so I'll probably become a SAHM.  
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