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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]$17-25/hr before taxes? I’m sorry but unless the nanny lives at home with their parents or has a husband with a high paying job no one can afford to take summers off when they’re only earning $14-20/hr net. [/quote]

I'm the OP here.  I was pretty specific that I was expecting the nanny to look for other employment for the summer.  I'm a position to be helpful in finding other employment.  I work for a school that is always looking for staff for their summer programs.  As the parent of school aged kids, I have lots of friends who are parents with school aged kids.  People are constantly complaining to me that they can't find summer nannies.  So, my assumption is that a good nanny would be able to transition to another position, with or without my hep.

Given that, my thought was that if someone has a choice between the following:

Situation A: $20 an hour for 10 months, with guaranteed pay for 2 weeks of leave at Christmas, 1 week in spring, and all federal holidays and snow days, and a little extra for the older kids (about 35K total), plus $20 an hour for 2 months in the summer at a different job (about $7K), plus the 25% bonus for returning (about $1.7K) for an annual total of $43.7K.

Situation B: $17 an hour for 12 months, with less leave for an annual total of $37.5K

That there would be some people who would be willing to put up with looking for a summer job for the extra $6.2K.  Would that be everyone?  No. I am sure there are some people who would prefer the security of one job year round.  And that's fine.  But it's possible that there might be some people who would be willing to make that trade off.

Or there might be people who already have a job in the summer that they like, or who have their own kids at home who are off in the summer,  or who are in school part time, and would want to transition to full time for the summer, and would rather make the same amount of money and also be able to use their summers as they please.

Or maybe not, maybe I'm wrong about that.  [/quote]

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