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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The going rate for an experienced caregiver is $30 hourly plus 2 week vacation paid and most holidays paid as well. We give stipend towards health insurance. Cost of living is high in the DMV, so I don’t see how a person can live on a $20 hourly. [/quote]

Roughly $62,000 a year costing a family $78,000 in childcare costs. Just putting it into annual costs at 40 hours a week. 
$20/hour is $42,000/year. Costing a family $52,000 a year in childcare costs.

I have no opinion on whether a family or a person can live on $42,000 a year but I can imagine it would be very difficult for a middle class family to afford 78k in childcare costs. [/quote]

It never occured to me that a "middle class family" would have a nanny.  I always thought nannies were for very high income folks.[/quote]

This.  This is why this board is full of people normalizing $30/hour as a reasonable rate for a nanny taking care of 1 child.  Yes, middle class families have nannies.  No, they're not just for the very high income folks.  And no, sorry, there aren't enough very high income folks in this area to employ every nanny at $30/hour.  If that's who you want to work for, be very clear in your interview.  But this probably means you'll be in the "search" phase for a while. [/quote]

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