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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No nanny I know in DC gets less than 25 hr for one child, and most people get 27-28. If your nanny can not pass basic "quality control" then why did you hire her? I can answer for you, you did not care about quality as long as you can get anyone cheap. Not a smart decision, PP. These early years form your child future personality, so you need to have someone who actually helps with that task. Also, you only will be paying the nanny for a couple of years, so for many it is worth getting the best.[/quote]

You’re telling me that a nanny with a high school diploma and little to no babysitting experience is making $25/hr, or $52k per year - roughly the starting salary of a college grad?  And if you think $25/hr is the baseline, what is a 20 year nanny veteran making?  $250k/year?

I don’t think parents are looking for the “cheapest” option per se. I think they have to do a financial calculus for their family. If a working mom is making less than, say, $80k per year, it makes sense for her to stay home with her child, since her salary is just covering the nanny’s salary plus taxes. So I can understand working moms who don’t make much more than $100k trying to save some income for their own retirement and get a “cheaper” nanny.

Also a child’s personality is largely influenced by genetics (aka nature) and parents. A truly heinous nanny abusing a child will absolute cause short and long term damage but a so so nanny isn’t going to really “shape” a child’s personality nearly as much as parents and genetics do. [/quote]

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