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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tada! I hope this goes through. AuPairs work no different than nannies, why should they be paid so much less? Anyway, everybody should try and get a nanny asap because the cheap labour aka AP conveyor belt is about to stop.[/quote]

I have both a nanny and an au pair. The nanny costs me way less. The cheap labor myth is a lie perpetuated by au pairs and maybe nannies. 
I couldn't care less if the program went away though. What the au pair program
really is an immigration path for a lot of very entitled people. 
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How exactly is a nanny cheaper than an au pair?? “Nanny” must be an illegal babysitter with minimal English.[/quote]

An aupair costs roughly $35,000-40,000 a year.
A nanny working 30-35 hours a week making $22/hr is: $37,500. If you pay for taxes and insurance, it will be roughly $42,000

You do not have to cover food cost, car insurance, wear and tear on your home or belongings and usually not cellphone costs. No education stipend or paid time off for required courses.

If you have both a nanny and an au pair, I'm assuming neither are full-time. The fixed costs of an au pair mean that even if you use 25 hours, the costs are the same rendering the nanny cheaper when comparing hourly wage.

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My nanny is not an illegal with minimal English. She is a retired elementary school teacher from the Midwest.

Her hourly rate (and we give her guaranteed hours) is lower than the hourly rate for our au pair (assuming 40 hours for the au pair; we need between 35-40 hours typically, 45 max some weeks if one of us is traveling).  I am not even counting the value of housing.

People don't understand the true cost of having an au pair because the costs are distributed.  An au pair is like having a child.  Are children cheap? Ummm NO!

Costs for an au pair include: stipend, agency fee ($12K this year), cell phone, auto insurance, car (or equivalent car payment if you buy and finance a spare vehicle), car maintenance, vacations, outings, education stipend, food, gifts.
A family that doesn't provide a lot of extras to an au pair is spending minimum of $30K.  We are at waaaaaaaaaaaaay above $40K right now and there are still 3 months left in our contract.

My nanny is scheduled 20-30 hours/week, 20 hours guaranteed.  Au pair is around 35 hours.  Long story how we ended up with both, but short version is that we were planning on leaving the program early, so got a nanny.  We ended up not leaving the program, so we ended up with both. We don't want to let the nanny go, because we are exiting the au pair program and need the nanny later for more hours. And yes, nanny is still more cost effective at 40 hours and we get our spare room back.[/quote]

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