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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I dont know what my budget would look like bc if I was considering a $15 hr job, I would have different expenses than what I have now. But when my husbands job paid $30K, he lived ina 1 br with a roommate (they built a wall to create a 2nd br in part of the living room), never ate out, didnt buy new clothes, etc - the same way everyone else with that type of salary lives.

I dont even understand the argument that bc its not a lot of money to live on, no one should pay that salary. Thats the market, no one is forcing people to take these jobs and when we posted for a nanny at $15hr, we had many, many qualified applicants.

All our friends who work on Capital Hill make $20-$30K a year andf they figure it out. Janitors, hair stylists, waiters, etc. There are many professions which pay the same range as a nanny and they all figure it out. If you want to get rich, do something else.

Also, I have my bachelor degree in earlky childhood education and it has not helped even the tiniest bit in raising my 4 children.

To be a nanny, particularly for infants, you need to be calm, loving, patient, and responsible - nothing that a degree can help you with.  Learning child development can be done easily on the job, especially considering that every child is different, and even parenting techniques and various schools of thought on sleep, eating, etc change from year to year, so anything you "learned" is not necessarily relevant to the next baby.[/quote]
If you want a young nanny you need to micromanage, 
you can pay her on the cheap.

But if you want a seasoned professional who knows how to do her job,
 she'll expect a pay rate that reflects her expertise. [/quote]

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