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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nannies need to remember that the only reason this average rate business is an issue is that nannies are non-exempt workers who still insist on getting guaranteed hours that include any hours over 40 that they are likely to be needed.  That is a perk that is expensive for families to provide and therefore warrants a reduction in the base rate.  That reduction is reflected in an average rate for a 50 hour/week job that may be on par with the base rate for a 40 hour per week job.  This isn't deception; it's the market pricing the cost of guaranteed hours into the going rate for nanny care in excess of 40 hours per week.  If it weren't for this custom, far more families would split their jobs among two nannies to keep the hourly rate affordable.[/quote]

Have you ever tried to fill a PT nanny job? Its not easy. If it was, more people would do it for exactly the reasons you stated. But they don't because your "market" doesn't support it. I'm not saying the practice of "average rate" is deceptive. You can average anything. Its deceptive to advertise a $15/hour job, when you plan on averaging the rates, and its really less than $15 for the majority of the hours. When you go to apply to any other job, retail, food service, office work, the hourly rate stated is your rate. Time and a half for hours over 40 is a given. Why is it exactly that nanny employers don't just state the actual hourly rate they are offering? Like I said before, because it sounds nicer to say you pay $15/hour. You don't. Or you don't pay OT. Which is it?[/quote]

You don't see other jobs advertising an average hourly rate because no other hourly-rate job provides guaranteed hours that exceed 40 per week.  That--like average rates--is a construct of the nanny field.  And the reason more families don't hire both a full time nanny and a part time nanny for the hours over 40/week is that they don't need to.  The vast majority of nannies are happy to earn a guaranteed average rate that is more or less what they could command per hour in a job requiring only 40 hours/week, i.e. $15-$18 per hour.  Most think of their overtime rate as kicking where their guaranteed hours leave off, i.e. at the 51st hour to use the example discussed throughout this thread.  [/quote]

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