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This thread is embarrassing for you, OP, and for every nanny who engages in over sharing her personal finances to guilt parents into paying above market rates. This is not the way to earn higher rates.

Your problem is not bad, evil MBs who don't care about you. Your problem is you have chosen a profession that is flooded with people who will work for a variety of rates and who have no particular way to distinguish themselves in a way that automatically commands higher rates.

It's true that you only need one family to accept an above market rate to employ you and I absolutely think nannies should market themselves to parents as exceptional nannies who are worth high rates.

But don't do it by claiming you should make more because you have a cable bill to pay. You chose to live in a high COL area in a low skill profession. Thousands of people make it work here on less than you make. Your expected benefits are really good and your PTO and other perks may well be equal to your employers, so sympathy rates won't work.

And you don't need sympathy pay. You need pay rates based on your skills and dedication. Focus on that and ask for the rate you deserve at every interview.

Cable?! Have you even read the thread? Yes, about 120 thousand people do meet the federal poverty line in a DC. I would rather earn my pay then benefit from your tax dollars by joining the crowd. Point to a single instance of OP citing bad or evil MBs! The suggestion that OP does not earn her rates, but relies on sympathy, is ludicrous. That is the going rate for DC. That is the rate at which other MBs will shame another parent for paying a dime more. It is also the rate at which employers will call you all sorts of lurid names if you attempt to ask for better. Have you not read any thread on DCUM?[/quote]

Of course I read the thread, but I'm pretty sure you didn't, or you're not particularly swift.

Are you really that naive that you fail to recognize what the OP is doing? She is absolutely indicting MBs for not paying her more and by sharing her expenses is absolutely trying to play on the sympathies of potential MBs and nannies. And she was sort of successful, supported by later PPS who talk about human rights and such.

Total smokescreen.

As for your other point. Wow, you are paranoid if you think any parent shames another about what they pay. Doesn't happen. Parents pay what they want to get the nanny they want for the job they want. The best thing a nanny can do is to make sure she is valuable, worth her rate, with specific examples.

Finally, I never suggested that OP didn't earn her rates. What I said was she was justifying her rates based on a sympathy case. She doesn't need to do that and she is debased if she does that.

In every negotiation, approach from a position of strength.[/quote]

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