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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting ... the San Diego nanny with the $23/hr salary is thinking of leaving her job b/c of no bonus, while the Orange County nanny who makes $15-$16/hr is "very happy" with her $1000 bonus.

SD nanny makes almost $41,000/yr for 34 hours a week.
OC nanny makes, at most, before taxes, $33,300/yr. We'll add the $1000 to that.

SD nanny makes $7000 a year more, for almost one day less work each week, and yet may quit over this bonus.

This is not a rare sentiment on this board. As a MB, the message I keep getting from nannies here is to offer a low starting salary, because nannies value raises and bonuses more than earning more money altogether.[/quote]

The San Diego nanny works [i]23 hours per week[/i], she doesn't make that much per week so you have that wrong in numbers.[/quote]

[b]You all need a geography lesson.    That nanny ($23/hr) is from Santa Barbara--not San Diego.   They are over 200 miles apart[/b].[/quote]

Thank you! Santa Barbara and San Diego are very different nanny markets.  [/quote]

You are right that I got the Santa Barbara part wrong. This, however, is a direct quote from her post: "Weekly salary - 34 hours at $23/hour."
[u]I also don't think the market is much different between SD and SB[/u], though may be cheaper in OC.[/quote]

Trust me, I live in San Diego and while it is very nice here, it is not as affluent as Santa Barbara and Orange County by any means. Compared to those two cities, it is the least affluent of them all.

Plus San Diego is [i]super[/i] close to the Mexico/U.S. Border and many immigrant women travel to San Diego and work as nannies illegally for a very low rate, thus making it tougher for U.S. citizens to make a livable wage as a nanny. Plus the immigrant nannies speak Spanish which many families prefer and this perk along with paying off the books sets the immigrant nannies above the American nannies in the job market(s).  :( [/quote]

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