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[quote=Anonymous]This statement is pure nonsense.   People that believe the AMOUNT you pay equals service are falling into a slippery slope trap.  This fear is echoed in many professions including the legal field, where lawyers (like myself) have to increase my 'hourly rate' to prove that I am good enough or better than someone else.  Truthfully it works well for us, my pockets are more full.... and it works for nannies as well ;)

Here are the facts for many of the non-informed parents

1. Nanny care is expensive, regardless of the fact they are just over-paid babysitters.  The proof is in the pudding. When we had a babysitter we gave her a list of actions to do with the baby when we were gone, including but not limited to:
A. Story Time
B. Engaging Activities and Reading Books
C. Monitoring their Internet Usage and etc
D. Food to cook or prepare for the baby

2. This site has more nannies that post than parents, and due to that the rates and the opinions are very skewed.  It's ok, everyone needs to make a living, but setting artificial standards or skewed numbers ultimately leads to 'buyer beware' situation.

3. Many of these nannies asking for more than 15.00 an hour will find themselves out of a job, unless they find someone else gullible enough to pay them.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arlington/550k/$20 an hour base/50 hours/1 baby

All in w taxes and benefits it’s close to 70k a year I think? So yeah, wouldn’t be doing this if we made significantly less. [/quote]

Arlington at the moment; Our income is around 400k.

Its amazing how much your spending on a Nanny;  I guess having a nanny is really a pure luxury (like a sports car).

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Do you not think an experienced nanny should be making a minimum of $20/hr?[/quote]

Truthfully no. They are blue-collar workers with very little college education. When I graduated from Law school, i didn't even make as much as some of these nannies do. Its surprising and sad. I guess if you can find someone willing to pay you the amount some of these nannies are asking for then.... good for them.[/quote]

I’m puzzled by how many parents claim their children are the most precious things in their world, but then don’t want to pay someone a good wage to secure excellent care. Guess you don’t really value your children’s care and safety. You could probably get some dude off the street to look after them for 20 bucks a day. What does it matter, it’s simple work that obviously a moron could do, amirite?[/quote][/quote]

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