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Anonymous wrote:$18.75/Hr is only $39,000/yr. This is barely enough to live on after taxes. She is taking care of your childten not walking your dog. I hope she finds another job and makes enough money to have a decent life.

Plenty of people live on much less than this. Im a nanny and IMO-and probably that of many others-$18.75 is an incredibly good wage for a profession that requires no formal education/training, licensure or regulation. Teachers, with years of education, both initial and continuing, and strict performance standards sometimes do not even make this much. Nannying is a very important job, don't get me wrong, but it is becoming insane how much people are expecting to be paid for a job that, essentially, anyone could attempt to do.

Like parenting, anyone may attempt the job of caring for a child, but very few know what they're doing. Just look around. Sad.[/quote]

True, there are many nannies out there who don't know what they are doing. That's why it's outrageous that they think they deserve constant raises and bonuses for such an easy job.[/quote]

It's your job as an absentee parent, to find the best substitute care you can afford.

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True, but that has nothing to do with whether or not OP's nanny should get $20 per hour vs. $21.50 per hour.  As we've heard over and over on this board, there is no clear correlation between nanny pay requests and getting "the best" care.  Surely you aren't suggesting that parents are obliged pay whatever a nanny asks for solely because they (the parents) work outside the home?  [/quote]

Let's not delude ourselves. Of course there's a correlation between better help and better pay, unless you found a stupid person who wants to make your babysitting job, her charity case. If you cover her basic survival costs, she may even do it almost for free.
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