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So...what's your point? What are you trying to achieve in the end? What do you want?

You need to also recognize that while you want protections and benefits (presumably from the law) you should be pushing for more child care subsidies to help parents pay for care. There's no way most parents can pay a nanny $60,000 or whatever you think they should be paid. That's an entire salary of before tax income. So push all you want for nanny protection, but you will get a LOT farther pushing for federal child care subsidies (where you get a lot more parents on board.)[/quote]

This! I want to pay as much as i can, but i cant afford 60k per year. If no one wants what i can offer, then i am not forcing anyone to take it, ill find another solution, but paying more is not an option for everyone.[/quote]

I find it interesting that most nannies on this site say they get $25 or more per hour.  At 48 hours per week, that would make $62,400 per year without OT and $67,600 with OT.

If nannies really make as much as they say on this site, then this thread on paying a nanny $60k per year would not be an issue.  Unless nannies are saying that $60k+ is not enough.  Incidentally, our office posted an analyst position and I was surprised to see that even with a MA or Ph.D the pay started at $45k.

So do nannies really make $67,600 or do they make considerably less?  And if they make $67,600, why do they say they are so underpaid?  The analysts in my office make less, but don't have this attitude.  Maybe it's because nannies work all day where they can see how well off someone else is.  I know a nanny who made $70k after taxes (so about $95k before), but she thought she was poor.  But office workers at my job don't consider themselves poor at $50k.

And there wasn't anything I could do to make the nanny happy short of paying her $95k per year (she accepted the job for less, but asked for more money after a couple months).  That would have been impossible for us.  But to her, she couldn't understand why we seemed to be well off but wouldn't share the (perceived) wealth with her. [/quote]

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