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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whether or not a nanny can live as she wants, where she wants, on her earned wages is solely the nanny's responsibility. Nanny market rates are what they are because there are many, many nannies who will work for that rate. If there were fewer nannies on the market, demand would rise and wages would rise.

There is nothing unfair in paying a legal wage to someone who agrees to it. The nanny here who keeps complaining on how to live on a certain wage doesn't seem to understand that certain jobs require certain skills and those skills are worth a certain price in the marketplace and that's they way the world works. Nanny skills are common and it's an easy job with many perks.

Don't like it? Find another career.[/quote]

Yet we complain that Walmart workers, restaurant employees, and fast-food servers are paid so little they qualify for food stamps and medicaid. We criticize the CEOs of these companies for stiffing their employees, for letting all of these people struggle for their survival just so they get a bigger profit... and they don't even KNOW these employees.

Nannies are in your home, LOVING YOUR CHILDREN. Whether or not they can survive on the wage you pay them should very much be something you care about, or you are - I'm going to say it - a bad person. I've worked at jobs where I made very little - $13/hr nannying, and an AmeriCorps position that provided me 16K a YEAR - and I've worked at jobs where I've made a lot - $20/hr nannying, and a recruitment position that paid over 80K a year - so I know how to survive on less, this isn't an issue of it being impossible, it's a question of your ethical character and the concern you have, again, for the person you've hired to LOVE YOUR CHILDREN.

And don't give us any crap about how we aren't here to love them. Of course we are. Not like you love them, but our jobs are to cuddle and comfort and teach and play and do all the things that make children feel safe and secure and content. We love them. Treat us at least as well as you'd treat your friends and neighbors.[/quote]

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