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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Not the PP you were addressing, but your argument is silly.

You realize, of course, that the average wage at Walmart is not even $9/hour, right?  Nannies make about twice that around here.  You want to quit your job and go work for Walmart?  Or join the military!  If you want to talk about a career that is truly, disgracefully underpaid, let's discuss our military.  They protect our freedom, which is surely worth a lot.  But that isn't reflected in their pay, and their jobs are truly hard.  So stop whining about nanny pay.

The market is what it is, and no amount of wishing changes that economic reality.  Nanny wages are set by the market to pay for their services, not based on what their expenses are.  Doesn't matter if you think that is right or not.  You can rant and rail against it all you like, but we still live in a market-based economy.

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I have to agree with the PP. You can go on and on about a market based economy all you want. Morally, you should not feel okay sending the person who spends all day in your home caring for your child home to feed themselves and perhaps their children on food stamps. To live with her roommates as a grown woman, in a shitty dangerous part of town. But alas a nanny is nothing more than a laborer to you, little more than a servant. You've likely never given a thought to the struggles she faces on the wage you pay her. Nevermind, so long as you aren't breaking any laws (or won't get caught) and you still have room in the budget for your designer clothes, brand new car, and your fancy 4 vacations a year. [/quote]

Honey, I am the person you are responding to.  My nanny NETS $1000/week for 42.5 hours of work.  She has unlimited paid leave - which she doesn't abuse.  And when we go away for 6 weeks every summer, we pay her her full salary.  So STFU.

The fact that I pay my nanny well, however, did not wipe out all my knowledge of what a market based economy is.  I still recognize the law of supply and demand.  It is merely a fact of life that YOU need to accept.

Oh, and before I went to business school, I did share an apartment in a fairly gritty part of town.  What the hell is your point?  I didn't like my circumstances, so I got the education I needed to change them.  No one owes you anything.[/quote]

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