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$18 per hour is a good rate for this job. Always set your rate as a gross rate, not a net.

Find what you what, then ask her what her rates are, if you want to be logical.

OP here. Follow-up question.... In NYC, we paid $15/hr for one kid and then paid the nanny's taxes on top of that. Is that common here too? I.e., if someone says to offer $18/hr for this job, is that $18 net or gross?

We are looking for a full-time nanny this summer to care for our two oldest children while I care for our newborn. I SAH, so I wouldn't need someone full-time after the summer but would possibly be able to have someone work one or two days after the summer is over. The older children will be 4.5 and 2 when the baby is born, and the oldest will be in camp from 9am - 1pm for the month of June (the 2 year old may also go to camp two days a week for two hours at a time in June) and will probably do a couple of other weeks of camp during the summer. I know it's hard to predict, but my intention is that the nanny will only be responsible for two of the three children at any one time and will rarely be responsible for the newborn unless I am taking the older children somewhere by myself.

I know that short-term assignments and those involving SAH parents are not very popular, so I'm trying to sort out how much to pay per hour for this job. What other benefits should I offer? Where should I look for this person? I was thinking that a college student would be ideal. We are in NoVA.

Thanks for any help or advice! We had a nanny for our oldest when I WOH full-time, but that was over two years ago and in NYC, so I'm not sure what is market-standard in the DC-area these days.