Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:$16-18/hour will get you TONS of resumes from candidates with lots of qualifications and experience.
If your job is a guaranteed 50 hours a week you can find skilled and experienced applicants for as little at $15/hr.
The higher the rate you offer the more demanding you can be in terms of experience, fluency, driving responsibilities, etc...
If you go as high as $20/hr you will be flooded with resumes and you'll need to set some very picky criteria to help you weed through the volume (for instance minimum number of years experience, background in child development, level of formal education, etc...)
Based on zero verified data. Just what she thinks/does, and what the girlfriends say.
Based on a search I ran this spring, in lower Montgomery County, with a position listed here, on care.com, and with neighborhood listservs. This was my experience with a search for a nanny to care for twins, so I am confident OP's experience will be similar with just one child. If she pays more than $20/hr she can command pretty much anything she wants in terms of qualifications (and nationality), but that won't necessarily guarantee best fit for the family or a higher quality of care than she might find in the $15-20 range.