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One mb was on the phone (she worked from home) and thought that the baby and I were still out for a walk. Sounded like she was filling out an application for something. She was always wearing a headset and could never hear anything. She was in her upstairs office and I heard her say her annual salary which was only a couple thousand moreover year than they were paying me at the time and over $10000 less than I made at my next job. I hurried and turned on music downstairs! Made me see why she was always so awkward and resentful acting at paytime. She was basically working to pay for me. A lot of people with children have to do this but this mb was a boastful woman. Always keeping up with the jones and getting the next trend. Her husband made good I assume but still It disgust me that she could not afford anything she was buying or if anything ever happened to her husband she would have to get rid of all the useless bs she was constantly buying to impress others.

This makes no sense. Why would anyone do that? If she is giving you everything she earns why not just stay at home? If she was only earning nanny salary she wasn't a career woman with a high paying job to protect, so I don't see any reason she would want to work and be away from her children during their formative years.

MB here who did exactly this 4 years ago when I went back to work. I had stayed home with twins until halfway through kindergarten. Went back to work at a job I was overqualified for and barely breaking even for the year after paying the nanny. After 2 job moves I'm doing a lot better now... kids in 4th grade now and won't be kids forever... love my career and happy I was lucky/right place/right time enough to restart it after 6 years out, but this would not have been possible without going into the break-even situation for a while.

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One mb was on the phone (she worked from home) and thought that the baby and I were still out for a walk. Sounded like she was filling out an application for something. She was always wearing a headset and could never hear anything. She was in her upstairs office and I heard her say her annual salary which was only a couple thousand moreover year than they were paying me at the time and over $10000 less than I made at my next job. I hurried and turned on music downstairs! Made me see why she was always so awkward and resentful acting at paytime. She was basically working to pay for me. A lot of people with children have to do this but this mb was a boastful woman. Always keeping up with the jones and getting the next trend. Her husband made good I assume but still It disgust me that she could not afford anything she was buying or if anything ever happened to her husband she would have to get rid of all the useless bs she was constantly buying to impress others.

This makes no sense. Why would anyone do that? If she is giving you everything she earns why not just stay at home? If she was only earning nanny salary she wasn't a career woman with a high paying job to protect, so I don't see any reason she would want to work and be away from her children during their formative years.

Nanny's spouse earns $160,000.

Crazy question. Some people are way to impressed with money. My mb and db make enough to pay me and not act resentful about it. That's all that matters to me.

Both are doctors. I remember them leaving one of their pay stubs out in the open once, but I don't recall exactly what it was. They both leave their student loans bills out in plain view all the time though... Now those are impressive. Around $200k each

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Anonymous wrote:Is not your business...

Like most of the topics discussed here. Hence the anonymous option. Nowhere in the first post does it say that it's anyone's right to know. Just a general discussion about it being revealed, whether knowingly or unknowingly

13.01 here. I've had kids brag to me about what their parents make, as if that makes the kids better than me. I've also had a surgeon MB who passed on 25% of her signing bonus when she switched hospitals, because my workload went from mostly 9-10 hour days to 10-14 hour days. The dad who barely made over 100k was living in an area where housing, food and everything else are expensive, so after paying me and taking care of everything else, he was lucky to have 5k left at the end of the year. As I was the house manager as well as the nanny, I was the one doing the budget, so I knew what he made down to the penny. He was the best boss I could ever hope to have. He told me at least once a week that he couldn't take care of his family and do his job without me, and he was grateful to have me, especially because he knew that he couldn't pay me what I was worth.

Those sound like great people to work for. I can't stand snarky kids. As if their parents income has anything to do with what they've accomplished in lif lol. But to clarify, was the db married to the surgeon or were these 2 different positions?

Position 1: snarky kids. Position 2: single db. Position 3: surgeon mb (and her db).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is not your business...

Like most of the topics discussed here. Hence the anonymous option. Nowhere in the first post does it say that it's anyone's right to know. Just a general discussion about it being revealed, whether knowingly or unknowingly

13.01 here. I've had kids brag to me about what their parents make, as if that makes the kids better than me. I've also had a surgeon MB who passed on 25% of her signing bonus when she switched hospitals, because my workload went from mostly 9-10 hour days to 10-14 hour days. The dad who barely made over 100k was living in an area where housing, food and everything else are expensive, so after paying me and taking care of everything else, he was lucky to have 5k left at the end of the year. As I was the house manager as well as the nanny, I was the one doing the budget, so I knew what he made down to the penny. He was the best boss I could ever hope to have. He told me at least once a week that he couldn't take care of his family and do his job without me, and he was grateful to have me, especially because he knew that he couldn't pay me what I was worth.

Those sound like great people to work for. I can't stand snarky kids. As if their parents income has anything to do with what they've accomplished in lif lol. But to clarify, was the db married to the surgeon or were these 2 different positions?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is not your business...

Like most of the topics discussed here. Hence the anonymous option. Nowhere in the first post does it say that it's anyone's right to know. Just a general discussion about it being revealed, whether knowingly or unknowingly

13.01 here. I've had kids brag to me about what their parents make, as if that makes the kids better than me. I've also had a surgeon MB who passed on 25% of her signing bonus when she switched hospitals, because my workload went from mostly 9-10 hour days to 10-14 hour days. The dad who barely made over 100k was living in an area where housing, food and everything else are expensive, so after paying me and taking care of everything else, he was lucky to have 5k left at the end of the year. As I was the house manager as well as the nanny, I was the one doing the budget, so I knew what he made down to the penny. He was the best boss I could ever hope to have. He told me at least once a week that he couldn't take care of his family and do his job without me, and he was grateful to have me, especially because he knew that he couldn't pay me what I was worth.

My employers are teachers, so I have a good idea what they make. My husband's income is public knowledge that they could look it up if they wanted to. This is the first job I've had with the odd dynamic of having a higher HHI than my employers.

I think DS' nanny knows about what I make as her sister and I have almost the same job. Doubt she knows DH's income. I can guess her husband's as it is public info. Never specifically looked his up but had looked parallel jobs up at various times.

Anonymous wrote:Is not your business...

Like most of the topics discussed here. Hence the anonymous option. Nowhere in the first post does it say that it's anyone's right to know. Just a general discussion about it being revealed, whether knowingly or unknowingly

Is not your business...

I work for lawyers, doctors, and other highly paid individuals. I've also worked for a single father who was struggling to get by, but needed 24/7 care for his large family.

I don't know how much my MB makes but I do know that my db makes about $200k/year. My mb only works part time and is probably footing the bill for the nanny also

has this ever been discussed here? I know it is a touchy subject but we're anonymous for a reason. instances for me:

When I was fresh out of high school I googled the salary of my MB that I part time sat for. She had recently taken a new position in the metro school system and all of their salaries were listed. I remember being very impressed with the $55,000 per year at the time lol. she was a single mother and was doing ok for herself.

I once worked for 2 doctors that left paystubs out all of the time on the kitchen counter when they were mailed. the db was an obgyn and his stub showed he'd earned over $4,500 for the past week. I can't remember what mbs was, she was an allergist, hers would usually be folded and i didn't want to touch anything lol


One mb was on the phone (she worked from home) and thought that the baby and I were still out for a walk. Sounded like she was filling out an application for something. She was always wearing a headset and could never hear anything. She was in her upstairs office and I heard her say her annual salary which was only a couple thousand moreover year than they were paying me at the time and over $10000 less than I made at my next job. I hurried and turned on music downstairs! Made me see why she was always so awkward and resentful acting at paytime. She was basically working to pay for me. A lot of people with children have to do this but this mb was a boastful woman. Always keeping up with the jones and getting the next trend. Her husband made good I assume but still It disgust me that she could not afford anything she was buying or if anything ever happened to her husband she would have to get rid of all the useless bs she was constantly buying to impress others.

My last mbs salary was listed in an article from her home city that talked of the high profile position that had been filled and spoke of the $350,000 annual salary.

One of the MBs that I only babysat for years ago here and there would always have something to say about me driving a nicer car than she did. Never mind that I earned my money, didn't have kids and my spouse earns well and we are blessed. But some act as if being a childcare worker means you're supposed to dream about the good life or struggle to make ends meet.

I don't know why I sometimes feel guilty when Im paid when I have a high paying salary with a family. Never had this problem when I was teaching. But sometimes knowing where their head and salaries are at put some things in perspective

Do any of you know any salary info? or deal with snobby nfs?