Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My wife and I are beginning the search process for a live-in nanny. Looking to understand the market rates for live-in nanny's.
- 2.5 y/o and 4 m/o
- 45-50 hours per week - including 2-3 overnights per month due to parents' work schedules
- Daytime hours (except overnights) - toddler goes to school during AM
- Other than the overnights, we don't have any non-standard requirements.
- Housing: 500 sq ft nanny suite with separate living area, bedroom, and full bath. Separate entrance, off street parking, internet/cable/utilities included.
What is the hourly rate we should offer?
Would it be feasible to offer flat weekly stipend?
Thanks
500 sq. ft. Is very small and hardly an incentive unless the person is homeless.
Anonymous wrote:My wife and I are beginning the search process for a live-in nanny. Looking to understand the market rates for live-in nanny's.
- 2.5 y/o and 4 m/o
- 45-50 hours per week - including 2-3 overnights per month due to parents' work schedules
- Daytime hours (except overnights) - toddler goes to school during AM
- Other than the overnights, we don't have any non-standard requirements.
- Housing: 500 sq ft nanny suite with separate living area, bedroom, and full bath. Separate entrance, off street parking, internet/cable/utilities included.
What is the hourly rate we should offer?
Would it be feasible to offer flat weekly stipend?
Thanks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We pay ours $750/week and she works between 40 and 50 hours a week (40 during normal school weeks and 50 if kids aren't at school) and have the same amenities (separate apartment), utilities etc included. She's American, experienced and educated.
Before anyone above gets excited, we have it in our contract as $15/hour for 50 hours a week (though we often don't use all of those hours), and time and a half does not apply to live-in employees in DC. I believe that it does in MD. (I have sought legal advice on this and do my nanny's taxes through HomeWorkSolutions who have provided the same advice).
OP: Thanks for the insight and for the tip towards HomeWorkSolutions. I've looked at them at a similar service through Care.com, do you find it to be worthwhile and valuable?
Yes, HomeWorkSolutions is really easy to use and not too expensive. I saw the care.com service but HomeWorkSolutions is a local company and offer a more personalized service, which I found helpful when I was setting it all up. I would certainly recommend using a company to do all the taxes. It's not super complicated but it is quite a bit of admin and it's not something I wanted to worry about or get wrong - either for my sake or the nanny's.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We pay ours $750/week and she works between 40 and 50 hours a week (40 during normal school weeks and 50 if kids aren't at school) and have the same amenities (separate apartment), utilities etc included. She's American, experienced and educated.
Before anyone above gets excited, we have it in our contract as $15/hour for 50 hours a week (though we often don't use all of those hours), and time and a half does not apply to live-in employees in DC. I believe that it does in MD. (I have sought legal advice on this and do my nanny's taxes through HomeWorkSolutions who have provided the same advice).
OP: Thanks for the insight and for the tip towards HomeWorkSolutions. I've looked at them at a similar service through Care.com, do you find it to be worthwhile and valuable?
Anonymous wrote:Our G4 live-in nanny gets $7/hr for our 3 kids. 40 hours/week now that kids are in school.
If 2 kids are normally 850-950 a week live out I'd do 2/3s of that for live in. or half if you are providing all the food and amenities plus living arrangement.
your living arrangement for nanny en suite sounds fabulous.
Appreciate your feedback. Those rates for a live-in are right about what we anticipated. We got really lucky with the en suite set-up here - it was definitely designed with nanny/in-laws in mind!
Anonymous wrote:We pay ours $750/week and she works between 40 and 50 hours a week (40 during normal school weeks and 50 if kids aren't at school) and have the same amenities (separate apartment), utilities etc included. She's American, experienced and educated.
Before anyone above gets excited, we have it in our contract as $15/hour for 50 hours a week (though we often don't use all of those hours), and time and a half does not apply to live-in employees in DC. I believe that it does in MD. (I have sought legal advice on this and do my nanny's taxes through HomeWorkSolutions who have provided the same advice).
Anonymous wrote:Our G4 live-in nanny gets $7/hr for our 3 kids. 40 hours/week now that kids are in school.
If 2 kids are normally 850-950 a week live out I'd do 2/3s of that for live in. or half if you are providing all the food and amenities plus living arrangement.
your living arrangement for nanny en suite sounds fabulous.
Anonymous wrote:My wife and I are beginning the search process for a live-in nanny. Looking to understand the market rates for live-in nanny's.
- 2.5 y/o and 4 m/o
- 45-50 hours per week - including 2-3 overnights per month due to parents' work schedules
- Daytime hours (except overnights) - toddler goes to school during AM
- Other than the overnights, we don't have any non-standard requirements.
- Housing: 500 sq ft nanny suite with separate living area, bedroom, and full bath. Separate entrance, off street parking, internet/cable/utilities included.
What is the hourly rate we should offer?
Would it be feasible to offer flat weekly stipend?
Thanks