Anonymous wrote:I'm a nanny looking for a part time position, and I just noticed that no one includes their pay rate when posting position openings on the Nanny Search forum. I am very experienced and educated, and I am looking for a position that offers appropriate compensation. I'm not going to email every single poster asking what they pay though. Is there a reason people aren't including it on purpose in their posts?
Care.com in comparison is useful because it tells me the location and pay rate of perspective employers. I'm surprised many people posting on the Nanny Search forums don't even include specific location such as neighborhood, or even city. There are a lot of posts in the MD Nanny Search that could be anywhere in the state for all I know. Yikes. This really makes it difficult for perspective nannies looking for work.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Because compensation is a negotiation. Most jobs don’t post the pay rate.
Interesting. If it’s really a negotiation, there wouldn’t such a big deal about parents wanting to know what everyone else pays. In my experience, every family has a magic number and they will not budge more than a dollar or two higher than that number during negotiations, so it doesn’t matter what my qualifications are, it doesn’t matter what I can offer, the only thing I can do is be persuasive and try for the higher number.
Anonymous wrote:Because compensation is a negotiation. Most jobs don’t post the pay rate.