She probably can't afford to wait the week to pay her bills, buy groceries, etc. and doesn't feel comfortable saying as much to you. You make the decision about what to do in this circumstance but it's a terrible feeling to be expecting and relying on a paycheck, just to find out it isn't coming. I've been in this situation before and they didn't pay me for more than 100 hours before I got a check. I was young and uncomfortable saying anything and I wound up sobbing on the train on the way to work one day before it was finally straightened out. I was using quarters, then dimes, then nickels to pay for my subway rides to work.

We use nannypay.com
It's basically a DIY payroll service. For one low annual fee ($200 or something lesser) they provide the documentation for our checks and the Schedule H for fed and any necessary quarterly/annual state filings.
We cut our own check for nanny right from our bank account.

This allows us to avoid any awkward pay issues and be on the right side.of.compliance for FSA and the tax man. We can also give nanny advance payment when she knows she's got a trip.or large expense coming up.

No middleman.

I have never had a job that didn’t pay a week behind. The pay period that ends on Friday gets paid the following Friday.

I have a small business and employees are paid every other Friday by a payroll company with direct deposit and they are not paid a week behind!

Anonymous wrote:Don’t give her an extra check. I don’t want to sound rude, but is she foreign born? I know my mom doesn’t trust direct deposit and prefers to get a check instead of DD.

Our first nanny was like this in that she had a very hard time understanding our payroll service, taxes, basically everything that comes with a professional job. She could not grasp the concept of vacation day accrual ( thought she could take it anytime etc). It was really annoying for me honestly.

Anonymous wrote:You screwed her. Most hourly employees live paycheck-to-paycheck and, unless you are an idiot, you know
this. Stop with the crap of paying a week behind.

Most hourly employees are paid by payroll. Only cash workers are usually paid the same week.

I’m a nanny, and I prefer payroll. I’ve been paid weekly, biweekly and monthly. In all cases, you get paid one statement later, and your last payroll deposit is one statement period after work is discontinued.

Anonymous wrote:You screwed her. Most hourly employees live paycheck-to-paycheck and, unless you are an idiot, you know
this. Stop with the crap of paying a week behind.

Did you read the whole post? It was the payroll system not her.

You screwed her. Most hourly employees live paycheck-to-paycheck and, unless you are an idiot, you know
this. Stop with the crap of paying a week behind.

Write a check for an advance now. The week she gets her check from the payroll system, don’t pay her.

OP here. She said she is comfortable with direct deposit. And the pay stub makes clear that the pay this week is for last week’s work. She will get paid every Friday- there was just no payment last Friday because that’s when I set the direct deposit up, and since the payroll company pays the week after the work is done, whereas I paid the week the work was done, it seems (to her) like there is a week missing.

So she's getting paid bi-weekly?

If you do/can give her a check, just tell her the following week she will not receive a paycheck and just confirm that the check written was for the week of X (via email for your records)- that's one option.

She may really need the money OP, and was expecting to get paid each Friday.

Don’t give her an extra check. I don’t want to sound rude, but is she foreign born? I know my mom doesn’t trust direct deposit and prefers to get a check instead of DD.

Thanks, PP. that was my inclination- I feel like if I pay her extra now, I’d have to keep track of the fact that I paid her an extra week, and once she leaves it would be logistically more confusing.

Nope, don’t write the check. Direct her to the company site to check the faq and remind her that she will receive her last check one week after she stops working for you.

We had a new nanny start a few weeks ago. For the first two weeks, I wrote her checks on Friday for the hours worked those weeks. I then entered her info into our payroll company’s online system to set up direct deposit. The way the direct deposit works is delayed a week. So, for nanny’s third week of work, the payroll company told me not to write a check, as her pay would be by direct deposit. But the system is set up to do the deposit one week later. So, nanny’s hours for last week will not be paid until his Friday. Our nanny feels like I should have written her a check last Friday for her hours last week. I tried to explain the payroll company system- that she will still be paid for the hours, it’s just delayed- but I get that she feels she wasn’t paid for a week. Should I just write her an extra check st this point? I don’t want to double-pay her, but want to make sure she is happy!