OP, if I am reading your last post correctly, you plan to keep her wage at $780/week, but cut her hours down to 40 from 50?

So her base rate now is $14.18/hour, and she gets $21.27/hour for the 10 hours of OT. You want to shift that to $19.50/hour with no OT.

As a nanny, I would **absolutely** accept that offer, as long as I was made generally aware of the work issues currently affecting your family. IOW, nanny needs to know that you value her work, but just can't manage a raise right now.

You might also want to let her know that once your DH has his job back on track, her hours will go back up to 50, and a raise will be in order, which will actually lower her hourly, but increase her weekly gross pay. I would also suggest revamping your work agreement to reflect the changes and the future expectations.

If she will truly have every Friday off, she can seek out additional jobs to make a little more money or she can simply enjoy 3 day weekends and the ability to schedule her own appointments on Fridays.

Make her the offer. With a whole day off, she may be able to find another job to make up the income. Like you said, she doesn't have to take it.

FWIW, if you can't afford her anymore, and she doesn't want the job you have to give her, I do think you'll be able to find someone else on those terms.

You don't owe her the job she's always had; be fair and kind and give lots of notice, but if you don't need her 50 hours a week anymore, then you're not obligated to keep her emplyed at that level. Note that your husband's company didn't worry too much about the same problem!

Anonymous wrote:
Op I would not feel guilty. 780 a week for 2 kids and only 40 hours is a high salary and will be hard for her to match out on the market. She can look but you could also find an equally qualified nanny for 650-700 not 780 for 40 hours a week easily.

why is there always a poster who hints at finding a new nanny? I can only imagine how many nannies you go through.

I agree that there are many nannies on the market who would love to find a job paying $650-$700 for 2 kids/40hrs and be ecstatic about a job paying $780/40 hrs. Its always better to have a happy nanny than a sourpuss nanny who thinks she deserves more. The OP's circumstances have changed and at the same time her nanny is pricing herself out of a job. OP can make an offer and the nanny can choose to accept or decline. If the nanny declines, the OP has other options too. The OP shouldn't feel guilty or worse feel like she is held hostage to inflating her nanny's salary when it is outside her budget.