Anonymous wrote:I make $85,000 for 24hr M-F in NYC. The weekend nanny makes $50,000 for 24hr Friday night to Monday morning. We both feel grossly underpaid. But we are having a hard time bringing this delicate subject up to boss. I could make the same salary easily working 50-60hr week. I feel like an idiot for taking this job. But I accepted it when the agency said I would be paid around $100,000 plus a huge Christmas bonus. But after I excepted it, the agency told me they were only paying $85,000...and of course I didn't get a dime for a bonus.
I think my (first time nanny employer) boss thinks that a live-in job is the same as a 24hr nanny. So when she saw that I was making $75,000 at my other live in job ( it was 50hrs, and I lived in 7 days a week), she must of felt generous with the $85,000 salary. I have to rent an apartment, just to stay there on the weekends. How do you think I can enlighten my boss?
Hint, your weekend only counterpart has a much better deal. Sucks for you.