Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think your nanny, PT mother's helper in your case, should receive the same percentage annual raise as you (or your partner if you don't work) receive.

Why?

Because a $1/hr if fairly low, but you may not be able to add much more to your childcare bill. If you get a 10% annual increase though, you should easily be able to add 10% to your nanny's salary. It combines your happiness with your nanny with your ability to up her salary.

Your reasoning is extremely flawed.

I'm afraid it's all relative. My MB loves to remind me that she couldn't do her job if she had to worry about her childcare. So every year she gives me the same percent of her annual bonus. She's a lobbyist so of course my bonus is no small change.

You could start out by referring to it as "Mother's Helper", not Mommy's.

Is she really a "mother's helper," as in, you're there the whole time and she does some childcare and some other things, or is she nannying on her own? $1/hr seems like a perfectly fine raise if she doesn't have sole responsibility for the children anyway. $15/hr is high for what I think of when I think of a mother's helper to begin with.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think your nanny, PT mother's helper in your case, should receive the same percentage annual raise as you (or your partner if you don't work) receive.

Why?

Because a $1/hr if fairly low, but you may not be able to add much more to your childcare bill. If you get a 10% annual increase though, you should easily be able to add 10% to your nanny's salary. It combines your happiness with your nanny with your ability to up her salary.

Your reasoning is extremely flawed.

Many professionals in the working world can get $5+ raises at a time, does that mean nanny should get $5+ raises? LOL, NO! That's not the market infact, the nanny market shows $1/hour as the standard raise for nannies.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think your nanny, PT mother's helper in your case, should receive the same percentage annual raise as you (or your partner if you don't work) receive.

Why?

Because a $1/hr if fairly low, but you may not be able to add much more to your childcare bill. If you get a 10% annual increase though, you should easily be able to add 10% to your nanny's salary. It combines your happiness with your nanny with your ability to up her salary.

$1/hr is not low. I've seen dozens of nanny threads throughout the Internet and I know many nannies and $1/hour is VERY standard.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think your nanny, PT mother's helper in your case, should receive the same percentage annual raise as you (or your partner if you don't work) receive.

Why?

Because a $1/hr if fairly low, but you may not be able to add much more to your childcare bill. If you get a 10% annual increase though, you should easily be able to add 10% to your nanny's salary. It combines your happiness with your nanny with your ability to up her salary.

Your reasoning is extremely flawed.