Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree with $9-$10/hour. At $15/hour, you could just get your own nanny to watch your baby in your own home and not have to mess with drop-off/pick-up or sharing the nanny's attention with her child and her household tasks.

No, you are wrong. Not everyone wants to entrust their baby to a stranger off the street. OP knows this woman. Remember?

Why so nasty? That honestly had not occurred to me. But I wouldn't necessarily see it as a plus either - yes, she knows of her (a friend of a friend?), but I'd be curious as to whether the mom has any experience or knowledge about being a nanny other than just being the mom of a slightly older child. Knowing someone and doing business with them is also something cautioned against for good reason. And I wouldn't just leave my baby with someone full-time unless they had experience bring a nanny.

Anonymous wrote:Agree with $9-$10/hour. At $15/hour, you could just get your own nanny to watch your baby in your own home and not have to mess with drop-off/pick-up or sharing the nanny's attention with her child and her household tasks.

No, you are wrong. Not everyone wants to entrust their baby to a stranger off the street. OP knows this woman. Remember?

Agree with $9-$10/hour. At $15/hour, you could just get your own nanny to watch your baby in your own home and not have to mess with drop-off/pick-up or sharing the nanny's attention with her child and her household tasks.

Anonymous wrote:I agree to go into it like a nanny share, and would go with around $10/hour. Given tht she only has her child and yours, legally she doesn't have to call it an in home daycare center since one child is hers. I would still go the way of designating her as an employee, just as you would even if you were the non hosting family of a share (technically that IS a daycare). An IC usually charges hourly rates high enough that offset the increased tax burden. A nanny you are paying $10/hour will be truly burdened having to pay her share and yours in taxes.

You can't just decide to call her an employee. The IRS has rules. If she is caring for the kid in her home she is not your employee, no matter what you do. You don't control her day or her environment. She is an independent contractor. Whether she declares her income is up to her but you need her SSN in order to claim the childcare credits. Either way she IS NOT your employee.

I agree to go into it like a nanny share, and would go with around $10/hour. Given tht she only has her child and yours, legally she doesn't have to call it an in home daycare center since one child is hers. I would still go the way of designating her as an employee, just as you would even if you were the non hosting family of a share (technically that IS a daycare). An IC usually charges hourly rates high enough that offset the increased tax burden. A nanny you are paying $10/hour will be truly burdened having to pay her share and yours in taxes.

Anonymous wrote:Thank you everyone! I wrote the OP, I'm just not signed in now. My child is 6 months and hers is 13 months and she is a friend of a friend. I now have a much better idea on what a fair rate may be. $15 seems high to me, but around $8-$10 is what I was thinking (plus some other benefits).Thank you all for your input!!

Yeah, just think of it like a nanny-share. If the two of you were hiring a nanny and each bringing one child, you would split it down the middle. Determine a fair rate for a nanny job with two children of those ages in your area, and split it in half, and that is basically what you pay her. She is getting the benefit of being at home in her house, so she doesn't have to be "at work" all the time at your house. She can, and will, squeeze some personal/home tasks in while she is watching your child, so it is easier on her, so she is still doing well getting 1/2 of a nanny-share rate.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure what benefits people are thinking about here but if she is watching your kid in her home, she is not and will not be an employee. As such you don't do taxes, SSI or anything like that for her. you don't owe her vacation days or anything like that.

Why?

Because she's running her own 'business' by having an home-daycare type set up.