Anonymous wrote:16:13, stop being obtuse. There is no way to compare nannies staying overnight and medical interns/residents. You, ultimately, will be making a high 5 figure income. Also, nannies are hourly employees and interns , residents are salaried. You really are a horse's patriot.

Anonymous wrote:16:13, stop being obtuse. There is no way to compare nannies staying overnight and medical interns/residents. You, ultimately, will be making a high 5 figure income. Also, nannies are hourly employees and interns , residents are salaried. You really are a horse's patriot.

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Anonymous wrote:If the nanny cannot leave - she is working. When you work you get your hourly wage plus overtime.

This crap with the "overnight wage" has to stop! I am not in my own bed, I am not taking care of my own family and I cannot leave your child - how is that NOT WORKING?

+1 Nannies need to say no to this nonsense. My sister is a nurse and on nights she has to sleep in the hospital she is paid full wages - no one discounts her salary because she is sleeping. She is on call if there is an emergency - just like any nanny.

This is off topic but I think if a nurse works nights ideally she sleeps in the day time as a result. She doesn't sleep at the hospital. You wouldn't sleep at work of you had regular hours.

Nope, my sister has to sleep in the hospital once or twice a month and works 24 hours. So do the residents.

Yes, and as a physician who has had to "sleep" in the hospital I have never been paid extra for it. And I put sleep in quotes because if I was on call and sleeping at the hospital I rarely actually slept.

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Anonymous wrote:If the nanny cannot leave - she is working. When you work you get your hourly wage plus overtime.

This crap with the "overnight wage" has to stop! I am not in my own bed, I am not taking care of my own family and I cannot leave your child - how is that NOT WORKING?

If you aren't interested then don't worry yourself. I personally don't mind flat rate. I would GLADLY accept $75 to sleep at someone else's house, that is free money. If I have to get up and do a minor amount of work to earn that money then so be it.... If you are too stuck up to accept such a position then your opinion is not required in this thread.

I'm sorry but nannies will never be respected when we are happy for crumbs. People like you make me sad.

Being paid to sleep is hardly crumbs. You other nannies complain when the works too hard and complain when the works too easy. I get the feeling some of you just want to complain no matter what.

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Anonymous wrote:If the nanny cannot leave - she is working. When you work you get your hourly wage plus overtime.

This crap with the "overnight wage" has to stop! I am not in my own bed, I am not taking care of my own family and I cannot leave your child - how is that NOT WORKING?

+1 Nannies need to say no to this nonsense. My sister is a nurse and on nights she has to sleep in the hospital she is paid full wages - no one discounts her salary because she is sleeping. She is on call if there is an emergency - just like any nanny.

This is off topic but I think if a nurse works nights ideally she sleeps in the day time as a result. She doesn't sleep at the hospital. You wouldn't sleep at work of you had regular hours.

Nope, my sister has to sleep in the hospital once or twice a month and works 24 hours. So do the residents.

Anonymous wrote:As a nanny who does overnights fairly frequently this is the plan that my employers and I have worked out. I'm am paid my usual hourly rate during the day. Starting at the time I would usually be off (4 PM) they pay overtime until 1 hour after the children's bedtime. After that I charge a $100 flat-rate for the overnight portion, even if the kiddos wake up at some point. In the morning I make overtime for the extra hour before the kids wake up, then I'm back to my usual hourly rate.

So it looks something like this:

8 AM - 4 PM: I make $15 (my hourly rate)

4 PM - 9 PM: I make $22.50 (my overtime rate)

9 PM - 6 AM: Flat rate of $100

7 AM - 8 AM: Overtime rate of $22.50

8 AM - 4 PM: Hourly rate $15

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Anonymous wrote:If the nanny cannot leave - she is working. When you work you get your hourly wage plus overtime.

This crap with the "overnight wage" has to stop! I am not in my own bed, I am not taking care of my own family and I cannot leave your child - how is that NOT WORKING?

If you aren't interested then don't worry yourself. I personally don't mind flat rate. I would GLADLY accept $75 to sleep at someone else's house, that is free money. If I have to get up and do a minor amount of work to earn that money then so be it.... If you are too stuck up to accept such a position then your opinion is not required in this thread.

I'm sorry but nannies will never be respected when we are happy for crumbs. People like you make me sad.

Being paid to sleep is hardly crumbs. You other nannies complain when the works too hard and complain when the works too easy. I get the feeling some of you just want to complain no matter what.

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Anonymous wrote:If the nanny cannot leave - she is working. When you work you get your hourly wage plus overtime.

This crap with the "overnight wage" has to stop! I am not in my own bed, I am not taking care of my own family and I cannot leave your child - how is that NOT WORKING?

If you aren't interested then don't worry yourself. I personally don't mind flat rate. I would GLADLY accept $75 to sleep at someone else's house, that is free money. If I have to get up and do a minor amount of work to earn that money then so be it.... If you are too stuck up to accept such a position then your opinion is not required in this thread.

I'm sorry but nannies will never be respected when we are happy for crumbs. People like you make me sad.

Anonymous wrote:I am sorry the nannies are being so rude. It sounds like you are unfamiliar with overnight rates.

I assume you did not address overnights in your contract since you are asking. Therefore, you need to make this a discussion just like you would have during the initial contract negotiations. We can tell you what range is reasonable but ultimately, your nanny deserves to be approached and have her opinion heard.

My MB pays me a flat rate of $125. That is less then the cost of me working from 6pm to 8am at an hourly rate, even before you factor in the overtime. I don't have a lot of experience and this is my first time doing overnights. Your nanny may have more experience and so she may be expecting what seems to be the norm - hourly pay including overtime.

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Anonymous wrote:If the nanny cannot leave - she is working. When you work you get your hourly wage plus overtime.

This crap with the "overnight wage" has to stop! I am not in my own bed, I am not taking care of my own family and I cannot leave your child - how is that NOT WORKING?

+1 Nannies need to say no to this nonsense. My sister is a nurse and on nights she has to sleep in the hospital she is paid full wages - no one discounts her salary because she is sleeping. She is on call if there is an emergency - just like any nanny.

This is off topic but I think if a nurse works nights ideally she sleeps in the day time as a result. She doesn't sleep at the hospital. You wouldn't sleep at work of you had regular hours.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the nanny cannot leave - she is working. When you work you get your hourly wage plus overtime.

This crap with the "overnight wage" has to stop! I am not in my own bed, I am not taking care of my own family and I cannot leave your child - how is that NOT WORKING?

+1 Nannies need to say no to this nonsense. My sister is a nurse and on nights she has to sleep in the hospital she is paid full wages - no one discounts her salary because she is sleeping. She is on call if there is an emergency - just like any nanny.

This is off topic but I think if a nurse works nights ideally she sleeps in the day time as a result. She doesn't sleep at the hospital. You wouldn't sleep at work of you had regular hours.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the nanny cannot leave - she is working. When you work you get your hourly wage plus overtime.

This crap with the "overnight wage" has to stop! I am not in my own bed, I am not taking care of my own family and I cannot leave your child - how is that NOT WORKING?

If you aren't interested then don't worry yourself. I personally don't mind flat rate. I would GLADLY accept $75 to sleep at someone else's house, that is free money. If I have to get up and do a minor amount of work to earn that money then so be it.... If you are too stuck up to accept such a position then your opinion is not required in this thread.