Things you can add:

Make all paid time off usable for any reason (don't split into vacation and sick days).
Healthcare stipend.
Nanny car.
Promise a one week's bonus at Christmas.

Or, advertise what you have at the rate you're willing to pay, and see who applies. If you don't like the application pool, up the rate.

Anonymous wrote:Bump?

Any thoughts/comments on making the package more attractive in my previous comments?

Your hourly rate is what's going to make it more or less attractive. Palo Alto, as you know, is a college town in name only these days. Child care is expensive, and with nannies, while you don't exactly "get what you pay for," you do need to decide what you want. Do you care if this is a person with a degree or training? Or up to date on the latest childcare research? Or would you be fine with someone who just loves children and has done work like this in the past? How much experience does she need to have? Do you have strong feelings about food, screen time, sleep/nap schedules, etc.?

This is not an infant, so you could really go any direction with this -- anything from a professional nanny to a grandma/big-sister type. Your child will be able to tell you about her day, and you're beyond the years of colic, potty-training, solid foods, etc.. But the kind of person you want will determine the rate you should offer.

I would also ask why your 4-year-old is home all day. I think you're going to find that most kids that age are in at least part time preschool, and it becomes harder to find appropriate classes and play dates, especially as the year wears on.

Anonymous wrote:OP here.

I didn't think 3 sick days was light, we have 5 days in our positions so not really comfortable providing 15 as someone suggested. I think that is a bit ridiculous.

We both speak Spanish so English speaking is not a requirement.

-40 hrs with child, no preschool.
-All recognized holidays

Re: making a more attractive package:
We are both in academia (university) and can offer time off during winter/Christmas breaks, At least a week for New year's, 5 days off thanksgiving week, spring breaks, Easter a few days off. How would you structure this? I didn't put more than 2 weeks vacation because these are set periods, while vacation time the employee chooses.


We have full time daycare and preschool options for 1200-1600 in our neighborhood so I'm going to have to disagree with $18/hr for a home daycare.

We have some candidates with varying rates of experience, all native Spanish speakers. We start interviewing this weekend and want to be sure we have a base to start from, negotiations wise.

The person was suggesting rolling up the vacation + sick leave into one package, all paid time off, to be used at the nanny's discretion for either vacation or sick leave. That way, you're offering more sick leave if the person needs it without offering more paid leave altogether.

Anonymous wrote:$18 is low but apparently you don't care about English speaking (i.e.: legal nanny) so I'm sure you can find an illegal for that rate. I live in SF and my rate is $30-35

racist much pp? non english speaker /= illegal

Anonymous wrote:So send your kid to one of those wonderful $1200 home daycares then.

You sound personally offended. I obviously understand the difference between a home daycare and a nanny, which is why the question was asked in the first place.


@Other PP, I didn't say I was offering $18/hr. I was responding to someone else about the price of home daycares in our neighborhood.
We don't care about English speaking because we rather our kids be immersed in Spanish as we are native Spanish speakers as well. Our parents are legal, yet barely speak a word of English. X=Y

OP

So send your kid to one of those wonderful $1200 home daycares then.

$18 is low but apparently you don't care about English speaking (i.e.: legal nanny) so I'm sure you can find an illegal for that rate. I live in SF and my rate is $30-35