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Anonymous wrote:Wow. A week's pay is a lot, but good to know. She's great with our son, but she doesn't do anything around the house other than wash his dishes from lunch.

What are your expectations re 'doing things around the house'? Was she hired as a nanny to your son or a nanny plus house helper? That complaint says much about you.

I thought it was expected that she would at least pick up toys and put them away when the day was done. She leaves everything on the floor as is and leaves.

So come home a few minutes earlier and ask her to pick up the toys before she leaves.

No, it's a nanny's responsibility to put toys away a few minutes before the end of her shift. The parent doesn't need to come home early for this to happen. That's just ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. A week's pay is a lot, but good to know. She's great with our son, but she doesn't do anything around the house other than wash his dishes from lunch.

What are your expectations re 'doing things around the house'? Was she hired as a nanny to your son or a nanny plus house helper? That complaint says much about you.

I thought it was expected that she would at least pick up toys and put them away when the day was done. She leaves everything on the floor as is and leaves.

So come home a few minutes earlier and ask her to pick up the toys before she leaves.

No, it's a nanny's responsibility to put toys away a few minutes before the end of her shift. The parent doesn't need to come home early for this to happen. That's just ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. A week's pay is a lot, but good to know. She's great with our son, but she doesn't do anything around the house other than wash his dishes from lunch.

What are your expectations re 'doing things around the house'? Was she hired as a nanny to your son or a nanny plus house helper? That complaint says much about you.

I thought it was expected that she would at least pick up toys and put them away when the day was done. She leaves everything on the floor as is and leaves.

So come home a few minutes earlier and ask her to pick up the toys before she leaves.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. A week's pay is a lot, but good to know. She's great with our son, but she doesn't do anything around the house other than wash his dishes from lunch.

What are your expectations re 'doing things around the house'? Was she hired as a nanny to your son or a nanny plus house helper? That complaint says much about you.

I thought it was expected that she would at least pick up toys and put them away when the day was done. She leaves everything on the floor as is and leaves.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. A week's pay is a lot, but good to know. She's great with our son, but she doesn't do anything around the house other than wash his dishes from lunch.

What are your expectations re 'doing things around the house'? Was she hired as a nanny to your son or a nanny plus house helper? That complaint says much about you.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. A week's pay is a lot, but good to know. She's great with our son, but she doesn't do anything around the house other than wash his dishes from lunch.

Isn't being great with you child enough? Geez...

Anonymous wrote:Wow. A week's pay is a lot, but good to know. She's great with our son, but she doesn't do anything around the house other than wash his dishes from lunch.

Anonymous wrote:Wow. A week's pay is a lot, but good to know. She's great with our son, but she doesn't do anything around the house other than wash his dishes from lunch.

Anonymous wrote:You'll get "one week pay" from everyone here OP.

I'm an MB and I've never known any other employer to actually pay that much.

We typically give anywhere from $200-500 in cash as a holiday bonus. The $200 went to a nanny who had just started with us in October, and the $500 went to a nanny who had been with us for 3 years.

We do it under the table. So, for some nannies perhaps $500 is the equivalent of a week's NET pay, but that isn't the measure we use for the decision.

You do what you can, if performance merits a bonus and you are able to give one. As an employee I think a raise matters more than the size of the bonus so if you're going to budget for anything put more towards an hourly rate increase.

Anonymous wrote:Less than $100 feels like you are sending a message. Between $100-500 is fine but nothing to write home about. $500-$1000 is excellent. Over $1000 indicates that they really feel you are spectacular.

(This said, I make ~$1000 per week before taxes)

If you need to be on the lower end, don't sweat it. I don't know any nanny who would quit an otherwise well-paying and satisfying job over a small bonus. It's the jobs that are either already overworking or underpaying or just generally not appreciative/considerate--if there's already issues it can exacerbate.

If you know you can't afford a generous bonus, you could compensate by throwing in extra PTO days around the holidays if your family is in town and can take the kids. You should also be VERY mindful of not pushing extra work onto the nanny during the holiday chaos if you know her bonus will be small. If she spends mid-November-Christmas helping to clean the house for guests, pack for holiday travel, take the kids to get photos done, make cards for teachers, wrap presents for Aunt Edna, etc. etc. on top of her normal workload and THEN is given a small bonus...it definitely makes you look bad. Even if she offers to do XYZ to help out, be mindful of accepting since she won't think, "I am sure they planned to only give me this gift card since last August and that's why they accepted all my help without bumping up my bonus.