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Anonymous wrote:Bumping for the silly person who thinks good infant care costs $17/hr.

I have a newborn and a 19 month old and my nanny is $15/hr and we don't do any of those benefits and extra costs. We don't live in DC proper but close enough.

Anonymous wrote:Bumping for the silly person who thinks good infant care costs $17/hr.

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe this thread is active again.

Asking about rates on this board is like asking a bunch of gambling addicts how much they deserve to win. The responses are quite amusing sometimes.

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Anonymous wrote:I'll bite: link to ONE example in the parents forum where a "MB" is claiming that's acceptable pay.

You searched already and found nothing?

You don't understand how this works. You make a claim, you back it up. You can't just run around saying whatever you feel like and its fact until someone proves you wrong. That's not how the world works. Another hint; nannies don't make $30/hour (unless they work very few hours, like 1 or 2). If you make that much, you're probably doing much more than nannying.

Which thread was it that had the FT nanny earning $52/hr? No one said, repeat: no one said that every nanny qualifies to be "high-earning". You have your average, you have your low-earning newbie nannies (or the warm-body type), and you have the relatively few (rightfully so) high-earning nannies. After all, if they "all" earned 25-30, they wouldn't be "high-earning", would now?

Some nannies DO earn 25-30/hr. Remember, at least one nanny earns $52/hr.? So please stop with your asinine stupidity that "nannies don't make 30/hr., unless they work 1 or 2 hours". The ONLY thing you DO know is what YOU may pay a nanny. And that may be HALF as much (or less) as what SOME other nannies are earning.

And yes, high-income earning nannies indeed do much more than what most of you commonly envision for a "nanny". It may even be that they don't actually "do" more, depending on your understanding "doing". For instance, the best nannies do NOT engage in "multitasking". Because these nannies are not expected to "keep busy", as you call it, they are well-informed AND understand the overwhelming research, that multitasking is definately not something to aspire to. (You may google the word.) So, in just that one example, the professional nanny may be "doing" less, in your eyes. However, if our most acclaimed researchers in this field, come to observe such a nanny, they would most certainly recognize her uncommon ability to teach her charges in a developmentally appropriate fashion. And no, she's not going to try to make a bright 2 or 3 year old child, read. She knows better.

+10000000000 you rock! Love the last line of your post!

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Anonymous wrote:OP and her ilk are full of shit.

I make a flat 62k/yr caring for triplets. This is the very high end for nanny rates. I'm college educated and was born in the US. My rate is not the norm and is high.

When this job is over, I'd be a FOOL to think it will be easy to find another nanny job that pays as well. This kind of nanny pay is few and far between.

Carry on with the bullshit.

You have no clue how many nannies out there earn six figures. Most of them don't care to be interviewed by the press.

You really don't sound much like a nanny at all.

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Anonymous wrote:My thinking is if you want to earn more than an average salary, you have to be a better than average nanny.

The employers who pay at the top of of the pay scale usually do want a very specific sets of skills in their nanny. It is often a college education, but not always. It can also be language skills, willingness to travel extensively/have a very flexible schedule, ability to teach and/or play musical intruments, experience with special needs, etc...

Some parents look for a nanny who is trained and experienced in a particular educational philosophy, and will pay very well for it.

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately for nannies, there are few special skills parents want to pay extra for.

Actually, it's even more unfortunate for all the children who get broken English babysitters. Then their parents are surprised about the speech delays.

Connect the dots, people.

Easily solved by having the babysitters speak their native language rather than broken English.

I have a friend who is a linguistics PhD. She told me most of the Spanish speaking sitters in this area, aren't speaking proper Spanish.

So unless you're bilingual, how do you know about their language skills?

Has your PhD friend met "most of the Spanish speaking sitters in this area"?

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately for nannies, there are few special skills parents want to pay extra for.

Actually, it's even more unfortunate for all the children who get broken English babysitters. Then their parents are surprised about the speech delays.

Connect the dots, people.

Easily solved by having the babysitters speak their native language rather than broken English.

I have a friend who is a linguistics PhD. She told me most of the Spanish speaking sitters in this area, aren't speaking proper Spanish.

So unless you're bilingual, how do you know about their language skills?

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately for nannies, there are few special skills parents want to pay extra for.

Actually, it's even more unfortunate for all the children who get broken English babysitters. Then their parents are surprised about the speech delays.

Connect the dots, people.

Easily solved by having the babysitters speak their native language rather than broken English.

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately for nannies, there are few special skills parents want to pay extra for.

Actually, it's even more unfortunate for all the children who get broken English babysitters. Then their parents are surprised about the speech delays.

Connect the dots, people.

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Anonymous wrote:Just like most other fields, there's always "a very few" at the top. The rest are average, or worse. Only the most wealthy can afford the best.

Anonymous wrote:Just like most other fields, there's always "a very few" at the top. The rest are average, or worse. Only the most wealthy can afford the best.

Anonymous wrote:Bumping for parents who are asking how much extra to compensate the nanny for their newborn.