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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:... giving specifics of what you are looking for.

Legal or Off-The-Books?

College graduate or not?

What kind of previous experience and for how long?

Every single time anyone asks what the going rate for a nanny is in any particular area, the same argument starts between the people who will hire an undocumented immigrant for $10 an hour and those who want a legal, college graduate with experience for $25 an hour.

Please just state what you want upfront.

The problem is they want the legal college grad for $10 an hour, they don't want to list specifics because they just want someone to justify that $10 an hour is OK and then they can just apply that to everyone in their mind.

I find it hard to even get parents to pay 10 per hr. I have a college degree and years of experience. I went on an interview a while ago. They wanted to pay less then 2 per hr once I did the math. The mom got so upset when I said my rate was 10 per hr.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even in an anonymous message board, parents do not want to admit that they want a $10/hr illegal nanny to take care of their children and clean their homes. Sad but true. When they get responses that a good and legal nanny is generally twice that cost they get pissed and get equally pissed responses from other MB/DBs who currently employ illegals.

Exactly. It's an illegal, but mostly ignored slave-trade of the Western world.

This.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The going rate for nannies is generally between $15 and $25 dollars an hour. You can only get more specific when you list specifically what you are looking for.

The best nannies earn $30+ per hour now.

Yep. All two of them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The going rate for nannies is generally between $15 and $25 dollars an hour. You can only get more specific when you list specifically what you are looking for.

The best nannies earn $30+ per hour now.

Anonymous wrote:The going rate for nannies is generally between $15 and $25 dollars an hour. You can only get more specific when you list specifically what you are looking for.

Once a week there is a post about "what is the going rate for a nanny is ______ (area)". And the same nannies and same mothers get into the same argument. It really is tiresome.

Tell me about it. Who knows if it's mostly the same wishful bunch, wanting to nail down a non-existent "market rate" for babysitters and nannies.



I've actually seen more MBs who try to drive the cost down by lying about what their nanny is paid or worth. Regardless - it is "tiresome".

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Once a week there is a post about "what is the going rate for a nanny is ______ (area)". And the same nannies and same mothers get into the same argument. It really is tiresome.

Tell me about it. Who knows if it's mostly the same wishful bunch, wanting to nail down a non-existent "market rate" for babysitters and nannies.

Anonymous wrote:Once a week there is a post about "what is the going rate for a nanny is ______ (area)". And the same nannies and same mothers get into the same argument. It really is tiresome.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even in an anonymous message board, parents do not want to admit that they want a $10/hr illegal nanny to take care of their children and clean their homes. Sad but true. When they get responses that a good and legal nanny is generally twice that cost they get pissed and get equally pissed responses from other MB/DBs who currently employ illegals.

Exactly. It's an illegal, but mostly ignored slave-trade of the Western world.