OP, just market this as a job that pays $1520 a week that starts at 7 am Monday and ends at 7 pm Tuesday, for an average hourly rate of $20. Most nannies around here negotiate in terms of a weekly rate, not a base rate and OT. Then specify in your contract that the weekly pay breaks down to $16.18 base rate for the first 40 hours and $24.27 OT for the last 36 hours.

Regardless of what the nannies on this board say, your position will appeal to many people simply because of the high earning potential. However, I'm not sure you'll find many candidates with ten or more years experience plus English as a first language and a college degree. Most people who fit that profile are going to have families or a S/O or be otherwise unwilling to completely detach from their own lives during the week. There's nothing wrong with the job or rate, but you should consider opening the position to nannies with 2 years experience. That will open up a good sized pool of twenty-somethings who are contemplating grad school or otherwise unsettled, many of whom would jump at the chance to earn 80K for what amounts to about 60 hours of actual work and another 48 hours of on call time during which the nanny can basically do what she wants as long as she remains available and in the house. Plenty of twenty-somethings earn less than 80K in salaried positions and they work such long hours that they don't see much of their homes M-F either.

Everything is not about money, I like having my own life too.

I'll do this job, is a great pay and I can do the weekend LI. How can I apply for it?

I think it would be very hard to have someone do 100% of the childcare for 5/7 days, and then have them live in but be unavailable to the child. How do you think the child would react to the person who responds to their every need suddenly not coming if they wake in the night because it's Saturday, or passing them in the hallway without stopping to play.

I also have to say that the characterization of this position as "4.5 days a week" is ridiculous. I work about a 60 hour week right now. By the same math that's a 2.5 day a week position, but I can't imagine ever describing it that way.

People who have 24 hour nannies almost always 7 day coverage. Often times there is not enough room to have multiple nannies living in, hence the reason to vacate the room on your days off.

Frankly, I've always preferred to live out on my days off. 24 hour jobs suck the life out of you as it is, I can't imagine having to stay there and be around on my days off.

I don't understand why the nanny has to vacate her bedroom (is it just a room in your house or a private apartment? It sounded like just a room?) on the weekends? It will have all if her stuff in it, so you couldn't be using the room for some other reason. This is all weird.

Anonymous wrote:I think OP is actually being very generous with pay and benefits. Nannies in this area complain that the wages are too low. There is one MB on this board that is only willing to pay 30k for a non live in for two kids. 80k is a huge amount of money, especially since it's only a 4.5 day job, and food is paid for during those days. That's like an extra $50 a day. Nannies are unskilled labor, no education needed- and to get 80k is amazing! I have a law degree, and I didn't get a job paying over 80k in this area until 7 years after law school.

So when you got that $80k legal gig did you work 108 hours per week every week with no ability to go home, genious lawyer? No wonder it took you 7years! WTF ppl! Geez.

Be sure to ask for Ebenezer.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the point of the nanny having her own place? Only going there on the weekends?

Duh! The point of a nanny having her own place on the weekend is so she has a place to stay on the weekend! She is only live in on week nights- she needs some place on the weekend to stay.

No, the point of the nanny having her own living space for 2.5 days a week is so that the employers can have her at their beck and call 108 hours a week, and then the employers can "live their lives privately" the other 60 hours of the week.

This sort of job situation is always purely for the benefit of the employers.

Anonymous wrote:What is the point of the nanny having her own place? Only going there on the weekends?

Duh! The point of a nanny having her own place on the weekend is so she has a place to stay on the weekend! She is only live in on week nights- she needs some place on the weekend to stay.