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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Having a nanny is a luxury though.
You are not helping parents by making them believe it is easy to find,hire and keep a high caliber nanny at $10 an hour.
A nanny is an expense, better they have a realistic view of what it costs beforehand than jumping into find they are in over their head and then post here desperately looking for a share family or a gift to entice their nanny to stay longer even though they can't afford it

For 10/hr you can get a high school sitter, not a nanny. A real professional nanny can cost double or triple that.

No. A high school sitter gets minimum wage. And there is no such thing as a professional nanny. Nannies are hourly employees.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Having a nanny is a luxury though.
You are not helping parents by making them believe it is easy to find,hire and keep a high caliber nanny at $10 an hour.
A nanny is an expense, better they have a realistic view of what it costs beforehand than jumping into find they are in over their head and then post here desperately looking for a share family or a gift to entice their nanny to stay longer even though they can't afford it

For 10/hr you can get a high school sitter, not a nanny. A real professional nanny can cost double or triple that.

Anonymous wrote:Having a nanny is a luxury though.
You are not helping parents by making them believe it is easy to find,hire and keep a high caliber nanny at $10 an hour.
A nanny is an expense, better they have a realistic view of what it costs beforehand than jumping into find they are in over their head and then post here desperately looking for a share family or a gift to entice their nanny to stay longer even though they can't afford it

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Anonymous wrote:People can get a good nanny for only $15/hour? Im a MB and we started our nanny at $20/hour (split between two families) and gave her a raise to $22/hour after 6 months. In our neigbhrohood East of the Park, nannies almost always start at $18. thats the low end. In some ways you get what you pay for. We love our nanny and want to keep her from leaving for a better paying job!

Actually you sound like an au pair posing as an MB

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Anonymous wrote:People can get a good nanny for only $15/hour? Im a MB and we started our nanny at $20/hour (split between two families) and gave her a raise to $22/hour after 6 months. In our neigbhrohood East of the Park, nannies almost always start at $18. thats the low end. In some ways you get what you pay for. We love our nanny and want to keep her from leaving for a better paying job!

Cut it out with that "you get what you pay for" bull. If you pay a nanny $18 or more then you're wasting money. I see no difference in a $12 vs $18 hour nanny.

Anonymous wrote:People can get a good nanny for only $15/hour? Im a MB and we started our nanny at $20/hour (split between two families) and gave her a raise to $22/hour after 6 months. In our neigbhrohood East of the Park, nannies almost always start at $18. thats the low end. In some ways you get what you pay for. We love our nanny and want to keep her from leaving for a better paying job!

Anonymous wrote:People can get a good nanny for only $15/hour? Im a MB and we started our nanny at $20/hour (split between two families) and gave her a raise to $22/hour after 6 months. In our neigbhrohood East of the Park, nannies almost always start at $18. thats the low end. In some ways you get what you pay for. We love our nanny and want to keep her from leaving for a better paying job!

Anonymous wrote:Nannies, please stop trying to inflate wages beyond their normal $12-14/hr by making inane and repetitive posts on this forum. Even the state in this area will only pay $11.47/hr for people to care for children with special needs through medicare. $14/hr is far beyond generous. And $18, $20, or $22/hr to care for babies sleeping half the day and to do some tummy time is just absurd. Holding out for these rates explains why you are unemployed and sitting on DCUM all day every day.

Thank you friends.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with the original post. Many of the replies on this forum seem to be nannies trying to artificially inflate salaries. Although I do value experience and a responsible individual, at some point the 4 years of exp. And 20 years of exp are about the same. Also, I don't think we are talking about special circumstances where the nanny is fluent in a 2nd language. For the most part being a nanny is unskilled labor which 4 or 5 years experience is as good as 20.

20 years of experience in this field just tells me that nanny has no goals in life and no drive. The max experience I will usually hire is 2-4 years. I don't want a career nanny, they are usually insufferable.

My goal and drive in life is to spend time with the most important people on Earth, your children. Because you don't feel like it. Talk about insufferable. Let me ask you something-when you sit back in your rocking chair at 90 years old, will you have precious memories of deliverables, deadlines and stock options? If so, that's great. I will have memories of playing in the park, laughing til I'm crying, holding your snuggly warm baby, glowing proudly the first time your baby (walked, talked, smiled, laughed, pick one) since you weren't there for it. You post constantly on GP about how difficult it is to raise a child and yet you feel it should be easy for the person who is paid to do it. Honey, you haven't got a clue but at least you've got the money to buy one.

Couldn't have said it better myself!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the original post. Many of the replies on this forum seem to be nannies trying to artificially inflate salaries. Although I do value experience and a responsible individual, at some point the 4 years of exp. And 20 years of exp are about the same. Also, I don't think we are talking about special circumstances where the nanny is fluent in a 2nd language. For the most part being a nanny is unskilled labor which 4 or 5 years experience is as good as 20.

20 years of experience in this field just tells me that nanny has no goals in life and no drive. The max experience I will usually hire is 2-4 years. I don't want a career nanny, they are usually insufferable.

My goal and drive in life is to spend time with the most important people on Earth, your children. Because you don't feel like it. Talk about insufferable. Let me ask you something-when you sit back in your rocking chair at 90 years old, will you have precious memories of deliverables, deadlines and stock options? If so, that's great. I will have memories of playing in the park, laughing til I'm crying, holding your snuggly warm baby, glowing proudly the first time your baby (walked, talked, smiled, laughed, pick one) since you weren't there for it. You post constantly on GP about how difficult it is to raise a child and yet you feel it should be easy for the person who is paid to do it. Honey, you haven't got a clue but at least you've got the money to buy one.