Whether or not a nanny can live as she wants, where she wants, on her earned wages is solely the nanny's responsibility. Nanny market rates are what they are because there are many, many nannies who will work for that rate. If there were fewer nannies on the market, demand would rise and wages would rise.

There is nothing unfair in paying a legal wage to someone who agrees to it. The nanny here who keeps complaining on how to live on a certain wage doesn't seem to understand that certain jobs require certain skills and those skills are worth a certain price in the marketplace and that's they way the world works. Nanny skills are common and it's an easy job with many perks.

Don't like it? Find another career.

If the nanny is about 18 and shares her bedroom with a guy, or gal, then she's ok. As long as she doesn't get pregnant. I'd have to fire her.

Anonymous wrote:MONA members - How does your nanny manage on a weekly gross of 650 in northern va?

Why is MONA suddenly mum?

It really is terrible when a family doesn't consider their nanny a person who must make a living wage. Even the one poster on here who so aggressively argues for the worthlessness of the "so called" nanny who deserves nothing more than a fast food wage slave. Depressing.

+1

I think the moms on here have made clear repeatedly that they do not give a damn if nanny can live on what they pay her. They don't care that she spends all day catering to their children and their families while her children are in cheap sketchy unlicensed daycares. It's not their responsibility to worry about whether the rate is liveable or fair. They want the best nanny they can get, pay the least she will allow, and work her for every last dime until she burns out and they replace her.

MONA members - How does your nanny manage on a weekly gross of 650 in northern va?

Are these people doing tax?

Maybe they're forced to live in because they can't afford rent?
Or as someone else said in another thread ( the $15 / hr nanny, I think ) these nannies "rent" a couch somewhere and don't have a car.

Pp, tell us how a live-out nanny can live on $650 weekly gross, in N. VA, and still pay taxes...

Anonymous wrote:From the INA survey

Full time live out nannies in the Washington DC, earn on average $847 per week based on 14 responses.

I suspect these are atypical.

MONA (mothers of n. arlington) did a survey of 100 families who employ nannies and the average was about 650. There were 2 who made much much more. One had 5 charges and the other was a teacher who was teaching the children using the Montessori method.

How much is a good nanny really worth?

It's my impression, from what I understand, that ina nannies are typically agency nannies. Their true market value is depressed so that their agency brokers can make hurried (but inappropriate) matches. Because of this ill-conceived process, these matches often fall apart before the first year is completed.

Seasoned Nanny here.
It has been my experience that it is better to set a weekly rate. I've also found by what most families want to pay, and what other nannies with whom I've spoken make, that most seem to pay $600-$700 week for one child. I have been blessed and have never had a position paying less than $700, and currently make $900/week. My highest paying position was $1200/week, but this was a share, so a little different.
I admire parents who realize that they pay for the care of their treasures, their children. This, at least it is for me, is a chosen career. I'm not a babysitter; I'm a professional who is passionate about children, and thus, I believe I should be payed as such.
That said, my advice would be to pay your nanny what the job is worth. Ask yourself, what would someone need to pay me for me to invest my time, my effort, my passion and my joy into spending most of my day with someone else's child. What you would have someone pay you, you should pay. Best of luck to you in finding a great nanny. Hope all of us have shed a bit of insite...

From the INA survey

Full time live out nannies in the Washington DC, earn on average $847 per week based on 14 responses.