Anonymous wrote:When I was younger, I’d take this position. Almost $2000 a month with bonuses and no living expenses? Good deal for a college student whose class schedule suits your needs.

Please recommend someone if you can.

When I was younger, I’d take this position. Almost $2000 a month with bonuses and no living expenses? Good deal for a college student whose class schedule suits your needs.

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Anonymous wrote:everyone who thinks it's ethical to pay someone $7.25/hour should try supporting their own family on minimum wage (before taxes). let's see how quickly they change their tune. if you can't afford a nanny and won't deign to put your child in daycare, then stay home or stay childless. your children are not god's gift to the earth, and if you want someone else to raise them for a living you better make sure it IS a living.

Exactly.

I’m pretty sure her income includes 7.25/hr for a job that includes significant down time between 9-3:30 in her home, since she’s a live in. So that’s 7.25 without having to pay for rent, groceries, or utilities.

i made $20 an hour ten years ago in high school to babysit. saying $7.25 is good for an adult would be laughable if it wasn't so sad. show me the line of "good" people waiting to take this job.

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Oh well then taking home $7.25 changes everything, she’s making excellent money! Everyone should want this position. And based on all the ppl claiming that this isn’t a bad rate OP will have live in nannies breaking down the door. You’d take this position right?

It changes so much! I don’t know what your complaining about. I’d be one of the nannies busting down the door!

Then you should be contacting OP.

Exactly.

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Oh well then taking home $7.25 changes everything, she’s making excellent money! Everyone should want this position. And based on all the ppl claiming that this isn’t a bad rate OP will have live in nannies breaking down the door. You’d take this position right?

It changes so much! I don’t know what your complaining about. I’d be one of the nannies busting down the door!

Then you should be contacting OP.

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Anonymous wrote:People really don’t know squat about taxes. I do taxes for a living and no way someone that makes minimum wage would pay that high in taxes (if it’s a family or single mom likely it would be a credit (they will get paid for working at such a low wage)).

7.25 minimum and posters saying that is 5 after tax don’t know what they are taking about.

Oh so since you know so much please do tell, how much tax would someone making $7.25 pay? Bc they would still have to pay taxes. Sorry but $7.25 isn’t a lot and even if they only paid $.25 in taxes it’s still lowering the take home amount. And the tax credit wouldn’t even be enough to make up for the low wage. Children and families are expensive. COL anywhere is expensive when you are only making $7.25

The employer covers taxes, $7.25 is take home!

Oh well then taking home $7.25 changes everything, she’s making excellent money! Everyone should want this position. And based on all the ppl claiming that this isn’t a bad rate OP will have live in nannies breaking down the door. You’d take this position right?

No, I'm the PP arguing that it's acceptable for a student or brand new nanny with references. FYI, I did take a position at a much lower rate of pay when I was brand new, and I was grateful that the family took a chance on me.

Whoops, you’re* lol

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Oh well then taking home $7.25 changes everything, she’s making excellent money! Everyone should want this position. And based on all the ppl claiming that this isn’t a bad rate OP will have live in nannies breaking down the door. You’d take this position right?

It changes so much! I don’t know what your complaining about. I’d be one of the nannies busting down the door!

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Anonymous wrote:People really don’t know squat about taxes. I do taxes for a living and no way someone that makes minimum wage would pay that high in taxes (if it’s a family or single mom likely it would be a credit (they will get paid for working at such a low wage)).

7.25 minimum and posters saying that is 5 after tax don’t know what they are taking about.

Oh so since you know so much please do tell, how much tax would someone making $7.25 pay? Bc they would still have to pay taxes. Sorry but $7.25 isn’t a lot and even if they only paid $.25 in taxes it’s still lowering the take home amount. And the tax credit wouldn’t even be enough to make up for the low wage. Children and families are expensive. COL anywhere is expensive when you are only making $7.25

The employer covers taxes, $7.25 is take home!

Oh well then taking home $7.25 changes everything, she’s making excellent money! Everyone should want this position. And based on all the ppl claiming that this isn’t a bad rate OP will have live in nannies breaking down the door. You’d take this position right?

Anonymous wrote:how exactly is she making north of fifteen dollars an hour? forty hours of work at $7.25/hour is $290.

if she were making $15 an hour for thirty hours, she would make $450 per week. please, enlighten us to how she is making more than $15 an hour. please.

those who are saying that she is not paying taxes at that low rate are also incorrect. she would make $13,920 a year. she will still owe taxes, including medicare and social security. in new york, for example, she would have an approximately $1600 tax burden (over $1,000 of which is federal/FICA income taxes).

Okay, this is crazy! $7.25/ hour AFTER taxes for 40 hours (and working 30)

$15/hour BEFORE taxes for 30 hours

$7.25*40=290/30=$9.67 AFTER taxes
$15*30=$450 BEFORE taxes

Having made about that last year, no dependents, just myself, my take home per week was $350. 350/30=11.67/ hour AFTER taxes.

It’s not exactly the same. But it’s a heck of a lot better than most people get for their first position. Nobody pays a brand-new live-in nanny $15/hour. It just doesn’t happen without prior references.

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Anonymous wrote:People really don’t know squat about taxes. I do taxes for a living and no way someone that makes minimum wage would pay that high in taxes (if it’s a family or single mom likely it would be a credit (they will get paid for working at such a low wage)).

7.25 minimum and posters saying that is 5 after tax don’t know what they are taking about.

Oh so since you know so much please do tell, how much tax would someone making $7.25 pay? Bc they would still have to pay taxes. Sorry but $7.25 isn’t a lot and even if they only paid $.25 in taxes it’s still lowering the take home amount. And the tax credit wouldn’t even be enough to make up for the low wage. Children and families are expensive. COL anywhere is expensive when you are only making $7.25

The employer covers taxes, $7.25 is take home!

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Anonymous wrote:everyone who thinks it's ethical to pay someone $7.25/hour should try supporting their own family on minimum wage (before taxes). let's see how quickly they change their tune. if you can't afford a nanny and won't deign to put your child in daycare, then stay home or stay childless. your children are not god's gift to the earth, and if you want someone else to raise them for a living you better make sure it IS a living.

23.59 (again). OP is specifically looking for a live-in nanny, so the nanny isn’t going to be supporting a family here, and if she is sending money overseas to family at home? $7.25 USD goes a heck of lot farther there than here.

Most professional nannies wouldn’t be interested. But if OP is willing to take a recent immigrant with little to no English, a college student or someone with zero childcare experience? There are people who would jump for this position. Factor in that it’s paid legally, and it’s $7.25/hour AFTER taxes? It’s a decent starting job for someone.

It’s so sad that you sit here jusifying this position bc someone desperately in need of work would have to “jump” at this position. And actually if it’s paid legally it’s more like $5-$6 an hour. No, this is not a decent starting job. It is a slap in the face and shows the nature of many people who want cheap labor. You keep defending this entitled “MB” bc it shows your character as well.

It's after taxes... That means that gross is closer to $8 than $6. And I took cheap positions when I had no experience and people didn't want to talk to me without references. For a live-in position? It's fine, not great, but fine.

Would you say that to your child who wanted to be a domestic? Be honest.

For a first position? No prior references, stay with the family for a year, then have a great reference? No problem!

OP here. I haven't checked this for a couple days and I'm surprised people are still commenting. Once again, for the record, I pay our current nanny $7.25/hour net. I pay all taxes, hers and ours - we use a nanny tax service that figures it all out, on the books, and does the tax forms. She is legal, has a SSN, and is earning credits. She has no expenses and saves almost all her money to send back to family in her home country. We also give bonuses and many other perks. If she weren't moving out of state, I'm confident she would keep working for us. Contrary to what some have posted, if you knew us in real life, you would know we are actually really nice people and employers.

The reason I posted was to find out the going rate to hire someone else for this role. I appreciate the real answers from those who gave me a range, and yes, I have already stated that I can't afford $20 or more, so I'm looking at various options. Does this make me "entitled" or "low class"? We are an average family looking for childcare, like everyone else. We have unpredictable hours and can't always be guaranteed to get kids from aftercare by 6pm. I'm now looking more into an after school sitter or au pair.

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Anonymous wrote:everyone who thinks it's ethical to pay someone $7.25/hour should try supporting their own family on minimum wage (before taxes). let's see how quickly they change their tune. if you can't afford a nanny and won't deign to put your child in daycare, then stay home or stay childless. your children are not god's gift to the earth, and if you want someone else to raise them for a living you better make sure it IS a living.

The nannies on this board that say this are being so disrespectful. People’s decisions to have children and how they make childcare work is up to them. You don’t want the job, you think it’s beneath you or doesn’t pay enough, fine- move along. People make all sorts of arrangements work- it’s not for you to judge what’s appropriate for another family

You are a hypocrite. You just judged nannies bc they don’t agree with you. You go ahead and treat ppl like trash bc you chose to have children knowing full well you couldn’t afford them. I have no problem judging awful ppl.

Oh my goodness. You sound awful and very bitter. How long have you been out of a job? It must be difficult getting people to hire you with your attitude.

So if someone doesn’t agree with your mentality they must be bitter and jobless. Continually astounded by people on this thread and people who will bend over backwards to justify bad behavior.