Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 6/9/2005 12:53:00 PM Author: Pat (plcoury@comcast.net) Subject: Live-out Nanny Pay We had a live-out nanny for two years, 2001-2003. We hired her through a nanny service, and she had 5 years of experience working at a child care center in our area. She brought her 4 year old daughter with her, which we preferred to allow our older son to have interaction with a playmate. Living in the DC/Baltimore metro area, we paid her $500/week in 2003, which covered her being in our home for 9 hours per day. We also paid the employer share of her SS, unemployment insurance, and maintained workman's comp insurance through our homeowner's insurance policy. She also had 3 weeks of paid vacation (but note that she NEVER took a sick day and was late only 2 days in 2 years). Her salary would have been slightly higher had she not brought her daughter. In addition to salary, we paid our nanny for mileage when she drove our son to and from preschool, and we paid for her daughter to attend a summer preschool session one year. And we bought toys for her daughter to use at our home (kitchen set, dolls, etc) since we had only boys. The nanny service we used advertises for nanny jobs, with salaries of $10-15/hour currently. As a comparison, when we let our nanny go, we paid about $190/week for preschool daycare for our then 3.5 yr old. The fee is about $210/week now. Infant care at most daycare centers in our area is $330/week minimum. We are in a higher cost area than some parts of the country, but hope this helps provide a frame of reference as you try to determine your worth. I would think two children would warrant a raise, but not double the pay...Keep in mind what other duties you may perform (laundry, dishes) as you consider what you should be paid. It was hard to let our nanny go, but we couldn't justify the cost once our oldest started school full-time and our youngest was ready for preschool. I suggest you check with professional nanny services in the area where you work, to find the going hourly rate. You can pretend you're interested in jobs - even if you aren't. Good luck! Pat Name: Email: Subject

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