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Pay range for in-home care?
Sorry I've been on a pretty tight bump hiatus lately and have been mostly lurking. Almost one year old...new job...grad school....ugh so busy. But I thought you all might be able to offer some assistance.
XPing from Working Mom's board - We are interviewing nannies to work in our home part time to take care of our one-year-old. I'm sure it has been talked about before but I can't find anything in the search on rates.
We are looking at
just care from 12 - 5...lunch, nap, snack, play. Some of the providers
have mentioned that they will do light cleaning, errands, meal prep for
Baby Bix, and hopefully his laundry (cloth diapers and regular clothes.)
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Re: Pay range for in-home care?
Our nanny started at $10/hr and over the course of 2.5 years (i.e. pay raises) and adding another child, she's now making $11.38/hr. I don't think the number of hours per day matters in her pay since you typically pay them an hourly salary that doesn't have to do with the number of hours they work, except that over 40 hrs/wk, you technically need to pay them time and half. We took out all taxes last year for her (state, federal, unemployment, medicare, social security, etc.) so her take home pay was of course less than $11.38/hr.
She prepares meals, cleans their laundry and diapers, and takes the girls to their activities. She uses our car so I don't reimburse her for mileage but if she used her own car, you should reimburse her (we did before she started using our car). I don't have her do any other housework, although sometimes she will on her own (empty the diswasher) without me asking. I figured I hired her to take care of my children, not clean my house.
Hope this helps. Good luck!
Edit: And she cleans up after the girls and does their dishes used during the day but not our dishes, etc.
Where could I find someone like this on a very part time basis? Like 2 Mondays a month for about 6-8 hours? Craigslist kind of freaks me out for something like this. Has anyone had luck on there? Is there an agency you could recommend?
Thanks. Sorry to hijack the post. =}
Meredith College has a listing area specifically for child-care. Here is the link.
You will fill out the form for child-care (it is a Word Doc.) and then email it to the email address provided on the link page. I did it one night and by the next day they confirmed it had been posted AND I had someone email about the job I advertised! It was QUICK!
We just hired someone to pick up Chloe from school for after the baby comes through this site. I am also posting just for a babysitter as well. GL!
I also found our nanny on craigs list. I just always post under the education section instead of the normal jobs section. I three women I chose to interview were all quite pleasant and would have been pleased with any of them watching our girls. The one we did hire has a degree in early childhood education so that is obviously a plus.
I will say I got like 30responses to our ad. I easily weeded most out though based on spelling/grammar and I don't mean your average typos. I also weeded out the ones that were obviously just looking for any job versus really wanting to work with children.