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Nanny share $ Q
I'm considering going into a nanny share with a friend. She has been using the nanny for several months. Nanny is at her house and is caring for their now 11mo old. When the kiddo is asleep the nanny does light housework like vacuuming up after the dogs etc to keep the kid zone clean. If we go in with the nanny share, we would be bringing out 3mo old over to their house. Just wondering if anyone has any input on how much we should pay for the share. Our friends currently pay $10/hr I think (it's 4hr, 4day/wk). Not sure what is reasonable as our kid will require more attention (ie more frequent feeds and diapers) but it's not at our house.
Also anyone who has done a nanny share, do you have any things that DH and I should think about before we sign up? It feels like a nice way to get some part time care so I can have a little time off to try to work again and this way we don't have to find our own nanny.
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Re: Nanny share $ Q
We have a nanny share. Legally, you need to pay the nanny at least minimum wage for your part. Is your friend paying taxes or paying cash? Given the rate, I'm guessing cash. I would not agree to anything that doesn't involve taxes by both parties, but that's me.
We host and our nanny does a few things around the house - but nothing like vacuuming. But we also provide things like diaper genie refills that the other family doesn't reimburse us for. Our utilities are also marginally higher because the girls are there all day. We split the hourly rate of our nanny evenly.
Make SURE you and your friend have similar ideas about parenting/naps/schedules etc. I actually didn't want to do a nanny share with a friend b/c I wanted to feel comfortable saying something to the other family if something wasn't working for us. That said, we're both pretty laid back - which was what I was looking for. It would not have worked if the other family would have, for example, wanted their child to be a strict schedule. We just never got there with DD.