https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 22 May 2026 15:30:35 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482882 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 11:12:12 +0000 winniebee 2482882@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: that's so interesting! If our nanny was full time, I'd do a salary, I think. Since she's 30 hours (plus the odd date night) hourly works well, I think. For now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482871 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 11:07:21 +0000 Anagram 2482871@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sorry, just to go into this further, because I find it fascinating. When the nanny survey came out (and it has over 1000 participants, so I think it's a good sample size), it also showed that nannies tend to get paid a weekly rate rather than an hourly rate, and that the hourly rate when down the more hours a nanny works.</p> <p>So a nanny working 50 hours a week would make less per hour than a nanny working 15 hours a week. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482862 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 11:02:58 +0000 Anagram 2482862@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We pay a weekly rate of about $750. In our particular town, I was super surprised to see what nannies actually go for, because unsuspecting moms post on our local moms group, and 90% nannies answer and inflate the rate a bit. But my town, it's very common to start a nanny at $14-$15 and then give raises if they stay with you a long time.</p> <p>When I interviewed nannies, I interviewed 3 in a row that had worked for other families in our town that were being paid $15 for 2 kids. All under the table. The last local nanny survey shows that 92% of the nannies in our town are paid under the table.</p> <p>eta: I live outside NYC. Oh and I should clarify that the $750/ week is for 1 kid 3 days a week, 8-4:30 pm and two kids 2 days a week 7:30-4:30 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482798 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 10:32:56 +0000 winniebee 2482798@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Trailmix: wowsa!! Ours is 17 for two, but the older is at school 830-330 on 2 of the 3 days she is here. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482777 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 10:21:12 +0000 Mamaof2 2482777@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I pay just over 1K per month for DCP for DD which equals out to about $5 an hour-</p> <p>So yeah, paying $15-$20 an hour -that's like 3k-4k a month YIKES!!!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482650 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 09:32:55 +0000 Trailmix 2482650@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh, we live in NYC and ours is on the higher end of the pay scale but it comes out to almost $25/hour for two kids. KILL. ME. NOW. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482520 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 08:26:07 +0000 JoJoGirl 2482520@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>$18/hr going rate in Boston and suburbs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482495 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 08:10:05 +0000 travellingbee 2482495@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>$10/he is what we paid </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482448 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 07:03:47 +0000 knittylady 2482448@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have someone for 8-10 hours a week and do 15 for two kids. She set the price and I was grateful. I figure we'll be giving her a raise after the year mark. It feels a bit low as it is and we just love her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482396 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 01:39:36 +0000 HabesBabe 2482396@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>$10/hr for two under 4, in Orange County, CA. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482377 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 23:58:06 +0000 youboots 2482377@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was a nanny almost 10 years ago in a suburb of Portland. I was paid $12-13 a hour. One child, no additional chores- but he was no longer napping. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482364 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 23:36:25 +0000 SweetiePie 2482364@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>NYC. Range for 1 kid is $15-$20/hr.<br /> We started her at $15/hr (actually she quoted that rate to us). At her 1 year anniversary we raised her to $17/hr because we felt she deserved a raise and she was worth more than the minimum to us.</p> <p>We will probably give her a small bump each year going forward until she hits the highest end of the scale. (But I can't see having her more than two more years anyway). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482357 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 23:26:48 +0000 Mrs Spoon 2482357@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our nanny was paid $22 for two kids. Live in Seattle, WA. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482333 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 22:54:17 +0000 jape14 2482333@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are in a nanny share and don't pay our nanny hourly (just a set monthly salary, paid every two weeks), but it works out to slightly over $16/hr. I'm in a medium-sized (?) city in the South. We gave her a raise on her one-year anniversary - the raise was also in terms of her monthly salary but it worked out to a little over $1/hr extra, which seemed to be fairly standard from my internet research. </p> <p>We use a service called Savvy Nanny to handle the taxes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482324 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 22:29:46 +0000 regberadaisy 2482324@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't have a nanny but I know a teacher that just left daycare to nanny for a family for $12/HR. Upstate NY, not westchester upstate! :P </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482320 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 22:25:03 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2482320@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We pay $15 net plus transit.<br /> DH's accountant figures the taxes out.<br /> We are in downtown Toronto. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482303 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 22:01:00 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 2482303@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't have a nanny but I was one! I live in Houston. My last job I was paid $10 an hour (it was only 2 years ago so I don't feel that it's too off base to chine in here) and I was paid under the table.</p> <p>ETA: I also took car of laundry, vacuuming, mopping the kitchen, dishes, etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482286 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:46:43 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 2482286@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: we've always one under the table so no...3 kids is definitely a different ball game! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482267 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:29:51 +0000 LBee 2482267@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: She does it as part of our taxes, so all I know is we pay a total of $750 for our taxes and help with the nanny + some other things. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482256 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:22:30 +0000 winniebee 2482256@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LBee: that's great. so your accountant does your nanny taxes for you too (i.e., tells you what to pay on quarterly basis?) Do you mind me asking how much it costs? Homepay isn't cheap. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482254 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:21:42 +0000 LBee 2482254@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: our accountant figures it out for us - we just agreed she would net $15. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482251 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:20:15 +0000 winniebee 2482251@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LBee: after taxes, interesting! We do $17 / hour and then take out necessary taxes (paid over the table thru homepay). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482250 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:19:39 +0000 winniebee 2482250@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs Green Grass: we do a bonus at Christmas time, but I'm thinking a small raise at her anniversary, particularly because she could be watching 3 kids for certain hours of the week. Do you say "gift" so it's not taxed? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482248 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:18:37 +0000 LBee 2482248@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>$15 per hour after taxes. We haven't given her a raise, but usually give generous bonuses. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482240 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:15:19 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 2482240@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>15/hr San Diego. We haven't had a nanny longer than a year, but I would potentially give small raise...or maybe a monetary "gift" instead. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-do-you-pay-your-nanny#post-2482234 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:13:09 +0000 winniebee 2482234@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How much do you pay your nanny? Bonus points for telling me where you live! We live in the Portland, ME, area, and the going rate for nannies was $16-18/hour it seemed. We pay ours $17/hour, but she is part time. She watches both kids for certain hours of the day, but the older goes to preschool for a large chunk of the time she is here. So, she does laundry, tidies up, and is just generally fantastic at keeping things organized. She's been with us 6m and hasn't asked for a raise, though I think we will give one at her anniversary. </p> <p>How much do you pay your nanny? </p>