Nanny rates and contracts
Hi parents!. We just found a part time nanny and we wanted to understand current market rates, what is fair to pay for driving as part of her duties, and how vacation / holidays off work in terms of compensation. We need her for 25 hours per week. She’s mainly watching our 3 years old and would have a one hour overlap with our 2nd child but we would be around. She is responsible for picking our older child from school solo using her car and the school is 6 miles away from orinda. This gig is guaranteed until june. What is a fair compensation package? I’d really appreciate it if you could share any intel. Thank you! Nezha
Moderator Note: See 2021 Nanny Survey: Pay & Benefits and Compensating Nanny for Driving
Jan 11, 2022
Parent Replies
For driving, we have always used the IRS guideline for reimbursement based on miles. We never paid for the nanny’s commute to our house abs calculates the miles from our house to the destination and back to our house unless we authorized the nanny to take the kids to another location at our request. Our nanny brought kids to her house sometimes to be with her kids and we did not pay for those miles as it her at her request and a mutually beneficial arrangement.
For pay rate, it really depends on the person’s experience and the type of duties. I think $20-25 per hour is a minimum standard pay. I have had some people ask for $28-30 especially if they used to be a preschool teacher or have unique and desirable experience or took on mother’s helper/housekeeping duties in addition to childcare.