Is this an ok salary for a London nanny?

We decided to keep it simple - £8 per hour, w a standard week being 45 hours. Any extra hours to be agreed, and also at £8 per hour. So weekly wage may vary, but will always be £360 in the hand, at a minimum.

Oops - 4 weeks holiday plus bank holidays (written in separate sections of the contract).

Minimum hours are 45 per week (we will pay for every hour worked).

Not sure what you are meaning there... what would be usual is that you pay an Annual Salary (so based on the minimum hours) then pay Overtime for additional hours. You could have an arrangement where by some hours are not overtime... such as 45 hours a week min, then next 10 hours are at normal rate, then anything over that is Overtime. Possibly getting complex though.

Not surprised you found you got quite a lot of interest... it's an annual salary of nearly £25k gross. Sure some nannies could earn more... but in the current market people want jobs, so will settle for whatever will pay their bills.

5,6 weeks holiday, surely? Legal minimum but can include Bank Hols. It should always be written as 5.6 weeks, with an explanatory note that it's normally 4weeks and all Bank Holidays in the contract to prevent any challenge that you're trying to do the nanny out of holiday should you ever need them to work a Bank Hol (eg going on holiday).

We have recently hired a great nanny for £8/hour (+ tax, NI, 4 weeks' holiday and Christmas bonus) to look after 16 month DD and newborn twins (when they arrive). Minimum hours are 45 per week (we will pay for every hour worked). Admittedly its not sole care, but still its a lot of work! I am in Notting Hill area and had a lot of interest in the position, despite the hourly rate. After reading this thread, I feel VERY lucky to have found such a great nanny for the money we are offering (which is all we can afford). And hope this info helps.

She had the summer off too ! - is that one of the nannies trying to distort the market, come on now

My nanny sounds just like yours Gangle and asked for £9 net/hr (which I am paying), I'm in zone 3. So the offer sounds fair to me.

Maybe different where you live but where I am it seems many mums only look for a 3 day nanny so a 4 or 5 day job is harder to come by and very attractive in its own right - far better than a 3 day job paying £10/hr and having to find a day or two of work to make up the difference.

jesus im in the wrong job!!!

No luck on Nannyjob? Really? Have you tried Simply Childcare?

It's only worth paying that sort of agency fee if you have to recruit someone virtually overnight. I can see why people get desperate and do that.

Over £3k agency fee

Crazy.

Golly that's Russia/Middle East salary there! And they're so high cos it's tax free....

£650 net, 2 months off, no sick kids you were paying welllll over the odds.

i still cant see how that was the going rate a few years ago in london

15 gross yes but not 24gross

i think she took you for a right mug

She was a lucky girl for a short period of time
I hope she saved it all up! Not a big chance of finding another like that.

im still at anjes nanny - thats almost £47 gross - or £23.59gph

THUD

'blonde faints'

and why on earth wouldnt she look after ill children, thats the one real bonus of having a nanny compared to cm/nursery

My guess is that if they could afford to pay separate cleaners as well, they didn't mind paying that much. But I do bet the nanny was awfully sad to see that paycheque them go!

Wouldn't you love to know what agency put poor Angie onto this gig?

And did the nanny have a part shareholding in it?!

("If you are very very lucky we might JUST be able to convince her to work for you for round about £45K. But don't hold your breath.")

£17 nett and didn't even look after ill children

for that salary I would expect her to stick a broom up her arse and multitask clean as well

or do you mean £650 gross but still £17gross is a very good wage

Blimey. My nanny works a 60 hour week looking after 3 children sole charge, only one of which is at school. She has 4 weeks off a year plus between Xmas and new year. We do give her a car for sole use. She gets 575 net a week which I am likely to increase to 600 next year so that she is earning £10 net an hour as she has really proved herself since joining us (great qualifications but slightly less experience than I ideally wanted). I am in central London. 650 net for the job described above seems absurd.........

The nanny tax calculator on line doesn't even go up that high, for the gross rate.

Man, she must have been devastated when you moved! And three years' experience.

£650 NET PER WEEK?

I now live in Cambridge but moved up from London a couple years ago. I used to have a brilliant nanny who looked after my then four year old daughter and one year old son, 8.30am through 6pm, four days a week but not when they were sick. She was 26 with three years' experience and First Aid training etc. She didn't do housework (we had separate cleaners to do that) but would cook lunch and make snacks etc, as well as taking them out to the park, cinema etc. We paid her £650 net per week with the whole of July and August off (as that is when we go away) and a car.
This is probably at the high end of the spectrum but we lived in the very center of London and that was roughly the going rate.
Remember you'll also have to factor in Christmas presents, money for grocery shopping and clothes etc if you want her to do that and whether or not you want her to look after your kids when they're sick.
Hope this helps =] xx

I now live in Cambridge but moved up from London a couple years ago. I used to have a brilliant nanny who looked after my then four year old daughter and one year old son, 8.30am through 6pm, four days a week but not when they were sick. She was 26 with three years' experience and First Aid training etc. She didn't do housework (we had separate cleaners to do that) but would cook lunch and make snacks etc, as well as taking them out to the park, cinema etc. We paid her £650 net per week with the whole of July and August off (as that is when we go away) and a car.
This is probably at the high end of the spectrum but we lived in the very center of London and that was roughly the going rate.
Remember you'll also have to factor in Christmas presents, money for grocery shopping and clothes etc if you want her to do that and whether or not you want her to look after your kids when they're sick.
Hope this helps =] xx

£95 net per day = £33,108 Gross per year - tax code 647L.
Employers NI £3506

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