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Nanny bonus'

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cherub59 · 22/11/2011 07:03

Coming up to that time of year again just wondering what you pay your nanny as a discretionary bonus or if you are a nanny what you expect?

We have varied what we pay depending on performance but wondered whether we have over paid as we feel dependent on our nanny to enable us both to do pretty demanding jobs!!! Plus times are a bit tighter at the moment!!!

This is the first Christmas with our new nanny so don't want to set a needlessly high precedent but do want to give her a good bonus for doing her job well

What do you pay/expect to receive?

We also give a small pressie from the kids....

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ButHeNeverDid · 22/11/2011 12:00

Wish I got a cash bonus from my employer.

I will of course be giving one to my Nanny as it seems to be expected and I do not want to sour the relationship. But it does strike me as odd.

kate2289 · 22/11/2011 11:52

I've been, a spa day for my birthday and a small present from the children. At christmas I got £100 and small present from children, also when doing extra during the festive period I got a bit more for babysitting than I normally would get.

HappyAsEyeAm: You sound like a wonderful boss to have :) !!

HappyAsEyeAm · 22/11/2011 09:37

There have been a few threads on this recently - in relation to annual/Christmas/one off bonuses. I have gleaned that there are no hard and fast rules about bonuses or presents, and that some nannies receive nothing at all (how mean), some receive a gift but no bonus, some receive a cash sum and a small gift, and some receive a very generous cash sum. One nany posted that she received a week's wages, which I think is incredibly generous (but I am not in a position to offer that myself).

I can only tell you what I do. I give our nanny a small present from DS (some chocolates or similar) and £100 in vouchers for a store she shops in. She works for us 3 days a week btw, and we think she's ace.

She also gets more than her contractual entitlement of paid holidays throughout the year, £100 for her birthday, and this year (for the first time ever, as she had been with us for a year and such an enormous improvement over our previous nanny that we wanted to reward her) a £300 bonus in the summer. This is more than we used to give our previous nanny, but our current nanny is fantastic.