Help - Nanny pay increase? Yes or No? I need your views!

I think a payrise is fair, but I wouldn't automatically expect an increase for an additional child. My contract actually covers caring for all future born or adopted children.

I think she has a fab salary for her hours instead of a payrise could you change her contracted hours to what she is actually doing and in effect she has had a pay rise as its a higher hourly rate?

Is 450 standard London nanny pay? I take it you pay her taxes on top, so 450 is net pay? In which case nearly 2 k net salary per month, plus baby sitting, is very generous. The holiday, and the reduced hours are nice perks indeed.

I think she has a fantastic deal already, and I am sure she knows it.

I personally would not give her a payrise, but that would just be me being bitter - neither me nor DH got one for 2 years running.

Although I would make sure she knows the reason.

The fact that you don't use her for babysitting as often as contracted and give her 10 weeks holiday are of your choosing not hers.

Therefore I think its proper and right that you should give her a pay rise.

However if and when you do have another DC, which unless you are very lucky and it happens straight away, is unlikely to happen this year, I'm not sure that this in itself would warrant a pay rise. Nannies are contracted and paid for hours, not by number of children as far as I'm aware.

Wow- she's appreciated and she gets a great salary. She sounds like she's get a nice job there, LittleOneMum. No real views on whether she should get a pay rise- are you and your partner (if any) getting one? Maybe you could put her salary up by the same proportion?

sorrento as I posted did think the economics differnet of nanny to nursery...

Unfortunately the fact is in a recsession those who keep their jobs end up paying more for everything to cover the losses of the parents who've taken their children out of the nursery due to job loss and to ensure the rising costs of food and bills are still covered without affecting the nursery owners standard of living.

northernlurker - I agree completely that good childcare worth paying for . What I'm more puzzled about is at what point the economic crisis filters down to all levels (incl your nursery alto presumably demand not affected there hence nursery owners need to keep good staff). I can only speak from my own very limited experience but it is definitely true that there are nannies out there looking for work at present as jobs have been lost/hours cut due to fact to fact same has happened to families they are working for. What i'm slightly more bemused about is fact why would pay for nannies not have same thing happen (ie pay freeze/market rate rise) that happens to rest of us?

although this is not very helpful to original poster..

Just thought about it a bit more and I would definately put it up - I use a nursery and they've just put the fees up. The owner was very apologetic about doing so in the current climate - but she needs to keep the good staff she has and pay is a key way to do that. I don't grudge it because childcare that you are happy with is worth far more than the financial impact of the raise.

i'd at least change something about the contract if not a payrise - add some kind of perk so she knows you are pleased with her. but if you can afford it would give small rise as you suggest.
i just gave ours a payrise which we cant really afford (i've got a pay freeze this year) but we love her and she's earned it.

guess it depends on what the contract says?

does it say annual payrise

10weeks holiday is very nice and very generous

she is on a good salary £90 a day for those hours - why do she do those hours if contracted are longer?

why do you pay extra for bs if the terms of the 10weeks holiday are for 2 bs a month?

i know not every one gets an annual payrise but I always have, as well as an increase in salary when nb comes

If you want to keep her I think you should put her salary up. Most people expect a yearly cost of living increase at the very least. I think that if you don't put it up she will feel you don't appreciate her and she will go elsewhere.

Why isn't she working her contracted hours - is that yor choice - because if so it's hardly her fault. If you want to increase her salary but reduce her hours to what she actually works I think that would be fair enough - but you will lose the flexibility you presumably currently have.

10 weeks holiday is plenty - but as she can only two weeks at her discretion it's not that much of a plus is it really?

I think the fair thing is to put her wages up so that their value stays the same.

it doesn't sound unfair in circs and in the current economic circumstances (most of the rest of us wont be getting a payrise ) but if you're not giving payrise then some kind of bonus, take babysitting claues out would be sensible.

but I'd talk to your nanny about it - what were your dicussions/her expectations re pay review.

and ten weeks holiday is A LOT.