What is the right price per hour to pay a nanny in London

I pay £9 per hour net in London for a nanny with 8 years experience and very good references. We negotiated it down from £10 per hour because she doesn't have to travel to us and also because it is very much an employers market at the moment. I think good references are far more telling than qualifications - I interviewed other nannies with quals who were clearly far less competent.

I would definitely try to negotiate given the market - there are more nannies than jobs atm.

However, if you want a French nanny then you may find you have to pay the £10 per hour and can't negotiate because that is a specific skill that she offers that most other nannies in the market can't provide.

Is she working full time or part time? You will probably pay more per hour for a part time nanny (as they have to find another job and/or survive on fewer days work) than you would for a full time. Iit is a full time position thet £13 would be £34k per year which I think might be a bit much, but £13 gross per hour for say a 3 or 4 day week may be reasonable.

Nannies generally work a 50 hour week.
That's the problem with negotiating hourly rates for permanent 0.6 jobs! It grosses up at a huge amount!

BoffinMum - doesn't £13.10 an hour mean just over £27,000 for a standard 40 hour week?

louii when I first qualified I was on less than that an hr as a nurse my gross hrly wage is now £14 an hr well just under so still less than that.

I ad-hoc nanny/night nanny and charge from £10 an hr and I am a qualified childrens nurse with a huge range of experience and am in east midlands.

A newly qualified nurse only earns £16,000 a year and now I can see why so many nurses just do the course to get a "free" degree and then go into other fields of work - many childrens nurses qualify and nanny now I know why!!!

I feel yes this nanny has got 10yrs experience however you could get a very qualified and experienced nanny for £10 net an hr in london its currently an employers market and you need to agree a gross wage which at that rate as you say is around £13 an hr maybe negotiate a gross wage of £11.50-£12 an hr with a pay review in 6mths time?

you could try to negotiate but £9-10/net is about what I've been finding in SE London for nannies with 5-8 years experience, and as high as £13/net for 20+ years experience. (prices for a share.)

It grosses up at about the equivalent of £34,000 a year, i.e. the top of the teachers' pay scale for Inner London for a professional with Qualified Teacher Status, who has studied for 3-4 years and worked for 6. Is she really worth that?

Yes, sounds about right for someone with her experience. London wages are quite high, and you normally pay more for part time hours. You could probably find a newly qualified or inexperienced nanny, or maybe one bringing her own child, for £8 net an hour.

I am a qualified nurse and get paid about that.