Help!Nannyshare wages with nanny with her own child????

[julinka]

Dear All,

I would like to ask you for advice regards wages for a nannyshare.

I am an experienced nanny with own child and have an interest from two families to look after their children plus mine.

The childcare would be in their houses and we all live in London.

My thoughts are I wanted to ask £9 an hour net when having 2 children(and my own) and £6.50 an hour when having only one of them(and my own).

Do you think this is fair,or am I asking too much?

Also if anyone please know any information regards nanny who works in 2 families and being registered?Is this as a voluntary nanny registration or childminder?I have read somewhere on the net that you could be registered as a childminder even if it is not in your own house.

Thank you for your help.

Julia

You've been given somw great advice by nannynick, you'd do well to follow it.

The reality is even as a childminder you will have to fit around the parents, the red tape is unbelievable. You have to register as a food premisis if you want to provide bottles or meals.

You should charge both families the same, I never had a job where the wage was based on number of children. I understand you wanting to charge slightly less as you are taking your child with you but don't under sell yourself.

I would be more worried about the complications of a job share, holidays, when your child is unwell. If one family wants to swap days. You need to set very firm boundries for both families and make sure you get holiday pay etc sorted out too.

In London you get appr. £10-£12 net an hour for nannyshare but this is without having your own child. When taking your own child to work than you should ask appr. 20% less so should be between £8-£9.6 (net) depending on experience and qualification. I can't say gross as we don't know how they split your tax code and some of the days you'd only have one child from the share meaning that they might receive a bigger percentage of your tax allowance. For one child and your own child I would expect £7.2 (but I have level 4 qualific and 6 years of experience of doing nannyshares with 3 children).

You would be employed by them but I would offer also to contribute towards food (as your child will eat there as well), nappies, etc.

I do a nannyshare with 2 children (soon 3 as baby brother of one of the children will join the share too) and I am Ofsted registered (volunterary).

Regarding if you should charge the families the same price. No. I do a nannyshare 3 days a week with 2 kids and 2 days I only have one child, I charge less on those days. The share is not full time, only part, you can't ask parents to pay the nannyshare rate on those days when you have only one child. This is if you agree at the beginning and it is in your contract.

If one of the families decide not to bring their child on a nannyshare day than they still have to pay you, that's completely different as it is their choice to keep the child at home, you're available to work.

Great.Thank you all for the tips.Have had the interview with them and hmmm,I didn't really like their approach.I made an effort to come to their home and the other family was "busy"(thought that wasn't professional at all).
They had no idea of the legislation law,and haven't even rang HMRC to ask them what to do when employing nanny.

I am not going for it.Have had my share of "nice" families and I don't need it.
Will carry on doing qualification necessary to become a childminder and see what happens.

I know I would find a suitable nannying job very quickly but bringing my own son does narrow down my potential employers.

Oh well.More search to follow

Good to hear that you have decided against this one.

As you say, concentrate on becoming a registered childminder... hope you can find a suitable place to live which enables you to childmind.