How do I ask for more money

[Grabaspoon]

I have been contacted by an ex mb to do 2 weeks childcare. I am more than happy to do it - lovely parents/charge. In fact I would have stayed if things had been different.

Ex mb has asked me to cover 2 week = aprox 45/50 hours - sole charge. Before I left I was on 12k net per annum live in working the same 45/50 hour week. She has asked if I would do it (the 2 weeks) for £300.

How do I say actually I want at least my last salary of £5 an hour = £500 or nmw of £6 an hour = 600.

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She has asked you if you can do 2 weeks. You respond back that you can and that x amount is how much you expect to be paid. Sounds as though you could be working 90-100 hours, so no wonder you want more than £300.

No wonder you left, if she was paying you so little.
Just tell her that you can earn that in a week doing agency nanny work.
Don't sell yourself short - you do a valuable skilled job.

Just say it. That is what your rate is. She can either agree with it or find someone else.

Are you saying she wants to give you £150 for a 50 hour week?Where are you ?Around here it would be at least £300 a week.Are you living in for this job ?if not you should be getting more anyway than you did previously .I agree with NannyNick just tell her how much you would need for the job.

Thanks for all the replies.

Just to clarify she asked if I could do it to which I replied Yes then received a text to confirm the dates and then she said is £300 ok.

If it's £300 a week then great, but I read that as £300 for the whole 2 weeks.

It would be live in m-f - sole charge of pre-schooler, no other duties.

Just send a text back saying £300 per week is fine and if she was thinking £300 for the fortnight she'll text you straight back. You can then text back about nmw.

£150 may have been the rate when you lived in before, but I am presuming you now have somewhere els you will still have to pay rent/mortgage/running costs for.
If she wants your familiarity and flexibility, then she has to pay the price for it.
If she takes umbrage, then it is she who stands to be in the precarious position. You could go and work those two weeks for a Nanny agency and work for a family who appreciates your professional skills, and are therefore willing to pay a premium for it.
£30 a day to look after her most precious child? It would cost more than that to park her car for a day in central London.
Don't let her take advantage of you, which is what she appears to be doing.

But Emmanana - I was on £300 gross a week before live in. Maybe I amover thinking it and she means £300 a week cash - ie I sort out tax.ni.

Aargh.

She's away till Tues so I have until then to formulate my response :)

I would ignore her 'offer'.
Just send her a clear message stating what your current rate' is.

and remember that you are in the strong position here - getting someone that you trust to cover 2 weeks childcare is a complete nightmare

personally I wouldnt even do it for £300 a week.

Agree text back with £300 / week (if you are happy with that) is fine OR now my rates are X...... and go from there

150 / week = £30 / day = £3/ hour, barely half NMW. [hmmm]