How to pay with a nanny share

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We are about to start a nanny share. We will have the nanny the majority of the time, but she already works for the other family

What I would like to know is how do we practically pay her? Do we pay our share and then the other family pay her separately? Or do we pay and they reimburse us? which seems with tax would make it easier.

How do others do this?

Many thanks.

We were in the same position. Our nanny worked for us 3 days a week, but already worked 2 days a week for another family. In the end, we just paid her separately, after she'd informed HMRC that she would have two employers. It was all very straight forward.

Don't know how it would work if she had been looking after the two families' children simultaneously, though.

Not sure I've helped, or muddied the waters even further

Watching with interest, we may end up in a similar position.

You will all save national insurance if you pay her separately. Assuming you each pay at least £146 a week, from April she will save £17.52 a week and you and the other family £19.87 a week between you.

I really hope you have both agreed gross salaries.

Thank you for your replies. We will have two days where she has all the children for at least parts of the day, so there will be times when that there is cross over.

Oh that's interesting MrAnchovy about the national insurance - thank you.

I had better talk to the other family again, I think.

Has anyone else been in this position?

Is it a nannyshare (where you both employ them at least some of the time simutaneously to care for all your children) or is it two separate employments where there is no time that all the children are cared for by the nanny at the same time?

Oh x-post there. You have the overlap so that's ok. Have you got an agreement in place between you and the other family, as well as individually between yourselves and the nanny?

How you work out costs for those two days of shared care may be the tricky bit. Are you using one house each day?

We're using one house one day, and the other the other day. No, we haven't got a formal agreement - should we have one do you think?

There is going to be 12 hours overlap each week (six hours on two days).

And yes we have a contract but I don't know what contract (or not) they have. Our contract doesn't specify about the sharing actually.

Looking through other message threads about nannyshares may be of help.

example search

Having a formal agreement in place between the families involved is a good idea, some might say it is essential. You need to consider what would happen in various situations like:

Nanny wishes to take their holiday
One of the families wants to take holiday but the other does not.
One of the families wants the children to be taken to a particular activity.
The other family children go to a different school to the school your children attend, yet both schools finish at the same time of day.
The other family wants to end the nannyshare.
The other family wants to change the days and/or hours of the nannyshare.
The other family wants to change arrangements regarding location of care.
The other family wants their children to eat specific things, not the same as your children.

Brilliant, thanks nannynick. That's great and really helpful.