nanny staying overnight - what to pay???

[itsybitsy]

We have a part-time nanny who looks after our baby of 10 months and little boy of 5 after school, just on 1 or 2 days a week. It is a really flexible arrangement, she likes to do bit of extra work and makes a change from her other 3 days working in a nursery.
I have asked her if she's be happy to stay overnight so me and DH can go away but we've no idea what to pay and she hasn't a clue what to ask for!
We pay her £6.50 an hour for her nanny time and £5 an hour for babysitting time. If shes putting the children to bed as part of babysitting I always count that as nanny time and only start babysitting rate at 8pm after they're well in bed. We would be going away from lunchtime one day, to lunchtime the next - a full 24 hours, but during the week perhaps so she doesn't need to work on weekend, or maybe a friday. Am just clueless about how to cost this up!

most nannies i know would charge a minmium of £100 per 24 hours (weekdays). (but thats normally per 24 hours of a week away) therefore probably more as a one off! many i now do NOT charge less while they are asleep.

I would say

14 hours at nannying rate of 6.50 = £91
6 hours sleeping at half bbsitting = £15
4 hours babysitting = £20
TOTAL £141.... call it £150!

Thanks a lot NannyL - really helpful

We used to pay our Nanny who worked 2 days a week for us at a rate of $6.50/hr during the days she worked. When we went away on a trip, we would pay her her normal rate from 6am - 8pm and then $5/hour from 8pm - 6am.

Interestingly, I was just in touch with a London Nanny Agency to get rates for sole care of our two boys when we want to go away this June and was quoted £80-£90/24 hours. We are planning to be gone a week. Hope this helps.

i cant believe they would quote £80 - £90 for 24 hours (not that i dont believe you. more that its shocking!!!)

minimum wage would make it £121.20 for a start

only 6 hours sleeping, nannyL?

Personally id say until midnight counts as babysitting (whether or not she choose to sleep) then "sleep" until 6am when most children start waking up!

A few people i know would charge the full nannying rate for anytime in the night that they were awake with the kids! (be it 1 minute ir 1 hour!)

I think £80-£90 sounds about right, £100 is generous. I would personally think £150 is too much as for 6-8 hours she will be asleep! (& hopefully so will the kids!) although before anyone says it, I know she will still be responsible for them.......

As a maternity nanny and temporary nanny i charge £130 per 24 hours and should parents require 28 hours lets say the extra hours are charged at £7.

I have been nannying for over 16yrs now and am self employed.

Hope that helps.

The £130 is before i have paid my tax and ni out of it.

I think at least £100 is reasonable, what would you expect to be paid for doing your current/old job for 24 hours straight????? She may well get a night of uninterupted sleep but sleeping does not equal off duty.

Whenever I've done an overnighter, I've never slept well anyway, every little noise makes you wake with a start, suppose you'd get used to it if you did it all the time, or maybe it's just me!

I would say at least a 110, I have never been paid less than that, but never more than 150 either(depending on family).

I've been out of nanny for 18months now (since having my boys) so I'm not sure of the current rate but about 5 yrs ago I looked after 2 children from 2.00pm until 10.00am the next day (so only 20 hrs) and was paid 120 pounds, things will have gone up since 5 yrs ago so not sure about 80 pounds for 24 hrs.

Twinmummy04

Thanks everyone for contributing. That gives me and the nanny a really good starting point - she won't take too much as she'd feel uncomfortable and I wouldn't want to pay her too little as I do want her to leap out of bed at the first sign of crisis! Not sure I'm going to sleep while away with thoughts like that!

My p/t nanny is going to do an overnight for us in april. I plan to pay her the normal hrly nanny rate until midnight, then our agreed babysitting rate from 12-6am.

We're actually away for 32 hours 2pm saturday - 8pm sunday so in total she'll get £144. I thikn i'll actulaly round it up to £150 in case we run late or he wakes up!

Oh and if it makes you feel any better the reason we're doing this is because th elast time littleli stayed at grandparents overnight they forgot to set the monitor. It mgiht cost us more but i'd rather have someone I can rely on plus if she does forget I can say something about it! with GP's doing a favour its alot harder. Now I just have to work out a way to tell the GP's!

I used to charge £60 overnight, after normal nanny day had ended, say 8pm, if that what you normally do until say 7am, then her normal pay would resume.