so how much does a nanny cost per hour, roughly?

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my mothers help isnt coming back after my maternity leave as she is starting her own business - good for her, bummer for me. I need a nanny for my baby and two other kdis in holidays, how much roughtly do you pay (I am in SW england if that makes a difference)

Will it be full-time?

I think part time often more expensive, The going rate up here is £350 to £450 a week for full time but more if you have to do by the hour.

Try calling some agencies in your area they should be able to advise

It really does depend on the area, in my area in the South East the rough price guide is £200 up to £300 a wk

Ours is part-time, and we pay her by the hour - she started off as a Mothers Help but has loads of experience, so is really a Nanny (just not 'trained').
She started at £8pph then we upped it to £9pph after a year - the upper end of pay in our area of London (yes, area makes a big difference apparently), but she's worth every penny.

Actually, I haven't got a clue what the official difference is between Mothers Help and Nanny: I'm sure its not to do with experience at all!

I was reading it as she needs a nanny for dd3 who will also look after the other 2 in holidays. Is this not so?

Yes, I read it like that too.

I would say that typical cost of a nanny, is £10 per hour. Area does vary though, so London is higher.
Note: This figure is cost to Employer, not nannies take home pay.

How I calculated this
My gut feeling was firstly that £10 sounded right. Then I checked on the Salary Guide.

A salary guide is published yearly by Nursery World in conjunction with a sponsor. The latest salary survey can be found here .
According to the salary table, average for outside of London, for a Daily Nanny is a little under £23,000 gross.

As employer of a nanny, you would need to add Employers NI on to this figure. Using the UKPAY online calculator, with gross salary of £23000, Employers NI is just under £3000.

So working with these figures: £26,000 per year cost. If working 50 hours per week, total hours per year (including 4 weeks paid holiday) is 2600. £26000 / 2600 hours equals £10.00 per hour.

i got my part time nanny nannyjob who are great. Costs £8.50 an hour but I average it over the whokle year inc hols (when she does more hours) and it's managable. try gumtree. For babysitting try findasitter

nannynick - are you sure about that? that sounds like an awful lot of employers ni. I pay my nanny £6 net. on top of that I pay somewhere in the region of £3,200 a year total tax, employees ni and employers ni. she works 36 hours a week = 1872 hours a year. total cost per hour is therefore £6 plus (3200/1872 = 1.7) = £7.70. £6 net is quite cheap - she's quite young and unqualified - in fact this was her first nanny job - she'd only worked as an au pair before that. I don;t think you get someone either qualified or experienced for £6 - and with a baby I'd defintiely want at least one of those

Ah, silly me selected the wrong option on the UKPAY calculator. Mind you, selecting the right pay option (Yearly), results in Employers NI of £2299.52 for Employee Gross salary of £23,000. so NI was only £700 out

Depends where you live. Although London for example is expensive and I think I pay for part time £8.75 an hour, there are loads of workers, huge supply, lots of Polish girls etc and then you get bits of the country where there just are no people looking for any work.

We certainly found with a lot of children that having a nanny was the cheapest option.

yes, it does depend on where you live and how experienced your nanny is or you need. for someone looking after a little baby i'd pay more i think. mine (part time but 8.50 an hour) is quite expensive around here but I think great value, very reliable and i'm not sure how we managed without her. trying to get her approved childcarer status but that's proving really horrendous process (see other thread). She brings her little boy aged 3 and that's good too. and i use nannytax because they take the hassle oyt of it and i know she gets her due that way. some people i know pay an official salary and top it up unofficially but i couldn't do that myself

Make sure you agree gross salary and get advice if they have more than 1 job as the tax is different. We had loads of hassle over tax codes, only sorted out with nannypaye's excellent help.
We have paid >£10ph gross inc employer costs for an experienced Norland type, and now pay about £8ph for a qualified but inexperienced nanny (who by the way is much better for my kids than her allegedly better trained and experienced predecessor!)