£90 a week for live-in au pair in central Ldn. Still going rate?

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We have been offering £90 a week to our au pairs (plus free mobile) for a few years now and as we start recruiting the next one I thought I'd better check the market rate!

The tasks are: after-school pick-up, playing/supervising homework, cooking dinner for DC, 2 nights' babysitting a week. No housework.

How does that sound?

Sounds right. I am zone 2 and am offering £80 plus travel card (bus only) for 20 hrs.

Sounds right. We are zone 2, 23 hours and 2 babsittings but three days off. We pay £85 as do all our local au pair employing friends.

That sounds like a nice job, OP! Just my idea of what an au pair position should be - a few hours childcare per day and no housework! I hate it when people start turning au pairs into fulltime cleaners, nannies and general factotems!.
I'm sure you'll have plenty of applicants!

That sounds like a nice job, OP! Just my idea of what an au pair position should be - a few hours childcare per day and no housework! I hate it when people start turning au pairs into fulltime cleaners, nannies and general factotems!.
I'm sure you'll have plenty of applicants!

Great - £90 it is then! The downside is having to go through the 150 applications...

We just offered 85 for next Sept. We pay half of English lessons and let them use a bike. Just into zone 3. Similar sounding job to ours. We have a nice young man coming...part time gendarme!

I'm finding the search v tiring. I had 400 applicants on au pair world and still haven't found 'the one.' Sifting through them was a nightmare.

We pay 100 per week and offer gym membership. We wanted to pay more than going rate to attract good applicants. So far it has worked.

Bargain! I used to be paid £50 a week for looking after 3 kids (in the suburbs of London). School drop offs and pick ups, cleaning, ironing (including bed sheets every week!), cooking and I would often get roped in to do various bits of gardening or helping at birthday parties at the weekend. Admittedly it was a few years ago but still, I was such a mug!

I was paid 200francs, ie about 20...some 20 years ago in rural France. That was for full time childminding...I was a mug. Particularly as they only paid me once and I was there 6 weeks.

That wouldn't happen now!

I am in London zone 4 (but very easily to commute to central London).
So 90 per week all inclusive?
Should I bother offering free phone, or bus pas (not needed for direct duties), or free use of my car if it is not needed for direct duties? Should I pay for car insurance if it is only for their occasional leisure use?

I am London Zone 2/3.

I pay £100 a week, plus gym membership (£40 a month) and use of car etc.

Oh wow citytocountry For how many hours and what duties?

Hi zone 4 here with an au pair plus which is 35 hours, we also provide bike and mobile with free uk calls and unlimited data. Light cleaning with the emphasis on light ie tidy kids rooms £100 a week and 170 applicants