£12 net per hour??

[AnimalsTwobyTwo]

I've interviewed a nanny who is asking for this salary for a 4 day week. We are London zone 2.

Do nannies get this salary in this area? She is older and very experienced, fab references (although no qualifications). Seems like an awful lot to me. I was thinking max £11 net.

I think £11ph is at the lower end for zone 2. £10-£12 outer London. £12-14 central London is the going rate for a very experienced nanny.

You can offer her the £11 and she may still take the job if she likes it enough, but if she needs £12 to pay her bills, then that's what she needs.

Sounds about right to me - we are zone 3 and pay that for a babysitter. I thought Nanny salaries were generally done on a per annum basis, not hourly? If its set hours every week?

How many kids? Round here (zone 2/3) its more depending on number of children

Blimey, thanks Outraged. We paid our last nanny £11 per hour, and can't decide if it is worth stretching ourselves for this potential new nanny at £12 per hour. She seemed fantastic and tbh we are struggling to find someone.

Maybe compromise at £11.50?

I'm in Zone 3 and pay £10 net per hour, on the assumption that this is the only job or a split tax code - I'm not subsidising someone else's part time nanny. Obviously the contract has a gross sum.

My previous nanny came to me with a demand for £12 net (after a year) as that was "the going rate" - so I did a quick survey of all my friends and found that I was the most generous payer among then. Offer what you can afford and she either takes it or not.

I pay just over £10 net (gross of £13ph) for a very experienced nanny, zone 2. 4 days per week which actually seems to be a positive IME. £12 net is going some! I'd expect that in central London/for v unsociable hours etc, not for run of the mill hours.

Some nannies say they want/earn that but seems the average is £10nett no matter if a nanny of 10yrs exp or like me 24yrs exp

Offer what you want and can afford - she will either accept it or not

Suprised you havnt had lots of interest if in central London

What is your job spec?

Yes hours are normal 8-6.30, 2 children, no special requirements either. I think if we were to offer 11 per hour and she accepted I might be worried she would be on the look out for a £12 per hour job and leave us when she found one! So maybe it's a non starter.

Weird. Don't know why struggling to find a nanny. Have you seen many but don't click - or havnt seen many at all

Are you doing alone or through an agency?

I can't see why you aren't finding people. I had very specific requirements (driver, own car) was only two days a week and a lot of driving involved - from childcare.co.uk had lots of interest and interviewed 3, any of whom I coudl have appointed. Have you tried looking through there or just agencies?

I agree I'd rather find someone who was happy with the salary. I think this nanny is trying it on.

Advertise the job at the salary you want to pay and who applies.
If no one does then you could get back to this applicant and see if they would accept less.

I'm hiring a friends nanny for a few hours a week on her day off - I was going to offer £10 per hour net - I thought that was normal! Isn't it?

When did salaries become so insane? I am a nanny and last time I looked for a job (2years ago) it was 10£ per hour for an experienced/qualified nanny in London zone 1-2

Well good for me, I'll know for next time

I am a nanny and charge £12 net (zone 2) per hour. I am posting only because I find it so frustrating that people think that this is excessive!
Nannies take care of the most precious people in parents' lives and yet some parents find £12 per hour outrageous. I know many, many parents who pay their cleaners at least £12 and often £15 around here without it seeming extraordinary; just seems a little odd to me!

Crafty Do you consider yourself to be well-paid or just fairly-paid?

Genuinely interested. I thought £10 net an hour seemed ok. But you're right, I pay my cleaner that too.

Obviously my children are more precious than my house but cleaning is also really hard work if you are doing it all day every day - and doing a good job of it.

spending all day with someone elses children is also really hard afirmgrip, it takes a special person to make a good job of it

and FWIW op, surely you arent quibbling about a £1 difference an hour?

spending all day with someone elses children is also really hard afirmgrip, it takes a special person to make a good job of it

Well, obviously. I couldn't agree more.

I feel that I am reasonably paid!
Cleaning is very hard work (as is childcare)!
The perception of child care being something anyone can do is what I constantly challenge!
I look at the job descriptions that some people write and wonder if they would do all of it for £12 per hour!
I am very lucky in that the families I work for value my experience and expertise (I am a qualified Primary Teacher, but regardless of that qualification I think all qualified and/or experienced child carers should be paid a reasonable amount!) . The bottom line is that the professional entrusted with the care of your child should be of the utmost value to parents.
I have also seen adverts for dog walkers charging £8 per hour....which is fine of course but I really think that child carers should be financially rewarded in a way that reflects the importance of the role they are in.

ssd - a £1 an hour difference on a net wage is actually about a £60+ a week difference. More than £3000 a year isn't small change

Hi crafty
Just curious -what is the all in cost to parents employing a nanny full time (say 50 hrs a week) with a net hourly wage of £12?

£12 net an hour gives the employee an annual salary of about £41.5k and costs the employer about £46k.

£12 net is aprox £15.56 gross which is £778 a week [including tax/ni etc]

I am a nanny and not on that hersterton

I would expect an awful lot of a nanny on a £40k salary, when you consider the kind of jobs people on similar salaries in education or healthcare do.