what would you pay a live in nanny, 5 days, 12 hours a day

[starsandthemoon]

hi,

i am currently looking at a new nanny role & the employer asked me my salary. i dont want to price myself too low or high, my old job was live out so i know it wouldnt be the same salary.

what would you pay for
-a experienced nanny with qualifications
-one child
-12 hours a day, 5 days a week?

thankyou

The job you linked to is paying more because they expect you to go home when you're not working, so you need to be paid a bit more to afford alternative accommodation. Callaird is correct, the norm is more £350-450, with evening babysitting included (the norm for live-in is two nights Mon-Thurs).

The higher wages tend to go to either more qualified and experienced nannies, or quite simply, those prepared to put up with more. Typically the highest paid live-in jobs require you to sacrifice your life for most of the week, and then vacate your room on your days off to make room for the weekend nanny.

So you need to decide who you want to work for - a "normal" family with two working parents who leave you with sole charge of the children, or the other kind, where mum is busy and pops in and out, a house full of other staff (possibly a team of nannies who may or may not get on), where you are staff. Then you can decide where to pitch your salary expectations.

I'd agree with this the norm is more £350-450 for normal families at least. And normal families [ie people like me] will be referring to this sort of survey as a guide. They will raise their offer if they can't get the right person.
www.nannytax.co.uk/images/PDFs/NT-2014_WSAR_V1.pdf

I'd ask specifics about whether or not all your food is included and what input you have over choice of food.
I'd specify how many evenings a week and not leave it as a vague "some".
I'd make it Mon-Thurs only unless for example you want to have a regular commitment another night. So we interviewed someone who wanted to go to a religious meeting every Wed night so Mon-Fri excl Wed would have been the arrangement.

A 12 hour day is flipping long though unless the parents are starting the clock at 6am, 2 hours before their kids get up because they need to be at their desks by 8am and you need to deal with any child that's up and doing. An 8am to 8pm working day will leave you bugger all energy to do anything else other than collapse at the end of the day.

Living in has the potential to create lots of resentment if both parties are not clear on what is expected. Yes you will save money but no realistic person is expecting to discount your salary by the full cost you would pay by living out. The reason that most people offer live in is that it is the difference between what is affordable and what is not.

This is a great calculator. You can put your hours in, days per week and work out what it is costing to employ you.
www.mranchovy.com/calc/