Nanny salary and duties

[dancingmama]

Hi all. Following my previous post regarding childcare, I think it's looking like a nanny is the best option for our family. Obviously looking to hire after the pandemic has passed but I need everything set up and ready before then.

As we are relocating to Scotland (town not city) from Singapore we are very out of touch with childcare in the UK. Can you please tell me what you pay your nanny and a rough outline of hours and duties?

TIA

If I base this on a prior job not my current then that may be more suitable as I think from your AuPair thread you are wanting a nanny who will do some housekeeping as well, which is what I did for the last couple of years in one of my prior nanny jobs (by that stage all the children were school age - thus time for the housekeeping).

Lets say hours per week are 40... that's quite low for a nanny but could be what you are looking at with your split shifts and having a mix of mostly childcare plus some housekeeping hours.

£12 gross x 40 hours = 480 gross per week. This is just under £25,000 per year.
You would have employers NI of about £2,250.
You would have employers pension of about £750
Payroll and Pension admin support... lets say £250
Then you have activity costs, travel (some town's in Scotland are more like what someone from England would consider to be a village in my experience of towns in Aberdeenshire - Aboyne, Ballater, Banchory. Not sure if towns there are the sort of size you are looking at) which could be quite high as nanny may take your child to activities in a nearby town/village where nearby may be a 30-60 mile round trip.

Working hours: Variable. Some 7am but mostly 7:30am starts. Mostly 6:30pm/7pm finishes but sometimes later. Typically I worked 3.5 days per week, so some days were long and others short.

Housework duties included: Children's laundry, children's bedding. This later became all laundry as that was just easier then separating things out. Parents would also do quite a lot of that as the washing mountain had to be kept in control.

Vac the house once a week, some high traffic areas were done a bit more frequently, especially in winter. Wash kitchen floor. Some dusting to keep the spiders webs under control.

Thanks this is extremely helpful.

Wrapping my head around the cost of childcare is going to be difficult (not that I don't believe it's a fair price!)

I don't know how most families do it

My nanny does everything to do with the children, so their laundry/tidy their rooms (they are suppose to help). She also cooks them a meal and then she will cook for us (eg if she is making pasta bolognese she will make some for us to)

No other household duties

I made a mistake agreeing a net salary, agree a gross salary, you don’t take the risk of any changes in taxes

Never agree nett. That’s something that was agreed least 10yrs ago

Always gross

A nanny will do anything along lines children duties. Their washing. Cooking meals. Tidying their bedroom. Change their beds - keeping areas clean and tidy

Tho that doesn’t mean they come into a messy house and tidy up your weekend mess /night dishes

Many nannies including myself tho now ex nanny tho was one for 20yrs - now a maternity nurse - don’t like coming to a messy house

Or doing employers underwear washing

Happy to empty machine or hang

Don’t always leave the dishwasher to them

Pay on time

And say the odd thank you