How much do you pay your nanny?

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The job is for one day a week, about 5-6 hours, to watch my 3yo and 7mo. The nanny is not a professional and has no baby experience - she is a university student studying for an unrelated discipline. We live in the South-West.

She wants £15 per hour, which seems steep - or am I hopelessly out of touch?

£13 gross per hour for an experienced nanny in an expensive South East village.

Take a look on childcare.co.uk for nannies in your area. Many put their rate on their profile and it will give you a good local benchmark.

Thanks, caffeinebuzz. I’ve just looked - the website says the average pay in my postcode is £10.55. So it wasn’t just my imagination!

Seems high to me. I'm in Surrey and get £12-£14 gross per hour. Over 20 years experience, not that it seems to make much difference to salary level these days.

Your hours are quite short though which may bump up the hourly rate but location wise I would expected it to be less.

We pay £12 an hour gross for 11 month old twins. Nanny is a professional found through a nanny agency. We're in Scotland.
The agency told us £15 was top end for someone with lots of experience and £9 the lowest, someone who had maybe just worked in a nursery.
We didn't look at anyone who wasn't experienced and of the 5 nanny's we interviewed only one expected £15, the rest averaged at £12.

£13.50 per hour gross for someone very experienced to look after 4 children. Although ranging from age 13-5, so not as labour intensive as yours.

We've increased her hourly rates as we've cut her hours due to our need reducing, though. You may struggle to get someone good for a small number of hours without paying above market rates.

That's very expensive for a non-professional, inexperienced nanny. I'd not actually be comfortable leaving a baby with her based on your description. Let alone paying £15 an hour for it!

I pay £13 net for an experienced nanny housekeeper in London.

But that’s all through the books, tax paid etc

Someone doing 1 day a week presumably can be self employed for tax and therefore will be getting a higher net than someone in a full time job for one family, which makes it even more unrealistic that she wants £15 an hour..!

I used to do similar while at uni doing 10 hour days twice a week and there were 3 children under 5. This was about 8 years ago and they paid me £7ph. They were massively taking the piss but i was too young and naive to realise at the time.

OP you'll struggle to get someone reliable, who will stay with you for a few years, for 6 hours a week. That's the issue here.

You do pay more if only a few hours. Nannies usually do 10 to 12 hour days so not many would want these hours . Also if the nanny is self employed then you would pay more as includes a holiday pay element .
But agree £15 is very high for someone with no experience. I hope she has DBS, paediatric first aid at the very least.

£15g is for the qualified experienced nanny IMO

Not a student who has never done childcare

But

You want short hours for one day

Did many apply

Is she reliable. Hope she knows something about babies

I would want her to have a dbs pli and pared first aid as basics

Make sure payment is gross

Assume you won’t have any tax and no to pay on this - not sure about employers no

Will this be through the books or £75/90 cash weekly

I’m in sw and pay my cleaner 12.5/hour (she’s cheap as there’s no agency) I’d expect to pay more for a nanny to be honest.

Going rate in south London is 15-16 gross per hour, pension etc. I actually do part time hours so charge more to make up for lost hours. Most nannies I know earn this rate at least and are t always qualified in anything specific.