What would you expect to pay for p/t Nanny with teaching duties?

[fancyaflatwhite]

We've been given a wide range of rates in our search, and wonder what the consensus on a guide rate would be on here?

We're looking for a nanny with teaching experience to help with learning activities for our DS, who is home educated, for 2 days a week while I work. About half an hour outside of London.

I think that is a tricky one I would think £15 - £20 gross per hour, but it does depend what level of experience you need / total hours you are offering etc.

As a tutor I would expect to receive at least £30 per hour.

I think it really depends what you are expecting the nanny to do.

If you will have pre planned all the activities, found the relevant worksheets/websites etc and just want the nanny to make sure DS carries it out (and assuming DS is fairly independent and cooperative) then that is similar to supervising homework and a fairly normal part of a nanny job. So nanny rates.

If you are expecting the nanny to plan lessons and do significant teaching, eg if DS is young and/or needs lots of additional input, then that’s tutor rates.

Guessing it’s more the latter as you have said you need teaching experience?

@minipie thanks for your thoughts -

• yes it's a role including planning and providing learning activities, and all the nannies on our shortlist have teaching qualifications and experience

I think you'd get better flexibility and much better value for money if you were to separate out the roles of childcarer and tutor. One-to-one teaching is quite intensive and effective. Your child is unlikely to need, want, or benefit from more than an hour or two a day of that.

So if you hire an all-singing all-dancing tutor/nanny then you'd only get full value from them for a small part of the day. For most of the day, you'd be paying an overqualified person quite a high rate to make sandwiches and keep an eye on your child at the park.

Why not use a nanny or childminder for childcare, and arrange a tutor separately for a few hours?

You are better off hiring a tutor. You can find them online on Facebook etc. Much better value and less stress in some ways too.