How much does your nanny really cost you?

[TheOriginalXENA]

inclu obv pay but also expenses/ food etc?

about £2,200 a month and she lives in

forgot to say I have school age children !

£90 a day net - should know the gross cost, and the all-in cost with tax, without looking it up but I prefer not to think about it. Food - she really doesn't eat much. I think she eats the children's leftovers. She tells me what food to buy, so I can choose where to buy it, but she feeds them v similar food to what I would choose, so not too much difference in cost. She doesn't spend much on other stuff - occasional £5 here and there on art supplies etc but most of their outings are to city farms, the park, museums etc so free and she always takes lunch/snacks from here. Biggest cost is the occasional tea out as a treat (e.g. Pizza Express - she spends around £20 on all 3 of them) and petrol and parking - she does drive a lot more than I would. I fill the car up when it's near empty and I'm doing it much more than I used to.

£2300/month plus £30/wk allowance inc petrol plus we pay car insurance. Plus food etc. Which all adds up to close to £30 000/yr. That is for a four day week too (40 hrs).

OMG i wish i worked as a nanny. cms would cost you considerably less especially if you used employer vouchers ie busy bees, sudexho who you pay before tax and ni is taken. and i mean you could be saving £20,000/yr

Do you mean that you'd only charge around £10K per year for 40 hours per week cmx2? I think most people who have nannies have more than one child.

I charged for a full time child last year. (8.00 - 4.30 Mon - Fri) £6,861.15 if that is any comparison. That is all inclusive.

but dont forget the extra plus points of a nanny... you dont have to get / wake your child up before you leave for work, and give them back bathed and in PJs ready for bed
the childrens laundry / bed linen is all done and their bedrooms / playroom / toys are clean / organised and tidy.
Your children are also centre of nannies attention and only go on school runs associated with their own siblings etc...

they can sleep in their own bed and their own routine can be followed more exactly

You also have someone to wait in for deliverys / 'workmen' & nip to dry cleaners, corner shop for milk (or even supermarket, I dont mind) etc, and most nannies i know including myself will do the dishwasher, and sometimes leave you some yummy home made dinner, and also leave you freshly baked cakes / biscuits etc

Shoshe, those hours would be regarded as part time by most people who employ nannies. It's not uncommon for a nanny to work 12 hours a day. That is about 50% more work than what you are offering.

And NannyL has listed many of my reasons for employing a nanny, not least of which is that I have no childcare run. That alone is worth a lot of money to me.

AtheneNoctua most of my mindees do 8/9 hours, (wish they all came and went at the same time tho, I actually do 7 - 6) but they were asking for a 40 hour week which is what my mindees do for £6,861.15,

But that's only £3.30/hour????

I'd trade the nanny in for 3.30 x 2 any day. But, where I live, the childminder is £6 x 2 and so the live in nanny works out cheaper.

That was on last years accounts, now charge 3.50 per hour, which is top end here.

BTW I am in North Dorset

My mindees 9/10/11 contracted hours every day. I then have paperwork on top of it, so it's a long day indeed.

Childminders are less expensive than nannies for obvious reasons, one being convenience, and this is a biggie for busy households. Childminders become more expensive than nannies when there are more kids in one household.

Athene £6 per hour is about right for where I live (SW London).