Live in nannies can you tell me about pay ???

[no1andno2]

For those of you who have live in nannies can you tell me how much you pay them net a week , where you are and what hours they work please.............I need to plan !!!

I pay my nanny £340 net per week. She gets up to get kids ready for school (720 am?) and then i get back between 630pm and 700pm. DD is 5 and is in school from 830am to 330pm
DS is 3 and is nursery 3 times a week, 845am to 1pm (lunch at nursery)

Contractually 2 babysitting nights per week (except friday and weekends), but hardly use it (maybe 3-4x per month).

If i use her to babysit on a friday or a weekend, i pay her £40.

4 weeks paid hols, 2 weeks her choice, 2 weeks mine. We normally give her an option if she wants to come with us on hols. In last 2 1/2 years, she has said yes to Barbados, Portugal (2x), Barcelona, France/Geneva, and no to Italy, Cornwall (haha), Portugal, Manila/Singapore. If she goes on hols with us and ask her to definitely be with us (normally if we are on hols with another family and we would want babysitting), the other family gives her extra money (maybe £100 per week?)

Use of car. At night or on weekend for personal use.

London (clapham).

Hope that helps.

oh, also there are at least 3 or 4 families in DD's school and a couple of neighbours (friends of ours) that use her for babysitting on nights we don't use her. She is able to do this at least once every couple of weeks, which is a nice £40 for her.

Page how old is she and does she do anything other than nursery duties ??

no1andno2..Where are you based? This would help to say how much to pay as salary varies place to place.

She is 26 years old (so started with us when she was 24).

No, just nursery duties. Though i have been known to nick some of her leftover stirfrys or home made soup . Most of the time, she has cooked enough food so i can give it to the kids on the weekend (so they don't eat the same tea back to back)

She does help keep the house nice and tidy (like the kitchen for example)- but i wouldn't be expecting her to be mopping floors or anything like that IYSWIM. Also does some shopping for us if i have forgotten things from the weekly shop.

im in rural midlands on the edge of a large village.

thanks page62

You should be able to get a full time live-in nanny in the midlands for more like £250 net per week in this market, especially if you don't required a lot of experience. Say someone who has been an au pair and worked in a nursery for a couple of years.

That doesnt sound too bad. Some of the agncies seem to be saying £350 net a week upwards.

Sometimes I think that nannies think we are all millionaires!!!

Agencies have a vested interest in inflating nanny salaries. I'm sure I save myself buckets of money by hiring myself. You will get much better advice by typing on MN than you will from any agency.

athene is absolutely right - the nanny I eventually hired wasn't sent to me by one agency -the only reason I can see is that she was asking less than the numpties candidates this agency should

Ithink you are right because when I speak to other friends who have live out nannies they arent paying as much as the agencies are quoting me for a live in one!

Im live in in London for 4 school aged kids and I get 355/week. I am contracted to work 7-7 with 2 babysits per week but I work 7- when the mum gets home, sometimes midnight every day. The dad works abroad. I do pretty much everything from mopping, laundry, servicing the car, attending school concerts etc etc....Hope that helps give you another perspective.

How in the world do you manage all that? No matter what the pay, that is a lot to ask of anyone. Some jobs, I think, are just too exhausting no matter what the reward.

I sit here and have a cup of tea and MN while the floor is drying...well thats my excuse anyway
I didn't know it was this much work when I took the job. Some things they neglected to mention in the interview. Still the family are nice so that makes it easier. Would like to have a life though. Have only 2 friends in the whole UK. Never ever get to go anywhere are night.Cant join a sporting team or anything so thats depressing but given the current nanny job situaion I am staying where I am.

You know I think I missed the bit about all in school. So I guess it's not that bad. But midnight everynight is a lot. I just left a job that worked me to the bone and I got liitle in return. I got paid for the extra hours. But,no career progression. A hostile working environment. And it wore me down to the point that I looked for another job and resigned (with pleasure!).

while the kids are in school they attend an international school so finish at 1255, 140 and 345 so can have all or none home in the middle of the day. its hard becuase they hardly ever see thier parents so I am like mum and dad in one and they crave their parents attention so its tough but at least I can go to the gym during the day so it has its good points (i thnk)

bloody hell Louis please come and work for me.

I confess I really need someone like you.

Also confess I have a current nanny who I am looking to get shot of. She is on 290 a week live in with a sep annexe and completely free car 24/7 and 5 weeks hols.

Both DC's at school and she does bugger all to help or make my life easier.

EG. at half term ( she works 8 to 7 ) in hols she had the DC's full tim Mon/ Tues ( spent 70 pounds on Tuesday oon cinema trip !! ), they were at rugby training all day on Weds / thurs so she invited a friend to stay and sat around both days drinking coffe ( she told us the day before ) and then on Friday we went away in the afternoon. So she shoved the children out in the garden on their own to play in the morning so she could get nursery duties done and then when DH got home at 12.30 ( i got back at one ) she told him she had finished all her work and she buggered off in the car before I got back.

FUMING.

We have this all the time. No point discussing with her as she pays lip service to it and thinks of a new way to get out of the minimal she does and pull the wool over our eyes.

I intnd to make her redundant in a few months. Louis fancy a job. I have a cleaner so no cleaning at all but I doe expect the sink to be free of the dregs of the childrens food when I get back late ( which it wasnt last night ) and you to turn up at sports matched and school concerts which she flatly refuses to do as they do not fall withing her working hours and when they do she makes up excuses.

AAAGH

no1andno2 ill work for you! sep annexe!

I suspect a name change in our midst. Am I right? The person I am talking to can cat me if she wants to.

i thought that as well athene

waves to no1andno2 - the quicker you get rid of your useless nanny who basically gives fab nannies like us me a bad name the better!!!

you must be coming up for two years now with her now, so soon you will have to pay her redunancy money

AN...........well done!!

hey blondes yes I am but I have worked out that I can avoid that by a stroke of luck in the way that she has taken her hols this year so she will owe me nearly as much back in holiday pay so that made me feel better.

I know I have been soft but I couldnt stand the crap disciplinary would have meant and there is a natural break and change in job spec thsi summer as DC's are changing schools and she is away for a month.

The other issue is she is so manilulative the DC's think she is fab and I didnt want to upset their world but its making me very sad now and I have to do what is right for us all.

children do miss their nannies when they leave but they also move on and are happy to have a new nanny

yours are older enough to understand

you seem such a lovely person that it really pisses me off the way your nanny uses you and takes advance of your good nature

fri am she should have been playing with your dc, and any duties she had to do SHOULD have been done when they were at rugby the day before

i am all up for fresh air, so she could have played in garden with them

im seeing marmite next week, so i can always give her a prod in the right direction towards you no1andno2

I think you should talk to louishappy.

More importantly, when can you come to London for a meet-up? Cat me and we'll chat offline. I can't cat you!

I totally sympathise - we agonised over what to do about our first nanny too and eventually gave her notice (following great mumnetters advice). I am sooo glad we did! On the discipline side I really hated the idea of that too and fortunately we 'saw the light' and got rid of her before she reached one year's service so didn't have to go through a disciplinary procedure to justify our decision. In the current economic climate you should have plenty of good nannies to chose from who won't take the pXSS. Good luck!