What is the right price per hour to pay a nanny in London

[Lishylooloo]

We have found a french nanny, who has ten years experience (although no formal qualification) and I have done a trial day with her and she is very good. I particularly want a French nanny so DD will learn French. We also want her for three days a week which is not that easy to find (we're doing a nanny share). She wants £10 an hour net. I've done the calculations and her gross would be £13.10 and adding to that when I pay National Insurance it is going to cost me £14.25 an hour. Is this the right price to pay?

hotcross - glad you had a chat

maybe i am being cynical here - but maybe she did have a look about and reliesed that she has a good job with you, paid well and tbh couldnt find any better

i know you are about to pop but i would feel a bit uneasy if i were you, as sounds like your nanny may decide to go if she found a better paid job!!

well I know but I feel that if she goes, she goes. At least it won't be in the next month (she has promised to give a full month's notice once she has found something else) and with being on mat leave I will manage with a few hours a week "mothers' help" rather than a full time nanny - hopefully some friends' nannies might be interested in a few hours here and there...

I have found the earlier debate on here about teachers very interesting!

I am one, in a primary school, and certainly work at least 50 hours a week during term time (about 35 hours of directed time and the rest is meetings, marking, planning, prep et...) obviously do not do the same number of hours out of term time, but there is still all the plannig, prep, marking, report cards etc that has to be done then too!

And I certainly do not make anywhere close to £34000!! (I am in the GLA) In fact, I am not even in the 30's, or anywhere close! And I come with years of experience, along with three degrees and a specialisation! Perhaps I am in the wrong profession?!

Boffinmum, hope you get your sit. sorted, as it sounds intensly frustrating. Can the agency not help out more than they are?

Melissa, the thing is, nanny work depends on being wanted by individual families, whereas teaching may bring in less money but is steadier, with more career options, and comes with things like pensions and good sick pay.

That having been said, I think there is a real problem with this gross/net thing in terms of nanny salaries, because consequentially some of the demands I see reported on here are wholly unrealistic, and play on people's natural insecurities about their children. I don't like this manipulation of families and women and think it's a bit ugly and greedy.

Of course the best nannies are more committed and wordly than this, and this is the type posting on here.

BTW the agency apologised and the contract came in the end - just in time!

there are a LOT of teachers out there who do not get pension options or sick pay! They work on a day to day contract (AKA Supply teachers) and as such, if they are off sick, they get nothing. They also do not get paid for the half and end of term holidays, meaning they have to make their money stretch a lot longer, as there may be a whole month (such as August) where they are not getting any income!

Good news that you were able to sort out the contract Boffinmum, even though it was at the last minute!

But then they're similar to temporary nannies or maternity nannies.

A pension scheme and sick pay are big perks of being in continuous permanent employment. It's not really possible to compare a supply teacher to a permanent nanny. You need to compare perm teachers to perm nannies and supply teachers to temp nannies. Perm nannies don't get pensions and most contracts state SSP only. There are a whole host of other reasons why it's unfair to compare teachers to nannies though!

I agree, it is like comparing apples and oranges. I have done both jobs! I was just commenting on the discussion comparing a teachers salary to that of a nannies one earlier on in this thread!