how do you teachers pay your nannies?

Hi!
I am in the process of hiring a nanny for part-time help with my 20 month old twins. I will be teaching 3 days a week and am confused about how to pay. Do teachers out there pay the nanny for all school vacations, sick days (mine and hers), snow days, etc? Would you mind being as specific as possible about how you handle this? thank you!

 

I don't have a nanny, but mine go to daycare. I pay whether they go or not! I am taking up a spot that they could otherwise fill with another child, so I still have to pay or risk losing my slots.

 

I work 3 days a week. We give our nanny 5 sick days per year, and 1 week vacation (which works out to 3 days, since that is all I work per wk) per 6 months (6 total per year). She also gets Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, 4th of July, New Year's Day, assuming they fall on one of the days she works. These are all paid days off. If I happen to call in sick one day in a week, I still pay her a full week's pay. If we schedule vacation which does not coincide with her vacation, she is not paid. HTH.

 

I am going back to teaching in August. We plan to pay ours the same rate monthly. She will get off any state holidays that I am off including Christmas, Spring Break, Easter, etc. She will have to work all teacher workdays because I will be working. We will not pay her the two months of the summer that I will be off and not paid. If I am home sick from school (not likely), then I expect her to take care of my little ones. If she is sick and it's not a habit then we'll pay her. If it becomes excessive then we'll have to discuss that.

Does this make sense?

 

I'm sort of a teacher -- I'm a librarian at a medical school -- so I get snow days, etc. Anyway, what I would do is lay out from day one the days that are paid holidays. On top of that you' might offer a certain number of "personal days" (combined sick and vacation for 10 days a year -- that's how I did it anyway...) If you have snow day you play it like they can take it as a personal day if they can't make it in the snow. It might be nice to have the extra hands and do something extra fun anyway, though. OR...you just pay her and have the day alone with the girls. OR...you let her take the girls and you go get a pedicure or something. You can't just not pay, though. This is a working person, depending on a certain amount of money at the end of the week.

ETA: Oh, and if you are sick enough to take a sick day, you want to stay in bed right? If I take a sick day (I think I've taken two in 5+ years besides maternity leave), I'm in no shape to take care of the girls.

 

THANKS everyone for your responses! I definitely plan on paying her for sick days when she is sick, and it is a good idea to have her come in the rare event that I am sick. I guess what I am struggling with is the fact that I have 4 vacation weeks throughout the school year. It just seems a bit of a stretch for a nanny to get 4 weeks paid vacation, on top of sick days and snow days. Does anyone have any ideas of what may be fair surrounding that? I am in no way trying to take advantage or be cheap...I just don't want to be taken advantage of since this is the 1st time I am paying someone to care for my girls! Thanks again!

 

Last year we took 6 weeks holiday with family in Australia. We paid her for three weeks. We won't be having any holiday this year so we will probably just pay for her to take a week at Christmas. I would pay her for half of your holiday..two weeks. Seems fair to me.

 

QUOTE(emlu1 @ Jul 8 2007, 08:17 PM) [snapback]322157[/snapback]
I guess what I am struggling with is the fact that I have 4 vacation weeks throughout the school year. It just seems a bit of a stretch for a nanny to get 4 weeks paid vacation, on top of sick days and snow days.


Are you serious!? My mom was a teacher and I know she never missed but a couple days of the 180 day school year!! I guess we all figure you all do well having the 12 weeks off in the summer! I'm confused!

Anyway, just work it out in advance.

 

QUOTE(marieber @ Jul 9 2007, 03:29 AM) [snapback]322452[/snapback]
Are you serious!? My mom was a teacher and I know she never missed but a couple days of the 180 day school year!! I guess we all figure you all do well having the 12 weeks off in the summer! I'm confused!

Anyway, just work it out in advance.


I'm not talking about missing EXTRA days...we have what adds up to about 4 weeks off throughout the year.,... Thanksgiving break, Christmas break, february break, and April break. Does that make sense to you?

 

Wow, I guess our nanny is very flexible. I work 3 days a week (per diem, so if I don't work, I don't get paid). If she calls out sick (happened once in 6 months) she doesn't get paid. If she is going on vacation, she doesn't get paid. If her work day falls on a holiday, she doesn't get paid! Maybe it's because she's a college student, but I coudn't afford to pay her if I'm not working. I guess it's just what you negotiate in the beginning. Now I'm feeling cheap!