Tips & advice to nannies on best practices in their employment relationship, work agreement, contracts, compensation agreements, building a nanny portfolio
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3. The BUSINESS side of nannying?
• But I love Jon and Maria!
• I just want to help…
• We are like family…
• I don’t like talking about money…
• But I trust them…
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5. The BUSINESS side of nannying?
• This is your job!
• This is your career!
• Their home is YOUR office.
• There is no HR department or employee handbook –
unless you make one!
• It IS about money – your income.
• Only you can allow others to take advantage of you.
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6. WHY the Work Agreement?
• Establishes a professional
relationship.
• The family & nanny who negotiate a
durable work agreement demonstrate
their commitment to a long term
relationship.
• Fewer problems, questions and
misunderstandings in the future.
• It’s a BEST PRACTICE!
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7. WHEN to Negotiate?
WHEN? Before you start your new job!
• After you have been offered and accepted a conditional offer of
employment.
• You usually have 3 – 5 days when the employer is checking
references and doing a background check. Use this time to negotiate
and write the Work Agreement.
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8. WHEN to Negotiate?
• Don’t start work without the work
agreement in place.
• Schedule the time to review it.
• FAMILY: “We’ll work on it next weekend
– we really need you to start Monday.”
• YOU: “How about we get together
Sunday to work through the details.
This is important for both of us so we
understand expectations.”
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9. WHAT are the Basics?
• Hours • House Rules
• Duties • Benefits
• Hourly pay rate • Confidentiality
• Pay frequency • Duration
• Taxes to be deducted • Review / Renegotiate
• Overnight compensation
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10. Hours
• Days Worked.
• Start Time – if the parents leave at 8 am, plan to be at their home
and ready to work by 7:45 and put this as your start time.
• End Time.
Example:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 7:45 – 5 PM
Wednesday: 7:45 – 7:30 PM
Alternate Fridays: 7:45 – 5 PM
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11. Duties
Details count!
• Childcare is a given.
• Homework help?
• Prepping dinner?
• Transportation to/from school?
• Meeting the bus?
• Medical Appointments? Therapy? Gymboree?
• Housework? Spell it out!
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12. Hourly Pay Rate
First, some definitions…
• GROSS WAGE: the amount you are paid before
taxes are deducted.
• NET WAGE: the amount of your actual paycheck after taxes, if any,
are deducted.
• EMPLOYMENT TAXES: Taxes your employer is legally obligated to
pay (Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment)
• INCOME TAXES: Taxes YOU are legally obligated to pay.
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13. Hourly Pay Rate
• Nannies are NON-EXEMPT employees according to the Fair Labor
Standards Act. What does this mean?
• You must be paid on an hourly rate basis. SALARY is reserved for professional staff.
• If you live out you are entitled to one and one-half times your hourly rate for hours
worked in excess of 40 in a week.
• Maryland applies the overtime differential to LIVE IN domestics.
• Best Practice: Establish your HOURLY RATE in your work
agreement. Tools, such as 4nannytaxes.com’s Hourly Rate
Calculator, exist to facilitate this.
• Best Practice: Agree to a weekly minimum pay rate in your work
agreement – guarantees you are paid for all days scheduled even if
the family cancels on you.
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14. Hourly Pay Rate
Hourly Pay Rate Calculator Results
Your inputs:
Work State: DC
Salary: $750.00
Pay Frequency: Weekly
WEEKLY hours worked: 45
Residential Status: Live Out Employee
Results:
The hourly wage being offered is $15.79. The overtime wage is $23.68
Suggested Contract Language
Employee Weekly compensation of $750.00 gross, based on an gross hourly wage of
$15.79 and a 45 hour work week. Employee guaranteed minimum Weekly
compensation of $750.00 gross. Weekly hours worked in excess of 40 per week to be
compensated at $23.68 gross per hour.
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15. Hourly Pay Rate: Alternate Work Weeks
Nannies whose employers work for the Federal Government
may be asked to work alternate work weeks.
• 9/8/80 the most common.
• Typically paid Bi-Weekly (Alternating Weeks).
• Define work week in your work agreement as mid-day
Friday to mid-day Friday to avoid any overtime issues or
disputes.
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16. Hourly Pay Rate: Alternate Work Weeks
Define 9/8/80
• An employee works eight 9-hour days and one 8-hour day in a two-week
period with one day off every other week that corresponds with the 8-hour
day.
• The work week must be adjusted to ensure that nanny does not work over
40 hours in any consecutive seven day period. In this instance their work
weeks would be adjusted to start four hours into their work shifts on
their 8 hour days (this puts 4 hours into each work week).
• Example: An employee on a 9/8/80 schedule working from 7:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on
their 8-hour Friday with every other Friday as their regular scheduled day
off (RDO). The work week would start mid-day on Friday and end at mid-
day on the following Friday.
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17. Pay Frequency
Establish your Pay Day!
• Weekly – paid on _______.
• Bi-Weekly – paid on ________.
Bi-Weekly is every alternate week.
• Semi-Monthly* – paid on 15th 30th
• Monthly* – paid on __________.
* Depending on State Regulations, this pay frequency may be
disallowed.
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18. Taxes to be Deducted
WAIT! Make sure you are on the same page and
agree that this work is on the books!
• Why?
• Unemployment insurance – it is harder to collect (you
eventually will) if your employer has not reported your
wages and paid the unemployment tax.
• Verifiable income – have you tried to rent an apartment,
get a car loan, or open a credit card without verifiable
employment?
• Worker’s Compensation Coverage – if you are injured
while working, without this insurance you will have to sue
for coverage for lost wages and medical bills.
• Social Security Medicare Benefits
• Earned Income Tax Credit Stimulus Payments - $$$$$
• It’s the law – why expect to be treated as a professional
when you both agree to commit tax fraud together?
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19. Taxes to be Deducted
• 5.65% of GROSS WAGE for Social Security and Medicare.
(Back to 7.65% 1/2013)
• Employer may agree in the work agreement to pay these taxes for you (not
deduct them).
• Income Taxes: YOU may ask the employer to deduct your
Federal and State income taxes. IF the employer agrees, use a
tax calculator to determine amounts.
• State Tax Levies: Certain states authorize additional tax
deductions by the employer (CA, NJ, NY, PA, RI)
• You will want to be very sure your employer provides you with a
pro-forma payroll calculation if a payroll service is not being
used. It is the law in California New York.
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20. Overnight Stays
Some families require overnight stays by their nanny. Compensation
should be defined in the work agreement and can legally be no less
than your hourly rate, including OT.
Some norms:
• Overnight compensation generally assumes 8 hours sleeping. If you
have 3 month old premature triplets – you might have to adjust this!
• Contiguous nights (you work the day before/after) standard is 1.5
times your day rate.
• Weekends are typically more generously compensated, as the day
portion of the work is usually at time and one half also.
All rates are negotiable so they are mutually agreeable!
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21. House Rules
• Especially if you live in…
• FOOD: Help yourself? Bring your own? Limitations? Dietary rules
(Kosher, Halāl, peanut allergy, etc.)
• SHOES: (really!)
• VISITORS: Allowed? Must meet your employers first? Not allowed.
• TELEPHONE/COMPUTER USE
• COMMUNICATION: Who is first? Nanny log?
• PETTY CASH: Most important with toddlers
and older.
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22. House Rules
• SECURITY SYSTEMS/LOCKS: Always activated, only when away
from the home?
• ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE HOME: Walk to the park? Metro?
Driving? Car Seats? Mileage reimbursement?
• EMERGENCIES: Make sure you have a Consent for Medical
Treatment and all insurance ID info, pediatrician name, number, etc.
• SMOKING/ALCOHOL
• BAD WEATHER POLICIES
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23. Benefits
• MOST are negotiable, unless established by state law.
• Paid Time Off: Define carefully.
• Paid Holidays: Define which ones you get – most nannies (and other
employees) don’t get ALL.
• Health Insurance: Typically a contribution to your premium if offered.
• Mileage reimbursement: IRS sets the standard rates.
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24. Automobile Use
If you use your family’s auto (recommended)
• Petty cash or gas card for gas
• Who is responsible for obtaining maintenance?
• Advise employer immediately of any issues.
• Courtesy – don’t leave fast food wrappers, etc. in the vehicle.
If you use your personal auto (not recommended)
• Make sure mileage reimbursement, not gas allowance, is used.
• Get it in writing in the contract.
• Have a frank discussion with your insurance agent about liability
coverage and follow their advice. Consider requesting that your
employer pay for the additional coverages.
• Car seats? Whose? Who installs?
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25. Emergency Procedures
Important Consideration for all Nannies
• Which parent do you contact first? How? Order of contact?
• If you cannot contact parents, who is an alternate?
• Make sure you have an Authorization to Seek Medical Care.
• Make sure you have a copy of the child’s insurance information.
• Make sure you have names/numbers of pediatrician, other medical
support professionals.
• Make sure you have a hospital preference.
• In case of an evacuation, make sure you arrange a meeting place.
Remember, when cell towers are overloaded, text messaging usually works.
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26. Confidentiality
Sample Contract Language:
During the course of your employment, you may legitimately see, hear
or otherwise become privy to information about our family. It is
understood and agreed that all information relating to the parents or
children, including but not limited to financial, health, household or
career, is confidential information which may not be disclosed to
anyone without the written consent of the undersigned parents. It is
also understood that a failure to abide by this agreement may, at the
parents’ discretion, result in immediate termination. The obligations of
the employee under this clause survive the termination of this
agreement.
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27. Confidentiality
Carefully consider the following:
1. Social Media postings (Facebook, MySpace, etc.).
2. Publishing photos online.
3. Bulletin board postings.
Never post anything you might have to explain to your boss. Only post
photos of your charges with the parents’ explicit permission.
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28. Termination Clause
• This needs to protect BOTH parties and establish the ground rules.
• Understand “at will” employment – the family may fire you for any
reason, or no reason at all.
• Notice (same amount both parties) or pay in lieu of notice equivalent to
the notice period.
• Termination for cause (you violated the agreement) voids the notice/
pay in lieu of notice provisions generally.
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29. Employer Property
• Nannies legitimately have Employer property, including home and
automobile keys, perhaps car seats, garage door openers, etc.
• Employer may withhold your last pay check pending return of the
property IF this clause is in your agreement.
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30. Performance Appraisals Salary Review
• The two are not always linked.
• Initial performance appraisal should be within
90 days of start of employment. Catch issues
right away.
• Annual performance appraisals? Semi-annual?
• Salary Review? When?
• New Baby?
• Staff meetings? I am only partly kidding…
Note that in bad economic times raises are not automatic! Many employers
experienced salary cuts or stagnant wages in recent years. Stay open minded
and keep communication open.
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31. Take Personal Responsibility
• Emergency fund.
• Retirement savings.
• Pay yourself first.
• Living arrangements (live in).
A payroll service will allow you to deposit part of
your net pay into a separate savings
account. Even if it is just a fixed $25 – 50 a
payroll, this helps you build a cushion.
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32. Take Personal Responsibility
Boundaries
• Professional, not personal, relationship.
• Your charges, their children.
• Your workplace, their home.
• Leave your personal issues at home.
• Do not inject yourself into their marriage.
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34. Final Thoughts: Negotiation
• Employment negotiations are unique because both sides share that
same basic goal – having you take the job.
• All interviewing is a two way street, and it is fine to ask difficult
questions.
• Don’t take it personal! This is when irrationality enters the negotiation.
• REMEMBER: If the negotiation works out you will have to WORK with
this person going forward – don’t burn bridges.
• “We have always done it this way” – don’t fall for it. Most common –
paying off the books.
• In general, the first person to name a number for salary loses. Ask the
family what the wage is, then listen.
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35. Final Thoughts: Negotiation
• Consider the family’s point of view.
• Have some options prepared in advance – discuss them.
• Counter if you need to – or bargain for more benefits. Caution – not too
aggressive or you overplay your hand. Don’t Argue!
• Don’t be too eager, no matter how long you have looked for work or
how cute the kids are. Take a cooling off 24 hours to decide.
• WIN-WIN is the outcome of the best negotiations. We all don’t get
100%.
RED FLAG: If the family is unwilling/unable to negotiate AND the offer
does not meet your basic needs, you have to be prepared to move on.
You will never be happy in that position.
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