I am thinking about getting a housemate/nanny, but not sure if what I'm expecting is fair, and just want to get some opinions.
We live in a 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom home. There is me, my partner and our nearly 2 year old. My work hours are looking to change in the coming weeks to around 630-7am until 230-3pm. This would mean I need to leave home around 530am. My partner needs to leave around 6am.
Our child goes to day care 3 days a week, and a grandparent comes to our house 2 days a week. Daycare doesn't open until 630.
I am thinking of getting someone trustworthy in to live with us. They will need to watch our child for 1-1.5 hours in the morning, which our child would be asleep for the majority of, until daycare opens or the grandparent arrives.
How much would you think I should pay them/charge for accommodation/bills?
If they could cook dinner roughly 3 times a week, how much you expect to pay then?
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I work on an hourly rate of $25 an hour. Work out how many hours you think those jobs should take.
Also consider if they need to live in. A Uni student studying teaching/psych/speech therapy might be ideal.
I should have mentioned, in the past we have charged a housemate $100 a week + bills.
Watching our child would be a max of around 6 hours a week. And the cooking of meals would be shared. They cook some nights, we cook the others - so that would be even.
Get an Au Pair, they live in your house, rent / bills free, and you pay them around $200p/w (it sounds like they won't be with your child much?).
When you write an advert looking for the Au Pair specify what they will be expected to do, i.e 10hours of childcare a week, make dinner 3 times a week, light - medium house work (packing away toys, wash clothes, etc).
I don't expect them to clean up after my child or us. I just need them to get him up, dress him and drop at daycare, or just be in the house while child is sleeping until a grandparent arrives.
They would just need to clean up after themselves.
And I'm happy for them to not cook, but I also don't want to be responsible for feeding them every night so they would then need to cook for themselves. I more thought we could take turn cooking for everyone...
Ok, maybe you could look for a uni student who is studying a child related course, and charge them cheap rent in exchange for the help you need.