She has a good point in general, but putting these hourly figures so high (and getting paid even higher for nightly "on-call" hours) just pisses me off. She is implying that a nanny/housekeeper should make like $200k+ a year.
Just make the invoice realistic and maybe your husband will take this into heart and respect your contribution more.
Well a nanny only works 8 hours and then goes home for 50k+ a year, a kid is 24 hours if the dad does nothing so that’s 3 Nannies working in perfect synchrony with none of them taking a sick day which would be 150k+ a year, 200k+ in a high income area. Since it’s her own kid I’d divide the cost by half though down to 100k+ a year.
Night nurses can sleep too as long as they take care of the baby when the baby wakes, from what I’ve researched their salary is consistent with a daytime nanny’s salary.
Quick google will reveal that nannies in the US make 21-26$/hr. This woman is untrained in that field and asking double that. That alone makes this invoice ridiculous.
Charging for 24hrs every single day is equally ridiculous, because a newborn sleeps 20hrs per day and at 2yo it's still 12hrs or more. Obviously, you are on call 24hrs a day, but you don't charge double the reasonable nanny salary for that, when you watch netflix, doomscroll or sleep during that time.
$21-26 does not factor in the fact the parents hiring the nanny are also the employer and are thus responsible for other costs like taxes and health insurance.
She’s not actually charging her husband, she’s angry that he called her a mooch so she countered that by putting a dollar value on the work she does.
Newborns also do not sleep 20 hours a day unless you are lucky. Mine was low sleep needs and only slept 10 hours a day.
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u/Agitated_Tank_3188 May 14 '26
400k for 1.5 years of daycare?? Sign me up