Park Slope Parents Releases Results of Nanny Compensation Survey

Image via parkslopeparents.comAs a parent, when the rare opportunity to feel superior to somebody, anybody, presents itself, by God, seize it! For example, in the department of compensating your nanny fairly.

Park Slope Parents just released the results of its fourth, not-annual-but-whatever nanny compensation survey, providing us, you, Park Slope with a host of such opportunities.

Superiority Opportunity 1: According to the survey, Park Slope nannies are paid, on average, more than double the minimum wage $15.79 an hour vs. $7.25). So we, as a Neighborhood, are better than all of those employers of minimum-wage-workers.

Superiority Opportunity 2: We give a lot more paid time off than what is required by the Domestic Worker’s Bill of Rights (average of 19 days per year vs. a measly 3).

But with the hope of feeling superior comes the dark flip side: the possibility that you are inferior. And unless you pay your nanny on the books, as only 15% of you do, you’re worse than those parents who do. Much, much worse.

Those 15%ers also get bonus superiority points because they, and not you, may one day sail through their Supreme Court Justice hearings. Remember Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood?

So, let's hear it breeder-readers. Where do you fall on the superiority/inferiority continuum?

Note: FIPS does, in fact, recommend reviewing PSP’s full-length survey results; along with its data, it includes tips and FAQs about how best to work with, and compensate your caregivers.