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Originally Posted by sea6speed
Au Pair's aren't exempt from local minimum wage laws. Here, the minimum wage is 80% higher than the federal level. That has a huge effect on our child care costs. Whatever the case, hardly anyone uses au pairs here. Everyone has nannys. Once you figure in the additional cost of a bedroom they're about the same (each bedroom adds about $150K-200K to the cost of the house. Adding a bedroom+bath if you don't already have the space for it is around $200K) Even a modest house with an au pair suite is around $1M.
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I stand corrected. In Seattle, it is about $350/wk ($7.77/hr). Still half of what I currently pay and far less than the cost of a nanny. I prefer to have a live-in as call-outs have become a real nightmare for many of my coworkers.