Holiday Bonuses Part II (continued)

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Position: Full-time Nanny
Bonus: $225
Your Weekly Salary: $670
Any Supplementary Gifts aside from The Bonus: If you can call it a gift. Her mother bought her a sweater from Lord & Taylor. She gave it to me and told me to return it and get something nice for myself.
Length of Time you Have worked for the Family: 7 years
City, State and Country: Rye, New York
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Position: Full-time Live in Nanny
Bonus: $500
Your Weekly Salary: $450
Any Supplementary Gifts aside from The Bonus: A box full of socks (inside joke) and an aero garden.
Length of Time you Have worked for the Family: April 2004
City, State and Country: Princeton, NJ
"My bosses are wonderful people who value what an asset it is to have a nanny. To love and take care of their children in a way they would do it if they could. For those of you who are not respected by your employers, it is time to move on and find a family that will. I have been through 4 families and would not settle until I found the perfect one."
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Position: Full-Time Live-Out Nanny 7 AM-3 PM
Bonus: $100 spending money for trip.
Your Weekly Salary: $520
Any Supplementary Gifts aside from The Bonus: 2 round trip tickets for any where in the U.S.
Length of Time you Have worked for the Family: 7 Months
City , State and Country: Portland, Oregon USA
"Out of all the nanny positions I have had, they treat me like I am actually a member of their family! And believe me I have worked for horrible people! This summer my mom and I will be traveling to New York, thanks to my Christmas gift!"
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Position: full-time nanny to infant & preschooler
Bonus: $250
Your Weekly Salary: $500 before taxes
Any Supplementary Gifts aside from The Bonus: $50 gift card to Target
Length of Time you Have worked for the Family: 2 years 4 months
City, State and Country: Nashville, TN USA
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Position: FT Nanny
Bonus: $900
Your Weekly Salary: $900 after taxes (and health insurance)
Any Supplementary Gifts aside from The Bonus: Sony K-Series Vaio, basket of coffees.
Length of Time you Have worked for the Family: 8 months
City, State and Country: NY, NY (UES)
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Position: Nanny for 1 child
Bonus: $100 (started job last mid September)
Your Weekly Salary: $465 (31 hours per week)
Any Supplementary Gifts aside from The Bonus: origin shampoos
Length of Time you Have worked for the Family: Since September 2006
City , State and Country: San Francisco, ca
"At the beginning they hired me for 2 children, then they put one in school, you do not find a school so fast so I am sure they had already been looking for a school when I had the job interview but they did not mention anything.
I did not get paid for Thanksgiving or Christmas, and lots of nannies I talk to get paid. So I am a bit frustrated."
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Your Position: Full time Nanny
Bonus: Full weeks pay
Your Weekly Salary: $570
Any Supplementary Gifts aside from The Bonus: none
Length of Time you Have worked for the Family: 3 months
City , State and Country:Albuquerque, NM
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Position: Full time, live-out Nanny
Bonus:$1800
Weekly salary:$800
1 week off-paid (extra to my 2 weeks vacation].
Length of time worked you have worked for family: 3 months
City, State, Country: Los Angeles, CA
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Position: Part time afterschool nanny/mother's assistant
Weekly salary: $300.00
Bonus: 2 weeks paid vacation
Any supplementary Gifts aside form the bonus: $100.00 Nordstrom gift card
Length of time worked you have worked for family: One year
City, State, Country: Southern California
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Your Position: Full-time (6 days a week) Nanny/ House Keeper (for 3 kids under the age of 4)
Bonus: $0
Your Weekly Salary: $400
Any Supplementary Gifts aside from The Bonus: A gift basket from wal-mart of foul smelling body washes
Length of Time you Have worked for the Family: Almost 3 months
City , State and Country: upstate NY
"I have done everything I am possibly able too for this family. I started the job 2 weeks early because she went into emergency c-section. I stay late over half of the week with no notice and no extra pay. Everyday I am there I realize more and more how the mom doesn't appreciate me, and how I can't take working over 60 hours a week for such little pay. The mom wanted me to work on Christmas eve and Christmas day because they are Jewish and don't celebrate that holiday, ever though I asked for those days off exactly before they even hired me. I worked 5.5 hours on Christmas eve and did get Christmas day off, and I am now looking for a new job."
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Your Position: Live in Nanny
Bonus: $o see below
Your Weekly Salary: $700.00
Any Supplementary Gifts aside from The Bonus: See Below
Length of Time you Have worked for the Family: almost 3 months.
City, State and Country: Scarsdale, New York
"I changed positions in late September. During the interview, the mother who I interviewed with made everything sound so wonderful so I was excited to start a job with her and her children. I moved in. Everything went okay. It was a lot of work (13 hour days) but as December came in to focus I had learned my way around Scarsdale and to their schools and activities. I had paid to change my ticket home from December 17th. to December 23 (at her request). December 15th. was the first day of Hanukkah. I had hoped that weekend to get all of my shopping out of the way and I was getting excited about my trip home to Chicago. My boss returned home early. At first I assumed it was for Hanukkah. Then she put a movie on for the children and told me that she was firing me. I tried to ask why and she didn't want to give me an answer (I later found out her previous nanny had called and asked to return to work). So not only does she fire me on the spot, but she makes me get out that minute. And I was getting paid every two weeks. She owed me a ton of overtime. I was so upset. You can't imagine this kind of rejection when you have to pack up your stuff and get out of someone's house. I waited for an hour on the curb for a friend to come and pick me up. I held off crying because I didn't want to give that b*tch the satisfaction. She didn't pay me the overtime and she deducted from that two week paycheck for the phone I had just paid to have installed as well as enough to "pay the residual balance". No bonus. No pay for the next week. And no money to Christmas Shop. It was the worst experience ever. For every great story you read on here or here about a nanny getting a great bonus, there are probably three nannies that get screwed. These employers have all of the power when you are a live-in so as carefully as employers are warned to choose their nannies, I want to warn nannies to choose employers carefully! The wrong employer can ruin your life. I am returning to New York on January 7 and will start working for what sounds like a great family. Fortunately for me, the nannies I had met in the area and the parents knew that the woman I was working for was a b*tch and they networked to find a new position for me!"
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Your Position: Full time Nanny for a two year old boy
Bonus: $7000.00
Your Weekly Salary: $714.00 (after taxes
Any Supplementary Gifts aside from The Bonus: $100.00 gift card to Sephora with some other makeup gift with it, a beautiful pottery barn frame with a picture of the little boy, and I just recently hurt myself and have been out of work for 3 weeks and they are paying me (extra time off).
Length of Time you Have worked for the Family: I have worked with them for a year and a half.
City , State and Country Boston, Massachusetts, USA
"I work for the best family with the best little boy ever. I have been a nanny for about 9 years and can honestly say this is the best job ever. Not only because they are great to me financially, but as we all know as nannies most of the time it is better to be respected and appreciated in your job than anything. Still after a year and a half they constantly tell me how much they love and appreciate me and it is so nice to hear. I was stuck in some pretty bad jobs in the past but I kept searching and found something wonderful."
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Position: Nanny/Housekeeper
Bonus: $100
Your Weekly Salary: $200 for 2 days a week
Any Supplementary Gifts aside from The Bonus: clothing (maybe $100-$150)
Length of Time you Have worked for the Family: 4 months
City , State and Country: Jacksonville, FL USA
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Your Position: Full time nanny shared by two families for two toddlers
Bonus: $600
Your Weekly Salary: Between $600-$675 depending on hours worked
Any Supplementary Gifts aside from The Bonus: Yes, but they ordered it and it hasn't yet arrived so it will be a surprise still. I am sure it will be lovely.
Length of Time you Have worked for the Family: 10 months
City , State and Country: Chicago, IL.
"I was thrilled with the bonus I received from the families I work for,
I feel like they really do value and respect the work that I do and
that they know I love their kids very much. Also I am really excited
to have another gift when it arrives."
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Your Position: Nanny for 2 children
Bonus: $1000
Your Weekly Salary: $775.00
Any Supplementary Gifts aside from The Bonus: Yes! Hitatchi personal massager (!), 2 James Pears cashmere sweaters, necklace, ipod nano, Christian Dior fragrance, Marc Jacobs clutch, gift certificate to itunes, gift certificate to Victoria's Secret, gift certificate to Sephora and gift certificate to Bloomingdales.
Length of Time you Have worked for the Family: 4 years
City , State and Country: Manhattan, New York
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Your Position: Nanny
Bonus: $50
Your Weekly Salary: depends on days needed ranges from 400 for a full week to 80 for part time work
Any Supplementary Gifts aside from The Bonus: no
Length of Time you Have worked for the Family: 5 months
City , State and Country: West Seneca, NY
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Your Position: Part-Time Nanny (They also have a full-time nanny and another part time nanny).
Bonus: no monetary bonus
Your Weekly Salary: depending on school schedule $100-300 (however with Christmas break I'm pulling $700)
Any Supplementary Gifts aside from The Bonus: a beautiful $75 leather bound bible (which I wanted), and about $50-75 of other presents especially chapsticks, notebooks and things from the girls. also I got home made cards and also thank you cards from the girls for the gifts I gave them.
Length of Time you Have worked for the Family: less than 3 months
City , State and Country: Winter Park, FL, USA
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Your Position: full-time, live out nanny
Bonus: $810
Your Weekly Salary: $810
Any Supplementary Gifts aside from The Bonus: $50 gift cards for each
of my three children. Pretty silk scarf for me.
Length of Time you Have worked for the Family: 6 months
City , State and Country: Santa Clara, CA
"I work for a very nice family. They are generous and kind."
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Your Position: PT Nanny
Bonus: $50.00
Your Weekly Salary: $200.00 (for ten hours)
Any Supplementary Gifts aside from The Bonus: One paid extra day even though I was off.
Length of Time you Have worked for the Family: 5 months
City , State and Country: Century City, CA.
"Kinda Cheap huh. and my other boss gave a gift certificate for their restaurant and a coffee cake... I'm stuck with a bunch of cheapies! I need to find more generous bosses.....The first job for $200.00 is based on 10 hours a week. Which is $20.00 an hour but there is driving involved this salary includes mileage and gas. The other is about $300.00 per week averaging 20some hours ($14.00 an hour) But the bonuses were bad!"
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Your Position: Full time nanny
Bonus: $0
Your Weekly Salary: $600, before taxes
Any Supplementary Gifts aside from The Bonus: Hat and mittens
Length of Time you Have worked for the Family: 18 months
City, State and Country: Midwest
"I work for people who get their entire salary as an end of the year bonus, and after 18 months of working 60 hours a week, I get a hat. Then I found a new job."

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