59% of American parents plan to spend more than $18,000 per child on their care expenses in 2023. Last year, this amount totaled $10,000. With such an increase in costs, it’s no surprise that some parents want to cut corners to make it to the next month.
Unfortunately, sometimes they try to cheap out on hiring a babysitter. From asking them to work weekends with no notice to offering $70 a week, these parents are attempting to hire caregivers with little to no pay or benefits.
Our team at Bored Panda has collected some of the most demanding and lowest-paying nanny job offers from all over the internet. Below is a list of parents who wanted the best for their children but failed in the eyes of caregivers.
#1 And Then There Is This
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#2 They Couldn’t Even Feed Those Children At $100 A Week
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#3 Watch My Kids Overnight For Free And Also Have The Pleasure Of Renting An Overpriced Room In A Super Loud House. How On Earth Can This Person Post This Thinking They’ll Get Any Takers?
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#4 Is This Real Life?
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#5 Full-Time Babysitter For $5/Hr For 4 Kids. Plus Cleaning My House And Picking Up Dog Poop
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#6 Always Amazes Me How Cheap People Can Be, Especially Regarding Their Children. Like, You Think A 3 Dollar An Hour “Nanny” Is Gonna Be Good To Your Kid?
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#7 In Search Of Someone Who Doesn’t Value Their Time Whatsoever
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#8 I Could Do An Entire Series On Just This One Woman’s Posts In Our Local Group
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#9 Person On Facebook Marketplace Asking For A Live-In Babysitter And $100 In Rent, Not Including Utilities Or Food
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#10 She Wants Someone To Watch Her Kid For Less Than $3/Hour, 40+ Hours Per Week
She keeps blocking everyone who comments telling her she’s paying poverty wages. On her own page, she charges $40 a night for childcare while turning around and asking for just $25 a day for her own child.
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#11 Look After My Child, Cook Meals, And Walk The Dog In Exchange For Living In A Frozen Caravan With Us
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#12 How Dare She Want To Have A Life Outside Of Being A Nanny
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#13 Nanny, Chef, Tutor, Chauffeur For $2.73 An Hour
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#14 Looking For A Nanny
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#15 Not Even Minimum Wage
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#16 This Was In My Local “What’s Happening” Page
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#17 Woman Thinks Two Jobs Are One
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#18 Experience Presence Through The Eyes Of A Toddler
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#19 Where Do I Sign Up? No Kitchen Access, She Says You Can Buy A Microwave And Use Their Deep Freezer. Oh, And Pay Us To Be Our Nanny
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#20 Give My Kid All Your Attention, Be Available 24/7, And Do It For Basically Only Your Love Of Kids
I’ve seen a lot of posts asking for childcare at below-poverty wages. And a lot of the time I get it, childcare is stupidly expensive and yet it’s a necessity for most families. But this woman’s request takes the cake. The audacity and delusion are just top-notch. She has since deleted any negative comments to her post, but the request is still up.
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#21 $18 A Day. What An Opportunity
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#22 Seven Days A Week, $100. Don’t Teach Them Another Language And You Don’t Have To Do Dishes Unless They’re Dirty
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#23 No One Wants To Work These Days
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#24 Someone Posting Looking For Childcare. It’s The “And If You Want To Be Friends When I’m Not Working And Fold Laundry For Me” That Gets Me
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#25 Here, Take This Full-Time Job For $1.50 An Hour, Oh And I’ll Need You To Be My Personal Chauffeur Too
I understand the struggle of having a not-so-good paying job, but personally just in this last week I’ve had four job offers in entry-level positions paying at least $15 an hour with the same hours. This is a big yikes. This was posted to the Facebook group for the town that I live in.
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#26 Sure, 40k A Year Seems Like A Reasonable Annual Salary To Be Your Personal Chef, Nanny, Driver, Administrative Assistant, Home Organizer, Housekeeper, And More In Los Angeles
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#27 Babysitting At 4 AM For $2/Hr
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#28 Prefer Patient Babysitter, Unable To Pay Anything
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#29 $2 An Hour But Free Snacks And WiFi
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#30 Who Wouldn’t Want To Watch An Infant For $1.25/Hr On 3rd Shift?
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#31 Free Live-In Nanny Wanted
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#32 Babysit 4 Kids 30+ Hours A Week For $375
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#33 Looking For A Babysitter Who Will Be Paid With Music Production From A Culty Church
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#34 Seeking Mary Poppins
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#35 Lady In Mom Group Practically Yelling At Us While Trying To Find A Babysitter Who Will Work All Day Every Day For About $1 Per Hour
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#36 $1500/Month To Be A Full-Time Teacher, Nanny, And Maid
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#37 I’m Speechless
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#38 Fantastic Salary Making $18,000 A Year Any Takers
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#39 Maybe I’m Not Good At Math But This Seems Low For Infant Childcare
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#40 The Post Doesn’t Specify If Help Is Needed 5 Days A Week, But If So, It Would Be $6.25/H For 2 Kids Including A 7-Month-Old Infant
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#41 Full-Time Overnight Babysitter, Pet Sitter, And Housekeeper For $250 A Week
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#42 Wants A Live-In Nanny For $5 An Hour. The Entitlement Blew My Mind. She Deleted It After A Few Comments Called Her Out
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#43 Woman Claims She Wants A “Nani” But In Reality, She Just Wants A Slave To Take Care Of Her Household
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#44 Would’ve Thought This Was A Joke If I Didn’t See It On The Local Newspaper. Live-In Au Pair For £2.50/Hr While Minimum Wage Here Is Around £7
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#45 You Be My Au Pair, But You Also Pay Me, But It’s Low Rent
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#46 The Standard “Do Everything For Pennies” Babysitter. Needless To Say, That Was The Only Comment She Got
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#47 My Cousin, Asking For 2 Babysitters With Tutoring For Cheap/Free. Special Diet And Religious Requirements Too
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#48 It’s The One-Year Anniversary Of My Favorite Mommy Group Post
A little background: this woman got DRAGGED for about an hour until the mod pulled it (one mod for the whole group!). Then someone who is a nanny wrote a post so long it took up (edit: four) screenshots or so dragging her some more. There was a good mix of people defending her and people yelling at her. The “not someone too chatty” really killed me.
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#49 Live-In Nanny Or Room For Rent?
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#50 $12-15 For 11 Hours/Day With 3 Children Under 5
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