The Nanny Salary Debate

Mar 20, 2021
The Nanny Salary Debate

 

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Many families in the UAE have a full-time live-in helper to look after their children after school and complete housework.

One Family may define a helper as a #Maid, whilst other family requirements are to “educate” their children emotionally, socially and in some parts educationally they may consider her as a #Nanny. Families who have grown-up children, may consider the helper to be a # housekeeper.

 

Maid-Nanny-Housekeeper:  Job Titles-Roles and Responsibilities.

 

 

Categories

Brief Job Description

Qualifications

Starting Salaries

 

Maid

Engaged to do all around housework, baby-sitting and cooking. Usually the lady of the home is training and guiding her .

Untrained and Unskilled

AED1,000+

Nanny NON-Qualified

 

Engaged to specifically look after varying age range children throughout the development years

Spent 2 years working for a family plus has working English/Arabic

Little or no proven further education outside of school. May have vocational certificates.

AED1,500+

Qualified -Nanny**

Engaged to specifically look after varying age range children throughout the development years and can supervise education, learning and development, with active play-based learning. Highly effective communicator with children and support for parents,

Qualified =certified degree in childcare or education, with 2 years working experience.

 

The Housekeeping Co also ensures that all Qualified Nannies are

·         Early Years Trained

·         Paediatric First Aid

·         Housekeeping Management

AED2,000+

Housekeeper

Engaged to manage the running of the home whilst parents are busy elsewhere.

Role can be divided to 30% nanny/babysitting duties, or all the family cooking.

Spent 2 years working for a family plus has working English/Arabic.

Little or no proven further education outside of school. May have vocational certificates.

 

 

AED1,500+

 

What should I pay the Nanny !??

Hiring a Nanny on your own visa can be costly and a massive stress to the family emotionally and financially if it doesn’t work out.

Nannies in Dubai or throughout the uae are generally from African and Asian countries and offer varying skill set, education , language, emotional and social skills.

 

Nannies in Dubai earn considerably more than their western educated and certified UK child care-givers, who after all have to fork out for living expenses, accommodation and transportation, and obviously they have to contribute towards income tax and national insurance every payroll!,. Whilst a UK nanny would traditionally earn 3 x gross salary of a UAE nanny , her net income results in resulting in a 20% net salary offering less than $530 disposable income

Compare that to the UAE nannies earning a basic salary with all expenses paid, resulting in a 100% net salary to the worker, affording her a monthly disposable income of $685

 

Be cautious of all the hidden costs!...and if you don’t hire the right worker, you are stuck having paid so mush at the beginning on private sponsorship, gifting her little extras etc etc…

 

Qualified Nanny**

AED Monthly

Salary ( medium range)

2,000-2,500

Furnished Accommodation Mid-Range villa = 2,000sqft with 150,000 pa rentals. Maids room/bathroom = 250sqft  18,750 pa

          1,562

30 Days Holiday entitlement, flights AED5,000/12

           416

Recruitment +Visa Expenses/24 (25,000)

          1,041

Food/ Personal Shopping * as part of family shopping

           +850

Real Cost to the Family / per month

            6,369

 

A cheaper alternative is to hire directly under Tadbeer-Housekeeping Co offering full time monthly packages for as long as you need, plus no government paperwork requirements from family side. The Housekeeping Co Provides all the employment visas, medical insurance, COVID testing, emirates ID, and monthly salaries paid on time on the 28th of each month via the WPS ( the wages protection system)…thus affording rights to both the family and the worker.

 

Call 04-706-0100

Candidate profiles here:https://www.housekeepingco.com/

The information provided was correct at time of going to press and has been supplied by Denise McGinty, Owner  of Tadbeer-Housekeeping Co. 

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