This article has been written for the Koru Kids Nanny Service for nannies who are thinking about applying.
You’ll start on £11.15-£14.50 per hour (including holiday pay) depending on your childcare experience and locality.
🌱 Standard Experience - starts on £11.15-13.35 per hour (including holiday pay), depending on your age and locality . You’ll need to have had informal childcare experience or had professional roles that lasted less than one year.
🌿 Parental Experience - starts on £13.35 - £13.50 per hour (including holiday pay) depending on your locality. You need to have at least 3 years experience of raising your own family.
🌳 Professional Experience - starts on £13.50-14.50 per hour (including holiday pay), depending on experience, role, and locality. You need to have at least 1 year experience as a nanny or in a professional childcare setting.
You can use this calculator to figure out what starting rate you would be on (you’ll need to provide us with references to validate this experience before we agree your pay)
If you have worked as a professional nanny before, have any childcare qualifications
or any other early years childcare roles including as a childminder or in a nursery, you may be eligible for a professional nanny role. With this role, you will be able to set your own rate.
If you are interested in this role, please email us at care@korukids.co.uk and we will assess your eligibility.
Guaranteed hours
We don’t allow zero hour contracts. We know families need different amounts of childcare and we try to support this as much as possible but we balance this with making sure our nannies can rely on their income.
When you agree to work with a family they’ll need to commit to paying you for a minimum number of hours, usually 9, during term time, providing you are available and willing to work. This will be averaged over the month to allow some flexibility for schedules to change. More about how this works can be found here.
Promotional rates
The rates on this page are the standard rates most nannies are on. Sometimes a different rate from these is given to a nanny under promotional circumstances. If you have been told a different rate as part of sign-up or by the Koru Kids team, that rate will be accurate.
Employed by a family, but paid by Koru Kids
You will become an employee of the family (not self-employed). This means you are entitled to:
An employment contract
Payslips
Paid holiday (this is paid to you monthly)
If eligible, you'll also receive sick pay, maternity pay and pension contributions where eligible
We make sure everything is above board: we set up the contract, and handle the monthly payroll and other legal obligations. To make sure you're being paid the right amount and on time, here are some things to be aware of:
You will be paid by Koru Kids via bank transfer each month
You'll need to submit your hours to Koru Kids via our Koru Kids App or on your dashboard
Get any expenses pre-approved by the parents and keep the receipts so you can claim them back
For more information, check out the Getting Paid section in the Help Centre.