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- From: ran@cbnews.cb.att.com (Robert A. Neinast)
- Subject: Re: Zoe Baird's woes
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:39:40 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.143940.12690@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <199301250402.AA02526@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com>
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- In article <199301250402.AA02526@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com>, c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) writes:
- > re: Zoe B's woes...
-
- > If we follow the proportions, Zoe used to make 500,000 $/K a year;
- > or, maybe 10 times what I make, give or take a few :-). Correspondingly,
- > she should be able to pay 10 times what I am paying for day care,
- > or $6,000 a month (ours is $600/month for an infant).
-
- Interestingly enough, my wife and I just had to go through getting
- childcare last October, and had to at least consider going
- "off the books". We were lucky to find a great come-to-our-house
- Nanny for $225/week (for 3 kids).
-
- What really kills us is not the money (though that's not great)
- but the paperwork.
-
- There's becoming an employer (and getting Tax ID).
-
- There's filing the Federal and SS/Med taxes.
-
- There's making the W-2 for the Nanny.
-
- There's the Federal Workers Comp.
-
- There's Ohio Workers Comp.
-
- There's Ohio Unemployment Insurance.
-
- Yoicks!
-
- Monetarily, in addition to the salary, there's also the employer's
- match of SS/Med = 7.65%. Worker's comp has a premium of 5+%, and
- unemployment has a premium of 3%. So, doing it right costs an
- additional 16%!!!!! Now, if I were a real business, I could deduct
- this as a cost of doing business, but the Feds, in their infinite
- wisdom, don't allow it for a family.
-
- Bob
- --
- _
- ". . . and shun the frumious Bandersnatch." Nipetlahuini.
- Robert Neinast (ran@cblpo.att.com)
- AT&T-Bell Labs
-