Editorial

Gayle Goshorn, Editor
Wednesday, January 22, 2003

The profile of nannying revealed in our annual pay survey on page 6 will be less encouraging to nannies than in recent years, but surprising to no one. It's not that the rising trend in nannies' pay was undeserved, and I think it's unfair to talk about anyone 'pricing themselves out of a job' - least of all nannies, who have no collective bargaining power, and no salary increments or career ladders that people in other occupations rely on. Most lines of work have been affected by an economic downturn in the past year.