Originally Posted by magiciansampras

We've been interviewing some nannies and it seems like the presumption is that we, the employer, will pay all of the taxes (i.e. social security, medicare, fed income, and state). I'm just wondering if this is "standard" in NYC or if we've come across rather demanding candidates. Basically the presumption is that if we want to do this above board (which we certainly do) we need to make the take-home pay congruent with what they would get below board (i.e. we "gross up" to include the taxes).