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I agree that it’s absurd, but unless I’m misreading it, you’re jumping to conclusions. It’s $500 difference in cost, not necessarily in pay. It’s remotely possible that they are just making money off the racism of their clients, who somehow assume that the Chinese are worth more.
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To be fair, I didn’t get that far in my inquiry with this "agency, but all the other agencies I contacted work only to place the nanny. They’re paid a one-time service charge (usually a percentage of the nanny’s annual salary), they set up the interviews, and they work to make a suitable match (often, they have a trial period, too).
But–once the nanny is hired, we pay them directly, usually at the end of each work week. Presumably, though, we could pay the Hispanic workers whatever we wanted…and in case you haven’t done the math, $900/month is atrocious wages for the hours and work involved.