Results of Polls

What do you do about gift baskets at oriention?

  • We wait and have a gift basket-type thing waiting at our house for our new au pair (36%, 65 Votes)
  • We do not send any kind of gift to orientation. (14%, 25 Votes)
  • We send our own 'gift basket' to orientation (14%, 25 Votes)
  • We send a gift basket purchased from a third party (e.g., proflowers, au pair agency) (13%, 23 Votes)
  • Our agency does not allow them. (13%, 23 Votes)
  • Other options (please describe below) (8%, 14 Votes)
  • We send a letter, note, photos, something on paper. (2%, 8 Votes)

Total Voters: 189

Start Date: February 22, 2011 @ 9:13 pm
End Date: No Expiry

How much 'extra' cash do you give your au pair, annually? (Average more than one au pair)

  • One Week's stipend (25%, 132 Votes)
  • We do not give out au pair additional cash (anwser/option added late) (21%, 113 Votes)
  • Around $500-ish (19%, 102 Votes)
  • Two Weeks' stipend (17%, 91 Votes)
  • More than $500 (14%, 76 Votes)
  • Lots of extra money (discuss below) (4%, 18 Votes)

Total Voters: 537

Start Date: February 15, 2011 @ 6:13 pm
End Date: No Expiry

Paying Your Au Pair: Stipend, or more?

  • We round up to $200. (44%, 338 Votes)
  • We pay our au pair the official stipend. (34%, 264 Votes)
  • We pay our au pair $300 or more in stipend, not as payment for 'extra work' (6%, 45 Votes)
  • We add an additional $20-$40 per week, not for extra work but 'just because' (6%, 43 Votes)
  • We add an additional $50-$80 per week, not for extra work but 'just because' (4%, 31 Votes)
  • We pay our au pair and additional $85-$100 or more in stipend, not as payment for 'extra work' (3%, 24 Votes)
  • We do something else (add in comments). (3%, 22 Votes)

Total Voters: 767

Start Date: February 15, 2011 @ 6:10 pm
End Date: No Expiry

When do you prefer to send your Family Handbook?

  • During the interview process and before matching (31%, 68 Votes)
  • When the au pair gets to our house (29%, 63 Votes)
  • Once we have matched but before the au pair leaves home (26%, 57 Votes)
  • What's a Family Handbook? (7%, 15 Votes)
  • After the first week or so (4%, 8 Votes)
  • At the au pair orientation (1%, 3 Votes)
  • In dribs and drabs as s/he gets oriented (2%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 217

Start Date: January 6, 2011 @ 11:12 am
End Date: No Expiry

Should we bring our new Au Pair to a birthday party her second day?

  • Yes -- have your au pair jump right in! (61%, 106 Votes)
  • No -- let her get organized at home while the family goes to the party. (39%, 68 Votes)

Total Voters: 175

Start Date: January 6, 2011 @ 10:50 am
End Date: No Expiry

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