He sleeps through the night. He is disabled - meaning he can't walk to the bathroom himself or dress himself. He has his mind but needs his meals prepared etc. I pay her $20/hr plus the rent plus I got her a brand new SUV to drive him to appointments because he's tall and can't get into her sedan. Every week she has over 40 hours - sometimes 3 and sometimes 10. I also pay someone else to clean and someone else to be there 2 hours per day during the week and all day Sat and Sun so she can have time off. I feel like I'm massively overpaying - Am I? What is an appropriate pay for someone in Clearwater FL for this? She can go out after he goes to sleep at 8pm if she wants to.
They only bring home $800.00/week.
You have a good arrangement, I would not mess with that by talk of lowering the wage. In theory, and an agency would agree, that she should be paid through the night as well.
Rent is never a consideration of partial payment for a live in caregiver. Wouldn't she be responsible if something happened with dad in the night?
Where I live any hours over 8 in a day are paid 1.5x. Any hours over 48 in a week are double time.
So no, I do not think you are paying too much.
My own Dad was a fall risk, so he had 3 shifts of caregivers daily as he didn't know how to do all the things that my Mom use to do when she was alive. He was like a fish out of water when it came to what he called "women's work" [he was in his 90's]. He was paying $30/hr to the professional agency where the caregivers were employed.
You r a very good employer and yes, I think ur paying too much since she gets room and board too. But some may not agree with me. I don't think you can do much about her hourly pay now but I would question the overtime.