While I agree with Donna Barlow's comments in her letter ('Beggaring belief', 25 October) that nursery nurses are paid well below their value, I am annoyed with her suggestion that nursery owners are creaming off vast profits at the workers' expense.
Staff pay accounts for more than 60 per cent of our income. Then there are the rent, rates, electricity and insurance costs and all the other expenses too numerous to mention. At the end, our return for the investment we put into the business is very small. Some months I take home less than our top earner and my daughter takes nothing.
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