Household manager?
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Anonymous
| If you have one, what duties to they tend to? |
Anonymous
| You mean housekeeper? |
Anonymous
That term feels outdated, but perhaps we are referring to the same role. Someone who manages the logistics of the household, aside from cleaning. |
Anonymous
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I was a household manager for 12 years and have been recruiting, screening, and placing them with families for 6+ years through my agency.
It depends if this will be a nanny/household manager hybrid role or strictly household manager, but in general the duties encompass everything to keep the home running and organized outside of actual deep cleaning (which is housekeepers/cleaning lady duties). Typical duties includes: Errands Organizational tasks (cleaning out fridge, pantry, closets, storage) Booking appointments Managing routine home and car maintanence Groceries/stocking household items Meal prep Planning and booking (vacations, kids activities, vendors, contractors, etc) Seasonal tasks (Christmas cards, gift shopping, wrapping, decorating, making sure kids have seasonally appropriate gear) Vets/grooming appts/feeding/walking pets Sorting and donating clothes/toys Managing family/school calendars Packing lunches/laying out clothes for the next day Generally putting things back in their places Laundry |
Anonymous
| They are not the same. A housekeeper just cleans. A manager manages all house maintenance, pays house- related bills, orders groceries, supplies. Etc. They would schedule and manage the housekeeper, nanny, landscaping etc. |
Anonymous
| I only have one friend who has a house manager who actually lives in a house on the property. The house manager manages everything from the cleaning staff, catering, gardens, maintenance, etc. They live in Potomac and their house is about 11,000 square feet. They also have a guest house and a pool house. The grounds are lovely. They have an English garden so that takes a lot of work. My friend does not work and her kids attend boarding school. |
Anonymous
| Is this a job in modern day America? Sounds like a natural fit for me after staying home to handle all this and more for my family. How much do they make? |
Anonymous
I had an acquaintance who took this job after SAH with 5 kids. She was making 90 about ten years ago. |
Anonymous
How much would this pay? |
Anonymous
| My cousin was one - she was basically the SAH spouse to the family. She also watched two ES kids after school but not all do. |
Anonymous
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As people have responded a household manager can have a lot of different duties depending on the size of the household they are managing. The pay range corresponds to the differing levels of responsibility that come with different sizes and types of households. It is also harder to dictate job description if you are going through an agency. You'll have more flexibility if you can find the person on your own.
I am going to assume you are DC UMC rich like me, not rich, rich. Rich, rich people don't need to ask these questions on a forum. I have teens at home. We have a "nanny manager" right now. Husband and I have been discussing whether we want to morph her position into a household manager when our youngest graduates or just switch to a fulltime housekeeper who will do deep cleaning, laundry, and some meal prep. Household manager duties for our current nanny manager would include: *run errands *"supervise" housecleaning service, handyman service, landscape service *grocery shop and put away/organize groceries *meal prep *organize spaces as directed *water indoor plants *walk pets when no one is home *organize mail *neaten and tidy throughout day |
Anonymous
| I have a friend who is a household manager/nanny. She does all the things I do as a SAHM, except she outsources deep cleaning the house and yard work. She makes breakfast for the family, gets the kids off to school, cooks, light cleaning, organizes the house, gets maintenance scheduled, makes sure all gifts for parties are purchased, helps kids with homework, makes dinner. |
Anonymous
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My nanny has morphed into a household manager of sorts and she can have that role for a long time. She needed 40 hours, and we really only need help from 3-6 every day, so we created a roll that includes:
1. Meal prep or cooking depending on the night 2. Grocery shopping 3. Prepares kids' lunches for the next day 4. Kids' laundry 5. Run errands - things like birthday presents for kids sports equipment (get ice skates sharpened, bikes tuned, tennis rackets repaired, skis waxed before a vacation, pick up things we need that would otherwise take me forever). 6. Home organization 7. Helps with homework sometimes 8. Drives kids around to activities (we divide and conquer). 9. Meets with home repair people (I still order the services but she deals with them). 10. Random tasks, like this week she's wrapping Christmas presents and getting gifts ready for teachers. |
Anonymous
PP here and average is $32-35hr, two weeks paid vacation, 5 sick days, and paid holidays. Some families also offer a monthly health insurance stipend. |
Anonymous
| This is the exact position I am currently looking for |