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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had one for 6-12 hours a week and we paid her $40 an hour in Chicago.

The absolute best part about it for me is she tackled our long list of home maintenance and home improvement task backlog.  She'd get 3 quotes for each task, make her recommendation for it, and manage them to the extent I wanted (could be at our house while they're here or just hand them off to me). She definitely saved us a lot of money with the multiple quotes which is time i'd never put into it.

She also helped with organization, cleaning out and dropping off donations, managing returns, wrapping xmas gifts, one off heavy cleaning tasks like our fridge or the air fryer, walked the dog on occasion, took our cars for maintenance and cleaning

It was all the stuff we never got to but would make our lives better / less overwhelming feeling[/quote]

Also she was a professional house manager who also ran a staffing agency so I'd assume her rates were the norm for her level of experience.  I'd originally been looking for a college student just to help with the easy stuff (errands etc) but didn't realize the difference in what someone who is good at this can do.  I know a lot of people have their nanny take on more household tasks but particularly if you're using them for house maintenance type things - the types of questions a nanny taking on a new role would ask a potential contractor versus an experienced house manager would ask (including things like options for different repairs, why they recommend one approach and another recommended another, whether they use subcontracts etc) are wildly different [/quote]

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