Many years ago when I started my nanny position, I really didn't know that a nanny was just to do for the children and no one else. Therefore, being the energetic, neat and tidy person I am I would engaged myself in doing all kind of things to keep me busy while the kids were in school. The children were in school from 9:00 am until 3:00 or there about I would walked them to school, then I would walked back to get them. Back at the house, I couldn't sit and look at mess I wasn't raised in a pigs' pen. We were as poor as a church mice but our home was fit for a King always clean and tidy you could eat off our floors. Therefore, I would tear my employers home down and put them back before time to pick up the children. I never gotten any extra money for the extra work done and neither did I care. One year one of my employers were going to Paris for work and the other would be following later to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Therefore, they asked me if I would stay with the boys for the week so I happily said yes. To make a long story short when the came back they almost didn't recognized their home. The gentleman came to me one day and said if we give you such and such more money per week would you continue to do what you did for us...and that was how I got from a nanny to a house manager...I really don't care about labels I just like doing what I do. Money is good and we all have bills to pay but at the end of the day it's what makes all of us happy the most.....employers and employees......They have clean homes, happy, clean and fed children to come home to, and we the employees have money to pay our bills and fed our families.....what so bad about that.....labels...please.

Lol. Funny how so many parents want to believe the "nanny household manager" should be doing their cleaning.
What a joke.

House management generally covers managing everything for the house.

It could be as simple as:
Dealing with contractors when they’re at the house
Doing family and household shopping.
Managing one or two other household staff

Or as complex as:
Manage everything related to car and house maintenance, including scheduling and paying them. Negotiating large jobs moves toward estate management.
Manage multiple household staff members, but almost never the chef.
Handle household budgets, bills and payroll.
Personal assistant duties, like calendar management and travel arrangements.
Packing and unpacking for the family.
Event preparation and execution.
Etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Generally, there are a few parameters: Nannies care for children and take care of anything concerning the children. Housekeepers take care of the house, possibly taking cooking and/or laundry for the children from the nanny's duties, and it may include shopping and errands. Obviously a chef would be in charge of cooking for the household, usually employees as well as family, and frequently they do the grocery shopping. A household manager manages the house and all employees within the house; in larger households, it's a butler position, while the state manager manages everyone and everything outside of the house. In smaller households, a house manager can take on various positions, combining everything into one role, but it takes a lot of experience and they are paid very, very well. Many families employ a nanny/housekeeper and simply call her a household manager once the kids are in school full time.

I have never heard of a house manager who does the actual cleaning. House managers oversee the housekeeper.

Exactly. A manager has people to manage, besides the child.

As I said, many families hire a nanny/housekeeper, then call her a nanny/household manager. I’ve apppoied for several household manager positions only to interview and figure out what they actually wanted, at which point I ended the interview.

Those parents want a cleaner who agrees to keep an eye on the kids while they unwind and chill on the IPad.

No, they wanted a nanny who could teach the toddlers and preschoolers while also sterilizing the house. I pointed out that young children have no business being next to a adult using chemicals, and that it takes 2-3 times as long to clean with children in tow. Every single one of those parents believed that they could consolidate a daily housekeeper and nanny into one position, and their current employees quit when told what they intended. No idea if they found what they wanted, but I wasn’t going to stay and listen to their insanity.

Anonymous wrote:What are the duties of a House Manager?

TIA

It depends on how many people there are to manage.

You could drive a bus through that range

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Anonymous wrote:Our nanny has evolved into a housemanager as our kids are all at school.
She has worked for us for four years and each year we give her a raise.
She definitely adds a lot of value even though she also has a lot of down time, I’m curious what other HMs are getting paid and if this levels off st some point

If anyone has an intelligent answer to this question I’d love to hear it please.
A lot of trolls around this week

I just googled "house managers" and saw a range of
$50,000 - $100,000.

Anonymous wrote:Our nanny has evolved into a housemanager as our kids are all at school.
She has worked for us for four years and each year we give her a raise.
She definitely adds a lot of value even though she also has a lot of down time, I’m curious what other HMs are getting paid and if this levels off st some point

If anyone has an intelligent answer to this question I’d love to hear it please.
A lot of trolls around this week

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Anonymous wrote:Our nanny has evolved into a housemanager as our kids are all at school.
She has worked for us for four years and each year we give her a raise.
She definitely adds a lot of value even though she also has a lot of down time, I’m curious what other HMs are getting paid and if this levels off st some point

Doesn't the basic cost of living go up every year?

Of course but once you get to $30+\hour it gets prohibitively expensive

Nothing is prohibitively expensive for some families. It all depends on the worth of the nanny to the family.

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Anonymous wrote:Our nanny has evolved into a housemanager as our kids are all at school.
She has worked for us for four years and each year we give her a raise.
She definitely adds a lot of value even though she also has a lot of down time, I’m curious what other HMs are getting paid and if this levels off st some point

Doesn't the basic cost of living go up every year?

Of course but once you get to $30+\hour it gets prohibitively expensive