A growing number of Gen Z professionals are quitting high-pressure corporate jobs to take up roles that once seemed old-fashioned — becoming nannies for the ultra-rich. Once viewed as domestic work, these posts now come with salaries rivalling C-suite packages, lavish perks, and global travel.
According to various reports, some young women and men in their twenties are earning ₹1 crore or more per year, with access to private jets, five-star meals, and luxury residences — all while working for billionaires’ families.
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Cassidy O’Hagan, a 28-year-old originally from Colorado, exemplifies this emerging trend.
At the age of 22, she had taken on a temporary nannying job while preparing for the MCAT, and soon realised that working for a high-net-worth family offered both financial reward and personal alignment.
Cassidy said, “I realised very quickly after moving in that I had stepped into this completely different world.”
She revealed at the time that she did not think being a nanny could be enough, so she looked for a regular job afterwards. She soon got it too, and in 2021 joined the medical sales department at a large company in New York City.
However, her salary of $65,000 (~Rs. 60 lakh per annum), a competitive and “very male-dominated” environment, long work hours, and more left her feeling burned out and unfulfilled.
She quit her job soon enough and started to look seriously into being a nanny for “ultra high net worth families.”
Her new job increased by income by $40K, along with providing her with perks like chef-made meals, a new wardrobe that the family provided, and her Uber rides to and from work were also covered.
Today, O’Hagan works as a nanny for a billionaire family, and while a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) prevents her from revealing her exact salary, it is reportedly between $150,000–250,000 annually (more than ₹1.3 crore at the low end) alongside generous perks.
Her benefits include paid leave, healthcare and a 401(k), meals by a private chef, her own wardrobe for the role, chauffeur-driven transport and global travel, winters in Aspen, summers in the Hamptons, trips to Dubai, India and the Maldives via private jet.
She describes the job as a “night and day” shift from her previous corporate role: “My orthopaedic medical sales job could never compete,” she says.
But the glamour comes with caveats: it meant long hours, high expectations, and living alongside the family’s lifestyle rather than strictly 9-to-5.
“You’re not just working for a family—you’re living alongside them, immersed in their rhythms,” she explains.
Nonetheless, her story has resonated and shed light on the structural pull of this job category.
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The profession of “Private staffing” has been rising in recent years.
O’Hagan is not the only one venturing into this sector, but more and more Gen Z find taking on jobs as nannies, executive assistants, personal assistants, house managers, butlers, security staff, chauffeurs, and personal chefs for the ultra-wealthy as more lucrative than a regular 9 to 5 office job.
Before O’Hagan, Brian Daniel in 2007 started his company called Celebrity Personal Assistant Network, which, as per their site, is “an international household staffing agency for HNW families and celebrities. We specialise in assistants and estate managers.”
As per Daniel, at the time, he was among the few such people offering this service; however, today, he believes that across the world itself, there might be over 1,000 such agencies, with the US itself having 500 of them.
Daniel said, “The appetite is insatiable. The depth and the breadth of the wealth is just so staggering.”
A Business Insider report quoted him, adding that “There are so many wealthy people, and they’re not just buying one estate,” and how “There’s never been a better opportunity in history to get into private service, because each one of these billionaires employs small armies of people to cater to their every whim.”
He also explained that “There’s a very severe shortage across the board of elite staff. Oh, you need a place to stay? Here’s the guest house. Oh, you need a company car? Here you go. A 401k, guaranteed hours — I mean, they’re throwing in the kitchen sink.”
In 2023, the story of Gloria Richards, a Broadway and theatre actor who took up nannying for the ultra-rich as a side job, also went viral.
Richards, 34, speaking with CNBC Make It, said, “I could nanny for, like, two months at the top of the year, and I’d be fine for the rest of the year.” Richards was getting paid $167 per hour, along with flights and accommodation covered by her employers.
She also revealed that she sometimes earns around $2,000 per day for 12 to 15 hours of work, alongside getting to “travels the world by private jets and yachts, drives Porsches and Teslas on the job, and attends toddlers’ birthdays where iPads are party favors,” according to a CNBC report.
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Sources: Business Insider, The Economic Times, Hindustan Times
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