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Cleaners, a nanny, a dog walker. And still nobody at the center.
A house manager is the layer above the help you already have, not a replacement for it. You've hired the parts: someone for the floors, someone for the kids, someone for the dog. What nobody owns is the whole: the supplies, the vendors, the calendar, the list of what's about to go wrong. That is the house manager's job. It sits above the help you have and makes it work.
Bring the list of who already comes to the house.
Between the cleaner's visits
Laundry on, pantry restocked, plumber let in. The help you have stays.
Most families with help in place start at 15 to 25 hours a week.
- 10,000+ families supported
- 90-day guarantee
- Flat fee, never a % of salary
What people are saying
Families who stopped doing everything themselves.
“From finding a house manager to helping us implement home systems, this experience has been a game-changer. I finally feel like I'm not doing everything myself, and our home runs smoother, even with two careers and two kids.”
The unowned layer
Everything between the cleaner's visit and the nanny's hours: supplies, vendors, returns, the calendar, the resets. The part that still lands on you at 9pm.
Manages the rest
A house manager can run the cleaners, the landscaper and the dog walker, so you stop being the household's project manager.
15–25 hrs
Most families with help already in place start part-time. The role is coordination and ownership, not more hours of labor.
The gap
Your help covers the parts. A house manager connects them.
Each person you've hired does their job well and goes home. The thing that never goes home is the keeping-track. A house manager takes that, and the people you already have keep doing what they do.
What you have now
- Cleaners on a schedule; between visits, the resets fall to you
- A nanny whose job is the children
- A dog walker, a landscaper, a handyman, each needing to be called, scheduled and paid
- A virtual assistant handling the admin from a distance
- You, deciding, chasing and restocking
What the house manager adds
- Owns the daily reset, the supplies and the systems
- Manages the vendors: schedules, lets them in, follows up
- Runs the calendar and the errands nobody has
- Meals and groceries, if that's where the gap is
- Reports to you weekly instead of asking you daily
Not sure what the gap is? Bring your list of who comes to the house. We'll find the layer nobody owns.
Seen enough? Pick a time now.
A free 30-minute group call with a Sage Haus hiring specialist. No obligation, and the fee is covered live.
What you'll get
A role built around the help you already have.
1
Kickoff call with your specialist
We map who already comes, what they cover, and what falls between them.
2
A job description for the gap
Ownership of the whole: supplies, vendors, systems, calendar, resets. Written so your existing help stays in place.
3
Vetted finalists, interviews arranged
Sourced, screened and interviewed by a person. References and a background check before any offer.
4
Onboarding and a 90-day guarantee
An onboarding call, a six-week check-in, and a one-time re-match within 90 days if the fit isn't right.
Keeping the nanny?
The two roles sit side by side.
One family below has a nanny on the youngest and a house manager on the household. Neither replaces the other.
Keeping the cleaners?
The house manager puts the house back before they arrive.
Daily resets between visits are the most common first task. The cleaners stay; the mess in between goes.
Case studies
Plenty of help. Nobody owning the rest.
The Brackley family · Dual-Executives
Cleaners, a dog walker, a virtual assistant — and still nobody at the centre.
Two demanding careers with travel on both sides, a spirited toddler about to start preschool, a small dog, and a grandmother at the heart of a busy suburban home.
The Ambleside family · Dual-Physicians
Plenty of help. Nobody owning the rest.
A physician and a professor in the Southeast with a full house of children, and genuinely good help already in place — a nanny covering the youngest, pickups, several meals a week.
The Harrowgate family · Dual-Income
Cleaners twice a week — and nobody running the whole.
Two full-time working parents with heavy travel and a blended household, the children with them half of each week and old enough to need logistics rather than childcare.
The Selby family · Already Have Help
A rural coastal town. Four weeks. Done.
Two partners with long-hour, high-stress jobs in a rural coastal town in the Pacific Northwest — the kind of place where the nearest city is a real drive and the local hiring pool is thin.
The Aldous family · Dual-Physicians
One parent home. One on the road for the whole season.
A physician whose partner works in professional sport, which means months at a stretch on the road — and one parent effectively solo with four daughters from toddler to teenager.
The Ashby family · Activity-Heavy Family
Two trial lawyers, two kids, a dog, a cat, and a 3:45 pickup.
Two attorneys in the city, with two independent and very funny school-age children whose weeks run from breakdancing to tennis to skateboarding, plus a dog and a cat.
Read all the stories at sagehaus.com/case-studies.
Not ready to book? Take the three-minute quiz.
It builds a scope for your family: the hours, the tasks and the kind of role that fits. You get the result straight away.
The numbers
What the help you have costs, and what the layer above it adds.
Put in the cleaner, the sitter, the delivery and the rest. The calculator shows the total, your own hours on top, and the return on adding a house manager at 15 to 20 hours a week.
- The cost today, including your own time
- A house manager at the hours and rate you choose
- Return on the search at one and two years
How the calculator works
- 1What you pay today for sitters, delivery, cleaners and errands, plus the hours you put in yourself
- 2A house manager at the hours and rate you choose, with W-2 costs if you want them
- 3How you find them: a flat fee, an agency percentage, or your own time
- 4The return on the search at one and two years, and the hours you get back
Nothing is filled in for you. Add the Sage Haus fee from your call when you have it.
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Ready for support?
A free 30-minute call with a Sage Haus hiring specialist. We'll look at your week, tell you honestly what kind of role fits, and if a search makes sense, what it would look like for your family.
More from our families
What changes after the hire.
“Our home finally has a sense of forward momentum.”
“Our home runs smoothly, appointments and schedules are handled, and I finally feel present with my family instead of overwhelmed by a never ending to-do list.”
“Things that caused us personal guilt and angst when we didn't get them done, or got them done poorly … are now done almost in the background. … We are more relaxed and present people.”
Questions families ask
Before you book.
We already pay for a lot of help. Why add another person?
Because nobody you have owns the whole. The house manager coordinates the help you pay for, fills the gaps between them and takes the keeping-track off you. You may find a service or two becomes unnecessary once someone owns the system.
Free resource: The mental load, explained and time and cost calculator
Will the house manager manage our cleaners and nanny?
The cleaners, landscaper, dog walker and handyman, yes: scheduling, access, follow-up. A nanny usually reports to you directly; the house manager works alongside them on the household.
How many hours does this role need?
Most start at 15 to 25 hours a week. With help already in place the role is ownership and coordination, so it rarely needs full-time hours at the start.
What will I pay the house manager?
A coordination-heavy role at 15 to 25 hours usually sits at the lower end of the weekly cost. Typically $25 to $50 an hour depending on scope and location, higher in New York and the Bay Area. They're a W-2 household employee; we point you to a payroll partner that handles taxes and pay stubs. Our own fee is covered on the call.
Free resource: time and cost calculator
How do you vet candidates?
Your existing help stays; the new hire is vetted like every Sage Haus candidate. Regional hiring specialists source from local boards and our certified talent pool. Every candidate is screened and interviewed by a human before you meet them. References, a background check and an employment agreement come before any offer, and a one-time re-match is available within 90 days.
How long does it take?
Because the role is built around help already in place, the job description is quick to write. About four to six weeks from an approved job description to your first candidates. If you have a date in mind, we work back from it.
What if it doesn't work out?
If the person doesn't fit alongside the help you have, the guarantee covers the change. A one-time re-match with up to two new candidates inside the first 90 days, no extra fee, provided you did the onboarding call and the six-week check-in with us.
My partner thinks we have enough help.
Bring them to the call, or start with our guide for the conversation at home.
Free resource: Pitch in the Kitchen and the calculator
Do you cover my area?
Households with help already in place come to us from every region. Families across the United States and Canada, with regional specialists who know the local market. Rural and small-town searches take a little longer; tell us where you are on the call.