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Two careers at full stretch. One household with no owner.
A house manager who anticipates is the hire two demanding careers need at home. Opposite shifts, travel weeks, a rota that cycles through nights and weekends. You both run teams at work and come home to a house nobody is running. A house manager who anticipates, placed with the discretion and speed your week needs.
We'll fit it between clinic and the school run.
Home from the shift
A stocked fridge and a reset house, not a second shift.
One family we placed: two physicians on opposite shifts, 18 to 23 hours a week.
- 10,000+ families supported
- 90-day guarantee
- Flat fee, never a % of salary
What people are saying
Busy professionals on why this hire was different.
“Because they took the burden of hiring off our shoulders, we regained time and headspace to devote to what matters: family, work and growth.”
Anticipates
The brief in most of these households is the same: someone who sees what's coming and handles it without being asked. That's who we recruit for.
Discretion
Background check, references and an employment agreement before any offer. Your household details stay inside the search.
4–6 weeks
From an approved job description to your first candidates. The kickoff is a video call; we do the rest around your schedule.
The gap
You have a team at work. You need one at home.
The households below all had some help. What they lacked was the person who runs the operation: the one who owns the list, manages the vendors and makes the house work around two unpredictable calendars.
What's happening now
- Every free hour goes to catch-up: laundry, errands, the fridge
- Weekends disappear into the house
- The partner with the lighter week carries the home, and resents it
- The cleaners come, and by Tuesday the resets are yours again
- A rota or travel week means nobody is home to decide
What the house manager owns
- The running of the home around both calendars
- Meals planned and prepped, the kitchen stocked
- Supplies, vendors, repairs, returns, the dog
- The children's logistics when you're both on
- A weekly report instead of a daily question
Two calendars you can't predict? That's exactly what the kickoff call maps.
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 search that respects your calendar.
1
Kickoff call with your specialist
On video, at a time that works. We map both weeks, the house and what breaks first.
2
A job description that anticipates
Household operations first, written to attract people who run things without being asked.
3
Vetted finalists, interviews arranged
Sourced, screened and interviewed by a person. You meet two or three finalists at times that work for a clinic or a board calendar.
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.
Physicians
Nine physician households placed.
Opposite shifts, rotas, a day off that went to errands. The role is built around the rota, not around a nine-to-five.
Executives
Someone who manages themselves.
The brief from one executive: this hire had to manage itself. That is the certified house manager's job description.
Case studies
Two careers. One household, finally run.
The Danforth family · Dual-Physicians
Two physicians. Opposite shifts. One list nobody was home to own.
Two physicians working opposite ends of the clock — one nights, one days.
The Gable family · Dual-Executives
Someone who anticipates. That was the whole brief.
An executive who travels often, a partner holding down two elementary-school children with a heavy after-school calendar, and a household where something always needed managing — which meant nobody ever felt off duty..
The Zeller family · Dual-Physicians
Her hours are random. The house no longer is.
A hospital-based physician working long, unpredictable shifts — sometimes a full day and night at a stretch — with three children aged eight and under and a partner splitting time between home and office.
The Jessop family · Dual-Executives
She manages a large team at work. This hire had to manage itself.
Two working parents on the West Coast with two children in elementary school — one parent commuting into the city several days a week, the other back to frequent travel.
The Ellery family · Dual-Executives
Two promotions in the same year. The house didn't get one.
Both parents were promoted inside the same year, and their youngest started at a school half an hour from home.
The Ivorston family · Dual-Physicians
Food as medicine, in a town with no candidate pool.
A dual-physician family in a small Southern city.
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
Two salaries against one household's hours.
The calculator values your time at your own rate or your household salary and shows what the house's hours cost you now.
- The cost today, including your own time
- Hours you get back each week
- 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.
Book a call
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.
“We no longer have to choose between a big work deliverable and making sure the family is ready for tomorrow.”
“SageHaus didn't just help us hire someone; they helped us regain balance as a family.”
“I can confidently say this has been one of the best investments we've ever made in our family's quality of life.”
Questions families ask
Before you book.
How much of our time does the search take?
A kickoff call, feedback on the job description, two or three finalist interviews and a decision. We do the sourcing, screening and scheduling.
Can the role work around a rota or heavy travel?
Yes. Several of the families above have opposite shifts or months of travel. The job description sets the hours around your real week, and it can shift as the rota does.
How discreet is the process?
Your household details stay inside the search, and candidates are screened by a person before they meet you. References, a background check and an employment agreement come before any offer.
What does a house manager actually do all day?
The household, not the children: the daily reset, laundry, kitchen and meal prep, groceries and supplies, the family calendar, vendors, errands and returns. Childcare can be scoped in around the edges.
Free resource: The mental load, explained and time and cost calculator
What will I pay the house manager?
Dual-career households often start at 18 to 25 hours and grow the role. 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?
Discretion starts with vetting: every candidate is screened by a person before they meet you. 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?
The search runs around your calendar; the kickoff is a video call. 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 role needs to change with a new rota, the guarantee covers it. 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 can keep managing it ourselves.
Run the calculator together: two salaries against the hours the house takes. Then bring them to the call.
Free resource: Pitch in the Kitchen and the calculator
Do you cover my area?
Physician and executive households have come to us from every region of the US. 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.