Quick answer
House manager jobs in Denver pay $30–$50/hr, with part-time family assistant roles starting around $26/hr. Full-time house managers earn $50,000–$120,000 a year, depending on scope and experience.
Most roles run part-time — 8–20 hours a week for family assistants, 20+ for house managers. No certification required. Nannies, teachers, restaurant managers, and parents returning to work move into these roles every day.
You’re Already Doing This Job
House manager jobs in Denver pay $30 to $50 an hour — and there’s a good chance you’re already doing the work. Denver’s job market is hot, but this is one career most people here have never considered.
If you’re a nanny whose kids are aging into school, a teacher done with the Denver Public Schools classroom, a restaurant manager burned out on closing shifts in RiNo, or a healthcare worker leaving bedside rotations at UCHealth or Children’s Hospital Colorado — the organizational skills you already have are worth $30 to $50 an hour as a house manager. Cherry Creek, Wash Park, and Boulder families are hiring for this role right now.
And there’s a good chance you didn’t know the career existed.
House Manager Jobs in Denver: What They Pay
In Denver, house managers earn $30 to $50 per hour. Part-time family assistant roles — the lighter, more task-focused entry point — start around $26 an hour. Family assistants typically work 8 to 20 hours a week; house managers work 20 hours up to full-time.
| Role | Hours | Denver pay |
|---|---|---|
| Family Assistant | 8–20 hrs/week | $26–$45/hr |
| House Manager | 20+ hrs/week to full-time | $30–$50/hr |
| House Manager (full-time) | Annual | $50,000–$120,000/yr |
Here’s how the house manager range breaks down by experience:
- $30–$38/hr. Career changers with strong transferable skills, or house managers building their first private-household client base. Common in Lakewood, Arvada, and the further-out neighborhoods.
- $38–$44/hr. Experienced house managers running full household operations. This is the band most dual-income Denver families hire into for 20 to 30 hours a week — Park Hill, Wash Park, Stapleton, Highlands Ranch, Littleton.
- $44–$50/hr. Senior professionals managing complex households, multiple children, or expanded scope like travel coordination, event planning, and property oversight. Cherry Creek, Cherry Hills Village, Greenwood Village, and Boulder roles often land here.
Full-time, that works out to $50,000 to $120,000 a year at Sage Haus, depending on scope and experience.
The broader market runs higher at the top end. Salary.com puts the Denver house manager average near $80,000. Nationally, the House Managers Network reports full-time house manager roles starting around $128,000 a year with benefits — those are high-net-worth, full-scope placements, but they show where the ceiling sits.
Denver is one of the strongest markets in the Mountain West for this work. Dual-income households cluster in Cherry Creek, Wash Park, and Boulder, and the year-round logistics load — snowplows, ski weekends, summer mountain travel, dogs that need exercising no matter the weather — keeps demand high.
House Manager vs. Family Assistant: Hours and Pay
These are the same skill set at two different sizes.
A family assistant handles the more task-based side — errands, scheduling, groceries, keeping the calendar straight — usually 8 to 20 hours a week. It’s the common entry point, starting around $26/hr.
A house manager runs the whole household as a system — vendors, logistics, inventory, the standing operations of the home — 20 hours a week up to full-time, at $30 to $50/hr.
Same instincts. The difference is scope and hours, not a different job. Many people start as a family assistant and grow into house manager as the family hands off more.
How Your Current Pay Compares
Here’s where the math gets interesting.
| Your current role | Typical Denver pay | As a house manager |
|---|---|---|
| Nanny | $22–$35/hr | $30–$50/hr (broader scope, more autonomy) |
| Teacher (K–8, DPS) | ~$58,000/yr | $50,000–$120,000/yr |
| Restaurant manager | ~$56,000/yr | $50,000–$120,000/yr |
| Executive assistant | $60,000–$75,000/yr | $50,000–$120,000/yr |
DPS teachers make about $58,000. House managers make $50,000 to $120,000. Same organizational skills. Different ceiling.
Restaurant managers in RiNo work nights, weekends, and holidays for around $56,000. House managers work flexible hours in one home for the same or more.
If you’re a nanny and the kids are aging into Kent Denver or Graland, your hours are about to shrink. Your skills aren’t. They’ve been growing the whole time. House management is the role that matches what you’re already doing.
What a House Manager Actually Does in Denver
A house manager runs the household as a system. They hold the operating logic of the home — the standing orders, the vendor relationships, the calendar, the mental load a family usually carries in their heads. They carry it instead, and they build the systems so it runs without anyone having to remember everything.
In practice, that looks like:
- Meal planning, grocery shopping, and prep. King Soopers, Whole Foods on Colorado Boulevard, the Cherry Creek farmers market. Dinner’s handled when the family walks in.
- Laundry and household organization. Folded, put away — not sitting in the dryer for three days.
- Errand running and scheduling. Appointments booked, prescriptions picked up, dry cleaning dropped off.
- Vendor coordination. The snowplow guy in January, the gutter cleaner, the HVAC tech, the gardener. You manage them so the family doesn’t.
- Household inventory. You know they’re low on paper towels before they do.
- Calendar and logistics. School forms, birthday RSVPs, ski camp registration, the family’s Vail weekend.
Scope flexes with the family. Some start with groceries and laundry. Others hand off the full household on day one. Part-time roles are the most common entry point in Denver — 8 to 20 hours a week as a family assistant, 20 and up as a house manager.
Do You Need a Certification to Become a House Manager?
No formal qualification is required. Denver families are looking for someone who sees the whole picture, takes initiative, and treats the home like a professional operation.
The skills that carry over directly:
- From nannying. You already know how a household runs. The move is about scope, not starting over.
- From teaching. Organization, patience, scheduling, juggling competing priorities. You’ve been running project management in a classroom for years.
- From hospitality. Logistics under pressure, vendor management, service standards, reading what people need before they ask.
- From admin or EA work. Calendar management, coordination, systems thinking. You’ve been running someone else’s operation — now the operation is a home.
- From running your own household. A few years doing this is real experience: project management, vendor coordination, budgeting, scheduling, logistics. Many of Denver’s strongest house managers come from exactly this background.
What gets you hired is the instinct to build systems, anticipate needs, and take ownership.
What Sage Haus Does Differently
Most staffing agencies hand over a resume and disappear. Sage Haus works differently.
We match qualified candidates with families who treat this as a real career — real pay, real benefits, room to grow. We vet families as carefully as we vet candidates, because you deserve to know who you’re walking into.
In practice:
- We push for your pay. We know the Denver market — Cherry Creek, Wash Park, Highlands, Boulder, Greenwood Village — and we make sure families understand what the role is worth.
- We support your onboarding, including our Home Systems Playbook, the first onboarding system built for the house manager role.
- We place across the US and Canada with local hiring experts who know your market.
Sage Haus works as your advocate. The family signs your paycheck — we’re the ones in your corner on pay, scope, and fit.
Who Thrives as a House Manager
The families who hire through Sage Haus aren’t looking for perfection. They want someone who sees the whole picture, takes initiative, and treats the home like a professional operation.
If that sounds like what you already do — in a DPS classroom, a RiNo restaurant, someone else’s home in Cherry Creek, or your own house in Arvada — you’re closer than you think.
Five things that predict success in the role:
- Systems thinking. You organize complexity, not just tasks.
- Service orientation. You anticipate needs before being asked.
- Reliability. You’ve stayed somewhere long enough to build something.
- Professional warmth. You can be warm and hold boundaries.
- Curiosity. You ask about the family’s needs, not just the pay and hours.
See What This Looks Like for You
$30 to $50 an hour in Denver, $26 to start as a family assistant. Part-time or full-time. Flexible schedules. A real title and real growth.
View Open Roles → Find house manager and family assistant roles near you in Denver, Boulder, Cherry Creek, Highlands Ranch, and Littleton.
Frequently Asked Questions: House Manager Jobs Denver
Sage Haus places house managers and family assistants with vetted Denver families — Cherry Creek, Wash Park, Highlands Ranch, Boulder, Greenwood Village, and more. Take the 3-minute quiz to see if the role fits, then view open roles near you.
House managers in Denver earn $30–$50/hr. Part-time family assistant roles start around $26/hr. Full-time house managers earn $50,000–$120,000 a year at Sage Haus, depending on scope and experience. Senior roles in Cherry Hills Village, Greenwood Village, and Boulder sit at the top of the range.
No certification is required. Families hire on systems thinking, reliability, and service orientation. Nannies, teachers, restaurant managers, hospitality professionals, executive assistants, and parents returning to work all move into the role successfully.
They’re the same skill set at two sizes. A family assistant handles task-based work — errands, scheduling, groceries — usually 8–20 hours a week, starting around $26/hr. A house manager runs the full household as a system — vendors, logistics, inventory — 20 hours a week up to full-time, at $30–$50/hr.
Yes. Entry-level house managers in Denver start around $30–$38/hr. Experienced managers reach $44–$50/hr, and full-time roles run $50,000–$120,000 a year at Sage Haus. The path continues into estate management and chief-of-staff roles.
A few years running your own household is real experience — project management, vendor coordination, budgeting, scheduling, and logistics. Many of Denver’s strongest house managers come from exactly this background.
Sources
- Salary.com — House Manager Salary, Denver (avg $80,193 as of Jul 2025)
- ZipRecruiter — House Manager Salary, Denver
- House Managers Network — Salary Guide (full-time roles starting ~$128K with benefits)
- Colorado Dept. of Labor & Employment — COMPS Order, 2026 minimum wage $15.16/hr
- City & County of Denver — 2026 minimum wage $19.29/hr
- Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act (HFWA) — paid sick leave
- Colorado FAMLI — paid family & medical leave
- Colorado COMPS Order — overtime (confirm household-employee applicability)
- IRS Publication 926 — Household Employer’s Tax Guide
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