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At Morgan & Mallet, we place experienced, trained, professional private caregivers for families across the US.
We know how hard it is to find a caregiver you can trust with your relative. That’s why, when we place private caregivers, we make sure only dedicated professionals with vetted qualifications reach your family’s doorstep.
A caregiver takes care of personal hygiene, meals, and medication reminders all while providing your family member with warm company. Finding the right caregiver, someone you can trust with your loved ones at their most vulnerable moments, is hard.
With a caregiver from Morgan & Mallet, we call past employers to hear how they were with the person in their care. Criminal background checks follow the rules of your state and city.
Only one in four candidates passes through our vetting process so that you get handpicked caregivers who protect your parent’s dignity and privacy.
Our recruiters have turned down 78% of the caregiver applications they reached a decision on since 2017.
By hiring a private caregiver you get the promise of continuous and consistent care for your elderly parents or adult children with complex needs.
Whenever you’re ready, call us at +1 (646) 965-2308 and tell us what your loved one’s day looks like and we can start the search.
Source: our candidate database, the caregiver applications our recruiters decided on since 2017. How we count
A live-in caregiver lives in your relative’s house and helps with daily upkeep. A caregiver is there so your family member can stay safely at home, with familiar company beside them.
The main duties of a caregiver fall under a few categories:
The briefs families in the US have given us since 2024 are all quite similar. They all included companionship, cooking, driving and trips to the doctor.
86% wanted reminders to take medication or to pick up prescriptions, and as many asked for light housekeeping or laundry.
Hands-on care was mentioned less though. 71% wanted help moving around safely, and 57% help with washing and dressing.
| Request | Share of briefs |
|---|---|
| Companionship | 100% |
| Cooking | 100% |
| Driving | 100% |
| Trips to the doctor | 100% |
| Medication reminders or prescriptions | 86% |
| Light housekeeping or laundry | 86% |
| Help moving around safely | 71% |
| Help with washing and dressing | 57% |
Few jobs in a house get this close. In the words of co-founder Morgan Richez:
“If we’re talking about [a] caregiver, [it] is completely different, because we take care of someone. Sometimes it [gets] very personal, the relationship, because you are going to assist them in private things to do every day.”
A caregiver supports the physical and mental well-being of your loved one but is not a stand-in for a medical nurse.
You can let us know your needs during your consultation call and our recruiters can guide you on whether you need a caregiver or private nurse.
Source: Morgan & Mallet job briefs, US caregiver and companion searches, July 2024 to June 2026. How we count
With agency home care, the company directly employs the caregiver with a fixed set of hours for the caregiver to work. The one issue you can run into is continuity.
The agency can try to set up the same caregiver to reach your home but it depends on their shift availability and rotation. This setup works best for a short-term period with room for flexibility in care hours.
Hiring alone means finding someone yourself, through a friend’s recommendation or through a job post you write. It’s a more personal route, where you meet each candidate and see for yourself if they fit well in your home.
It’s the cheapest option of the three but can also be the riskiest. As the sole employer, you have to screen the candidate’s background and stay on top of contracts and payroll services to avoid legal troubles down the line.
Our recruiters at Morgan & Mallet cover in-depth background and criminal checks to source private caregivers who fit in your home.
Here, you get to be the direct employer for one employee who shows up and stays with you for years to come.
But our recruiters guide you and connect you with legal advisors for preparing contracts that align with your state’s labor laws.
Wanting care at home is the usual reason families choose their own caregiver, and it brings a strong amount of inquiries.
9% of the inquiries from the US on our website between late April and mid-June 2026 were for a caregiver.
“We have a lot of clients who need [a] caregiver, but [a live-in] caregiver, because they don’t want to go in[to] a care home,” says co-founder Laurine Mallet. “They would prefer to have their own staff inside the property.”
Source: hire-staff inquiries from the US on our website, 29 April to 16 June 2026. How we count
Outside of legal risks, the real trouble in hiring a caregiver on your own is placing the care of your family member in the hands of an unvetted stranger.
Laurine Mallet, our co-founder, says the caregiver role is one of the hardest to verify.
Finding applicants is the easy part. Each caregiver brief we advertised in the US had 68 applicants on average, nearly twice the 37 that a typical US job ad of ours received over every role.
| Job ads | Applicants per search |
|---|---|
| US caregiver searches | 68 |
| All our US job ads | 37 |
Her fellow co-founder Morgan Richez agrees:
“There [are] many candidates, a lot. We can find some people, but it’s very important to find someone we can trust, because they work with very old people or disabled people.”
That’s why we start with identity and background checks, catching things that usually slip by. Our recruiters once caught a fake ID with the help of our company screening tools.
If that ID had been accepted, the background check would’ve come back clean on the wrong person.
For each role, we ask candidates to give references that our recruiters then later verify by phone. A phone call means we get to know how the caregiver showed care to their employer without rehearsed written answers.
Co-founder Morgan Richez says,
“We need at least two references so we can compare. We don’t introduce anyone without checking their references. Otherwise, it’s a big mistake.”
Checking the authenticity of diplomas and certifications from hospitals and care centers comes next. First aid and CPR training is vital for caregiving roles.
This ensures that we place caregivers who have the right experience for your relative’s dementia, limited mobility, or post-surgery support.
Families seem to expect it too. 71% of the caregiver briefs in the US we’ve worked on asked for CPR or first aid training.
Where driving is a part of the role, we look at DMV driving records. They show whether the caregiver has a history of reckless driving.
Although we are not legal advisors, our recruiters can still help you out with employment laws, taxes, and payroll when needed.
Every placement comes with a three-month replacement guarantee. If the fit is wrong, we search again at no cost.
Source: Morgan & Mallet job ads and applicants, US caregiver and companion searches, July 2024 to June 2026, and all our US job ads in every role, May 2022 to June 2026. How we count
A live-in caregiver is one person who lives in the home, works according to a daily schedule and sleeps at night in the same home. Working hours can be outside regular hours, like arrangements for occasional night needs.
Live-in care suits your parent if they need the assurance of company throughout the day. The caregiver does their chores around the house, helping with the routine, and then sleeps overnight.
Live-out work is a big share of our caregiver jobs in the US, which is probably more than you would expect in this role. Here is how the two compared in the searches we did for US homes.
The pay is what was in our briefs.
| In our US caregiver searches, 2024 to 2026 | Live-in | Live-out or shifts |
|---|---|---|
| Share of searches | 43% | 57% |
| Pay we advertised | $65,000 to $75,000 a year (2024); $95,000 to $125,000 a year (2025); $40 to $50 an hour (2025) | $35 to $45 an hour (2025); $40 to $50 an hour plus benefits and a 401(k) (2026) |
| Hours | 10 to 12 hour days, with two caregivers sharing the week; or a full day with evenings free | Weekday hours; or 12-hour day or overnight shifts, 36 to 48 hours a week |
| What the family provided | A private room and bathroom, or an apartment next door, plus meals | Pay only, in most jobs; one family also provided a car for appointments |
| Applicants per search | about 125 | about 78 |
Live-in jobs had more applicants, partly because housing is part of the pay. Abroad, live-in is more common than in the US in our briefs. 56% of our 88 caregiver searches in 10 countries since 2022 were live-in.
24-hour care means more than one person working in shifts to care for your loved one around the clock. They work in shift rotation, so someone is awake at all times to meet any needs.
With 24-hour care, it cannot be left to one person since they cannot be awake for the whole day, seven days a week.
This setup involves a rotating schedule where one takes care of the day while the other takes care of the night shift.
Splitting up the week with another caregiver is common. In 18% of all our caregiver searches, the job was done by two caregivers.
Shift care is best when your family member has advanced needs that need to be looked after all the time. Frequent night waking for changing positions or feeding needs someone who’s alert at four in the morning.
We can make individual caregiver placements for live-in care or a small team for 24-hour shifts. When you call our recruiters, they can suggest which schedule would suit your loved one’s needs the best.
24-hour care at home usually takes a bigger team than families expect. Laurine Mallet explains why:
“They need someone full-time, 24 hours. And because that’s not possible, obviously, to have just one person 24 hours, they need to multiply their staff, so maybe three, four, five people.”
Source: Morgan & Mallet job ads and applicants, US caregiver and companion searches, July 2024 to June 2026, with 611 applicants (a San Francisco search still open in June 2026 is left out of the applicant averages); and our caregiver searches in 10 countries, 2022 to June 2026. How we count
If your parent can wash and dress on their own but is lonely, or no longer drives, a companion may be enough. If, however, they need hands-on help with bathing, dressing, moving around or medication, you need a caregiver.
Lots of jobs are in-between the two. 57% of our caregiver searches for clients in the US had “companion” in the job title.
A live-in companion job we recruited for in 2025 shows the difference. The family wanted cover for four months while their own personal assistant was on maternity leave, and their brief set out what the day involved:
A full-time housekeeper was already there running the house, so nothing in that day was cleaning. Where the house itself needs the help, we suggest families hire a housekeeper and let the companion focus on your parent.
Matching a companion is harder than it looks.
“When it comes to a companion role, it’s not easy, because it’s all about the relationship between the companion and the client.
“For that you need to spend a lot of time with the client to understand what is the culture [they’ve] got, what [they’re] looking for. It’s like a friend,” says co-founder Morgan Richez.
Source: Morgan & Mallet job briefs, US caregiver and companion searches, July 2024 to June 2026. How we count
Most caregivers we place have trained in hospitals or care centers before moving into private households.
Some of the jobs we recruit for have a mix of roles.
A search we did for a client in 2025 in Charleston, South Carolina was for a caregiver who could also act as a private personal assistant, for a family with homes in Florida and abroad.
Joining a house that already has staff takes care too.
When Laurine placed a head housekeeper in a home where a caregiver had worked for the employer for 10 years, the caregiver saw the newcomer as a rival until the family’s PA got them talking.
“That’s why it’s really important in [a] private property to talk, maybe much more than in an office,” Laurine says.
Source: Morgan & Mallet job ads, our caregiver searches in 10 countries, 2022 to June 2026, and our 2025 Charleston search. How we count
Morgan & Mallet’s 2025/26 salary report puts a full-time live-in caregiver in the private households we recruit for at $60,000 to $100,000 gross a year.
| Hourly pay | times | Hours | equals | A day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $35 to $50 | × | 8 | = | about $280 to $400 |
Factors like experience, location, medical complexity, travel, and accommodation play a part in deciding where a role fits in that range.
For live-in roles, providing the caregiver a decent room within your family member’s home is necessary.
“If you provide really good accommodation, the candidate will feel very comfortable and will stay long term. Offer a tiny room and they’ll probably last a few months before leaving,” says Laurine Mallet, Morgan & Mallet’s co-founder.
Living in the house means the caregiver only works according to the hours set in their contract, with breaks and days off in place.
Morgan Richez says it’s necessary to explain what the live-in arrangement covers. Think about whether the accommodation covers the internet, water, and electricity. It matters when you present the caregiver with a final salary and boarding package.
The Department of Labor has specific rules for live-in domestic workers on top of whatever your state requires. Morgan & Mallet connects you with lawyers to set up a contract that covers workers’ compensation and employer liability within your state.
Medicare does not generally pay for private live-in caregivers. It only pays for part-time skilled care at home, like nursing or therapy, when a doctor confirms the person needs it and they find it hard to leave home.
Long-term private caregivers who help with washing, dressing, meals, company, etc. fall under private-pay care.
Brothers and sisters can often share the bill.
“They used to ask all the family, if there is a good ambiance, of course, all the brothers and sisters, to participate [in] the payment for the fees or even for the salary of the caregivers,” Morgan Richez remembers.
If you have any questions on what the right number looks like for your parent’s caregiver, our recruiters can talk it through with you.
Source: our 2025/26 Household Staff Salaries Annual Report, and the pay in our US caregiver job ads, 2025 to 2026. How we count
We plan for caregivers to stay a long time. Since 2022, permanent jobs have made up 91% of our caregiver work worldwide.
The caregiver’s placement is often shared between siblings, and our recruiters almost always receive a call from a concerned son or daughter rather than the parent.
We keep you updated on the care of your parent whether you and your siblings are in the same state or out of the country.
That first call now looks at how often the rest of the family will visit.
Laurine learned this on a summer search for a companion to an older man in the south of France, whose children came and went during the two months.
“I didn’t know, but now I’m going to ask those questions,” she says. “I didn’t know the family, the children, would expect to come maybe just [for a] few days. And they did.”
Source: Morgan & Mallet job ads, our caregiver searches in 10 countries, 2022 to June 2026. How we count
Yes, and it’s part of the job more often than families think. Travel, between homes or on holiday, was part of 28% of our caregiver searches worldwide.
A 2025 New York City search we did highlights that.
The caregiver was asked to live in an apartment next door to the client and spend three months abroad with them every summer, with their own place there too, plus trips to see family in other states.
The job was more than just care. It was meals, the client’s diary, prescriptions and doctors, guests and suppliers. So the family was happy to get applications from former butlers or household managers, not only from caregivers and companions.
There are shorter trips that are needed for caregivers too. Our search in 2025 in coastal North Carolina asked for a caregiver happy to travel within the US with the client.
From the first call with us we put travel in the brief, so the pay, the time off and any passport issues are clear before anyone is offered the job.
Source: Morgan & Mallet job ads, our caregiver searches in 10 countries, 2022 to June 2026, and our 2025 New York City and North Carolina searches. How we count
The decision to hire a caregiver can happen suddenly, maybe after a fall or a diagnosis. The decision can be harder on the sibling who lives the closest, who runs the search on top of their own work and life.
It can be urgent when hiring a caregiver. 70% of the searches we ran for caregivers since 2022 asked for someone to start as soon as possible.
Co-founder Morgan Richez sees how important it is for families:
“When it comes to [a] nanny job or caregiver job, [these are] the most important people. You need to take care to find the right people, because they take care of your children or your parents.”
That’s where Morgan & Mallet recruiters can help. We do the search for you and check every reference, certificate, and ID before anyone is in contact with your loved one.
We understand the reluctance a parent has about having a stranger in their house. That’s what helps us create our shortlist, to find someone who can win over your parent and give them good company and care.
We bring you three to five people worth meeting, and you make the choice, because that decision was always yours to make.
Source: Morgan & Mallet job ads, our caregiver searches in 10 countries, 2022 to June 2026. How we count
When we place a caregiver, we know they will become a part of your family’s private life. They see your parent on their worst days and know what goes on behind closed doors.
Our recruiters understand what sort of person gets that job right and how to look for them.
For Laurine Mallet, finding caregivers is one of her favorite searches, and the difficulty is exactly why. Two things have to be true at once.
The qualifications have to be real, and the personality has to be the one the family is hoping for. Getting both in the same person is the interesting part.
The search for a caregiver is one we’ve been familiar with since 2015. Morgan & Mallet’s very first client was an elderly gentleman in Paris who needed a caregiver.
Today our New York, Miami, and Los Angeles offices recruit caregivers for homes across the U.S.
Every caregiver you meet has already been through a 90-minute interview with one of our recruiters, and roughly three in four applicants do not get that far.
| In our candidate records | Number |
|---|---|
| People who have worked as caregivers or companions | more than 2,000 |
| Median age | 49 |
| Languages between them | 28 |
Discretion agreements are standard, because your parent’s health is nobody else’s business. Most families want it put in the job brief as well. Discretion or confidentiality were in 71% of the US caregiver briefs we have made.
Morgan Richez co-founded this agency after years of working in private households so he understands how important a personality fit is. What you are looking for, past the qualifications, is someone whose company your parent will enjoy.
If the fit seems wrong, our three-month replacement guarantee means you are not starting again on your own.
To learn more about the Morgan & Mallet story, you can visit our about us page.
Source: our candidate database, people who list caregiver or companion work, June 2026; and Morgan & Mallet job briefs, US caregiver and companion searches, July 2024 to June 2026. How we count
This is an example of a job description we would write for a family hiring a full-time, live-in private caregiver for an elderly parent, based in the client’s own home.
Real briefs often ask for more experience than this example. Our 2025 search in coastal North Carolina asked for at least five years of caregiving in private homes.
A family is looking for an experienced, live-in caregiver for an elderly parent in their own home.
The client needs help with personal care, medication, and mobility, along with company through the day.
The caregiver will be the client’s main daily support. They’ll help the client stay comfortable and safe at home, and watch for changes in health or mood.
They’ll work closely with the family and the client’s medical team.
Medical care such as injections or wound treatment stays with a visiting nurse or doctor.
The role is full-time and live-in, with a private bedroom and en suite. Time off can be arranged in two- or three-day blocks, or on a week on/week off pattern.
Personal care
Health and medication
Meals and household
Company and daily life
Essential experience
Preferred qualifications
Personal qualities
This job description was reviewed by Laurine Mallet, co-founder of Morgan & Mallet.
Call us on +1 (646) 965-2308 or tell us about your parent and a caregiver recruiter will get back to you.
$60,000 to $100,000 gross per year for a full-time live-in caregiver in the private households we recruit for, based on Morgan & Mallet’s 2025/26 salary report. Room and board are provided on top of the salary.
Experience, the state you are in, and the medical complexity of the role move the figure within that range.
No. A private bedroom and food are part of the arrangement, which is why a live-in salary reads differently from an hourly rate.
Most live-in caregivers work 8 to 10 hours a day, five days a week, with two consecutive days off. Living in the house is not the same as being on duty.
The hours, the breaks, and the night arrangements all go in the contract before an offer goes out. Department of Labor rules for live-in domestic workers apply, and your state’s rules sit on top.
Make sure to agree on the nights too. 24% of our caregiver searches across the globe mentioned night duties, from sleeping in to getting up when the client needs help.
Three to six weeks for most searches. A brief that has several requirements, dementia experience plus driving plus live-in, takes longer. We will let you know the expected time frame at the consultation rather than three weeks in.
No. Medicare does not cover private live-in care, so this is private-pay. Families typically fund it from savings, a long-term care policy, income from a property, or contributions split between siblings.
Medicaid rules differ by state and cover some home-based services for people who qualify.
Live-in caregiver, private caregiver, and private duty caregiver all describe the same role. “Private duty” is the term you will see most in U.S. healthcare settings, and it simply means care paid for privately rather than by an insurer.
Job listings and search results also use “caregiver for the elderly” for the same work.
Yes, and we verify it. We ask what stage of dementia the candidate worked with, for how long, and how they handled the difficult parts, then confirm it with the family who employed them.
A home health aide holds a state certification and usually works through a home health agency. The certification lets them take on hands-on health tasks, like checking vital signs or helping with prescribed exercises.
A caregiver supports daily living, personal care, and companionship, and plenty of caregivers hold aide certification anyway. For clinical treatment at home you need a nurse.
Some families want both in one person. A qualified nurse who could also do the caregiving was what 6% of our caregiver searches worldwide asked for. If that’s what your parent needs, see how to hire a private nurse.
Source: our 2025/26 Household Staff Salaries Annual Report, and Morgan & Mallet job ads, our caregiver searches in 10 countries, 2022 to June 2026. How we count
Call us on +1 (646) 965-2308 or tell us about your parent and a caregiver recruiter will get back to you.
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