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Morgan & Mallet, as a luxury household staffing agency, places experienced rota nannies for families across the United States and internationally.
If you are looking to hire a rota nanny who is experienced, proven and excels in private home environments, contact us today.
Nannies rotate on alternate schedules, one works while the other rests, giving your children consistent, high level care.
Rota jobs have a strong number of candidates applying. Since 2022, across all our offices, our rota nanny ads have had 91% more applicants per ad than our nanny ads overall.
- 120+ US cities and towns. Over a decade of global household staffing experience across eight international offices.
- 96% Our placement success rate for nannies and butlers.
- 91% more applicants per rota nanny ad than our nanny ads overall
- 85% of our rota nanny briefs included a child under three
Source: Morgan & Mallet rota nanny and nanny job ads and rota briefs, all our offices, 2022 to 2026 (2,374 rota ad applications); 2025/26 Household Staff Salaries Annual Report; Household Staff Industry Report 2026. How we count
Rota nanny agency insights - Useful tips from our Consultants
Traditional full-time nannies working 50-hour weeks without long breaks can find it hard to be at their best every day.
Rota schedules solve this. Two nannies rotating every two weeks can stay longer, may perform better, and because they are well rested can give your children more thoughtful care.
It’s most important with very young children, and most rota families we recruit for have them. Across all our offices, 85% of our briefs for rota nannies from 2022 onwards included a child under three.
So before we suggest that you need to hire one nanny or maybe two, we’ll go through your week with you.
Cost: $120,000 to $240,000 Annually
(combined salary for both nannies)
Good candidates will ask about the hours first. Laurine Mallet, our co-founder, who worked as a nanny herself, explains what they need to know:
“[Live-in] position, first of all, it’s about the working hours.
“… So what do you expect from me working from, let’s say, Monday to Friday?
“Okay. So I’ve got weekend as days off, but do you expect to call me on duty, which is completely fine, but just to make sure, in order for me to understand deeply your expectations…”
Laurine Mallet
91% of our New York City nanny clients come back to us for more staff or refer the agency to other families within 18 months.
Source: Morgan & Mallet rota nanny job briefs, all our offices, May 2022 to June 2026; 2025/26 Household Staff Salaries Annual Report (nanny pay). How we count
What is a Rota Nanny?
A rota nanny works on a rotation with one to two weeks on, and one to two weeks off, sharing the role with a second nanny.
During their two weeks on, they are always available, often living in and covering long days including travel and evenings.
These are long days to work. In our rota briefs, where they had working hours, a day on duty was 12 to 14 hours, normally something like 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
One family we worked with in the US called it “a 24/7 role” in our 2025 brief with them.
During their two weeks off, they rest completely.
That only works though if the weeks off are really off. A family in Belgium we recruited for asked its nanny to stay available for remote requests during the week off.
Morgan Richez, our co-founder, saw the problem with that when he was a butler, in a job that was three weeks on and two weeks off. Laurine Mallet, our other co-founder, remembers how his weeks off went:
“They can call you to say, okay, tomorrow you are going to work three weeks. … He did it for two months and after two months he was really fed up.”
So we’ll ask how you want the weeks off to work, and we’ll write it into the job description.
Our recruiters carry out 90-minute interviews testing whether candidates will be able to work well in a rotation nanny role with the travel schedules, and the sheer hard work of working two weeks straight.
If a rota nanny isn’t the role you are looking for you can read more about the other types of role on our nanny hiring page.
Reference checking former rota nanny roles
We call former employers and ask open-ended questions. Instead of “Did she care for your children well?”, we ask: “Can you describe her daily routine with the children?”
This shows skills candidates haven’t thought about putting in their resume or telling us about before.
Some families want proof that the candidate has done rota work before. A brief we worked on in 2025 asked for at least a year as a rota nanny, on top of five years in childcare.
Those rota employers from past jobs are the references we ask for.
Testing rotation compatibility
We ask candidates: “Your rotation partner handles bedtime differently than you. The children are confused. What do you do?” The wrong answer: “I’d correct the other nanny’s approach.” The right answer would be:
“I’d talk about it privately with my partner and work on building a consistent routine for the children.”
This is most important when you already have a nanny, or a team of nannies, because 35% of the families in our searches for rota nannies across all our offices did.
A family near Zurich in 2025 needed a second nanny to rotate with the one who had been with them for six years. If that’s you, we’ll ask about your current nanny’s routines before we shortlist anyone.
Your nannies will often share the house with other staff, too. In Los Angeles, 86% of the nannies we’ve placed work on estates with other household staff.
Assessing discretion with children
Our co-founder Laurine Mallet points out where nannies make their contacts: “A nanny, for example, she’s going to develop her network with other nannies she can meet at the playground or during [a playdate].”
So we test discretion with scenarios: “You’re at the playground on your day off. Another nanny asks about the family’s travel schedule. What do you say?” The right answer to this would be something like “I keep family schedules private.”
Privacy is crucial to all our rota nanny placements.
Verifying childcare experience
We ask candidates to talk us through a typical day.
How do they handle tantrums in public? What activities do they plan for a rainy afternoon? How do they coordinate with parents about discipline?
Vague answers aren’t the best. It’s clear to see when someone really knows what they’re talking about.
Detailed, thoughtful answers show real experience.
Some families ask for a lot of experience. A family moving from Los Angeles to South Miami in 2026 asked for at least 10 years of professional childcare and CPR certification.
Source: Morgan & Mallet rota nanny job briefs, all our offices, May 2022 to June 2026; 2025/26 Household Staff Salaries Annual Report (Los Angeles placements). How we count
What should you decide before you hire a rota nanny?
Three things: the rota pattern, the changeover and where the nanny sleeps on duty. This is what families chose in our rota searches in all our offices from 2022 onwards.
The pattern. 50% of the rota briefs we worked on for families that set a pattern swapped nannies every two weeks. 31% swapped every week.
Longer blocks of time on were more rare, like three to four weeks on and off for two boys who were 9 and 11 in Dubai in 2025.
The shortest period of work for a nanny we recruited was four days on and four off, in Lucerne in 2022.
A family in the US in 2026 was open to three weeks on and one off, two on and two off, or 25 days on and five off. They were flexible.
The changeover. Some families made it very clear in the brief. In Lasne, Belgium, in 2024, each week on ran from Friday at 3:30 p.m. to the next Friday at 3:30 p.m.
A family in Tournai, Belgium, in 2023 wrote “From Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning in rotation.” It’s a good idea to agree on the day and the hour with both nannies, so everyone knows where they stand.
Where the nanny sleeps. In 60% of our rota nanny searches for clients across all our offices, the nanny needed to live in during the weeks on.
Families usually gave a private bedroom and bathroom, or a separate apartment on the property.
A newborn job we recruited for, in Riyadh in 2025, asked the nanny to share the baby’s room. A family moving to South Miami in 2026 wanted live-out nannies on a rota that covered all days of the week.
Living in can make an already long day even longer.
“When you work [live-in], you are not going to work from 8 to 6.
“Maybe the boss can call you like at 7: ‘Oh, sorry. I didn’t want to disturb you, but I need you. Can you come just five minutes?’” says Laurine Mallet, our co-founder.
If you’d like your nannies to live in, our live-in nanny page explains how that works.
| In the brief | Share of searches |
|---|---|
| A child under three | 85% |
| The nanny lived in during the weeks on | 60% |
| The handover written into the job | 35% |
| A nanny or a team of nannies already in place | 35% |
| Of the briefs that set a pattern: two weeks on, two off | 50% |
| Of the briefs that set a pattern: one week on, one off | 31% |
Start early, too. We now advise families to begin a search 4 to 6 months before the start date, not 2 to 3, and a rota means finding two nannies.
Source: Morgan & Mallet rota nanny job briefs, all our offices, May 2022 to June 2026; 2025/26 Household Staff Salaries Annual Report (search timing). How we count
How do two rota nannies keep your children's routine the same?
With a very good structured handover every time they change shifts, one clear set of family rules, and two nannies who help each other and work together.
Families know this is all important: across all our offices, 35% of our rota briefs wrote the handover part into the job.
A family in the US in 2025 asked for a nanny who would work with the co-nanny “to ensure seamless transitions and continuity of care.” A family in Dubai in 2025 wanted “smooth and seamless handovers between shifts.”
Some families want it in writing. A family in Paris hiring four nannies in 2024, two on duty at a time, asked them to keep detailed records of the children’s activities and milestones.
Two nannies who share a family also cover for each other. Asked how household staff build trust, Laurine Mallet, our co-founder, gave an example:
“Let’s say … I need to leave tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. while I should leave at 6:00. … I’m going to tell you, don’t you mind? Normally, you should finish at 5 tomorrow. Can you finish at 6:00?
“Like that I can leave at 5. It’s an exception but at least I will give a solution to our boss.”
That’s the attitude we look for in both of your nannies. In every interview, we ask how the candidate would hand over to the other nanny.
Source: Morgan & Mallet rota nanny job briefs, all our offices, May 2022 to June 2026. How we count
How we find candidates other Rota Nanny agencies can’t
Founders who worked as household staff
Morgan Richez was a butler and chauffeur for UHNW families in London. Laurine Mallet worked as a nanny. They built Morgan & Mallet in 2015 from the staff side, understanding what makes a placement succeed.
50,300+ vetted candidates
About 1 in 4 applicants pass our checks. Our database spans eight offices: New York, Los Angeles, Miami, London, Paris, Switzerland, Antibes (near Monaco) and Dubai.
Custom ATS built for household roles
Standard platforms can’t filter nannies in the database for everything we can like live-in availability, pet allergies, or rotation schedules.
We built our own system to capture what matters for household staffing.
When you tell us you want to hire a rota nanny comfortable traveling to Aspen in winter and the Hamptons in summer, we filter for candidates who’ve already done that or similar.
Quality control by a former tech recruiter
Eric Rios, who spent years placing software engineers at companies like Google, audits every candidate profile monthly, checking that folders contain all information, references contacted, background checks done (criminal checks follow the rules of your state and city), certifications uploaded.
Multilingual Recruiting Team
Fluent in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Tagalog for sourcing candidates across global markets.
Formal Childcare Qualifications Verified
CPR and pediatric first aid, early childhood degrees and documented HNW/UHNW family experience confirmed during vetting.
Rota Nannies Recruitment for Families with Multiple Properties
Our co-founder Morgan Richez tells rota nanny candidates during interviews that in this job: “Your private life is not easy … because you can’t plan anything for the next weekend, for example, because maybe you’re going to [be] traveling.”
This honesty upfront stops problems later. Candidates who accept rota positions understand the intensity and the built-in recovery time.
Candidates accept demanding schedules because their two-week break is guaranteed.
Travel can make the rota longer. A family who worked with us near Zurich in 2025 wanted one week on and one week off, which then went to 10 days on and 10 off during trips.
A family in Monaco in 2026 asked us for nannies who could travel at least once a month, for about five days. Another, between Neuilly-sur-Seine and Saint-Tropez in 2025, gave accommodation to its nannies only when they traveled.
If one nanny is going to spend long stretches away with you, a travel nanny might suit you better than a rota. We’ll help you decide when you brief us.
Cost is part of the choice. In the private households we recruit for, a traveling nanny earns $70,000 to $150,000 a year, while two rota nannies earn $120,000 to $240,000 between them.
Source: Morgan & Mallet rota nanny job briefs, 2025 and 2026; 2025/26 Household Staff Salaries Annual Report (traveling nanny and nanny pay). How we count
Rota Nanny Salaries
Two nannies, rotating
$120,000 to $240,000 annually (combined salary for both)
This breaks down to $60,000 to $120,000 per nanny in the private households we recruit for.
| Who | Pay |
|---|---|
| Two rota nannies, together | $120,000 to $240,000 a year |
| Each rota nanny | $60,000 to $120,000 a year |
| One traveling nanny | $70,000 to $150,000 a year |
Rota nannies cost more per year. But there’s probably more chance of your children getting consistent care over time.
And 91% of our New York City nanny clients come back to us for more staff or refer the agency to other families within 18 months. First placements are rarely the last.
We want your nannies to stay for the long term too. Our co-founder Morgan Richez explains:
“We [are] thinking about the longevity. The most important for us … is to place the people for a long time.
“… I would like those people to stay at least three, five years with your family, because it’s very important … to have these people around who work for you for many years.”
That kind of stay is rarer than you might think: in our candidate database, only 21% of the nanny jobs that had ended lasted three years or more.
It can be good to budget for more than two salaries.
Our rota briefs also offered a car on working days (Lucerne, 2022), meals on duty and all travel costs (near Zurich, 2025), and a health insurance contribution with paid time off (South Miami, 2026).
List the extras you can offer when you brief us, so candidates see the whole package.
For more information read our costs of hiring a nanny page.
Source: 2025/26 Household Staff Salaries Annual Report (nanny pay); Morgan & Mallet rota nanny job ads, 2022 to 2026 (benefits as advertised); candidate database, June 2026 (finished nanny jobs). How we count
Other types of nanny
Rota nannies can do other roles as well. At Morgan & Mallet we also place the roles below:
Live-in nanny→ A rota nanny can also live in a family’s home. Yes they will still work shifts, but can still live with the family during those shifts.
Bilingual nanny→ A rota nanny can also be bilingual and work as a bilingual nanny. You can read more about the role on our dedicated page.
Norland trained nanny→ Some families who hire a rota nanny also request that they are Norland trained. This is a role we recruit for too.
Travel nanny→ You might travel a lot and it could make sense for your nanny to go with you. This is where a travel nanny could be the right role for you.
Special needs nanny→ This type of nanny works with children who have special needs. They are experienced in this type of care and may have qualifications.
Rota jobs also change as children grow. The rota nanny jobs we fill typically last 6 to 12 months, and many then turn into a permanent governess or hybrid job.
Source: 2025/26 Household Staff Salaries Annual Report (rota placements). How we count
What Happens After Placement
We check in at 10 days, then every two weeks for the first three months, to see how everything is going.
We offer a three-month guarantee. If a placement fails during that period, we provide a replacement at no additional fee.
Ready to Hire a Rota Nanny?
Contact Morgan & Mallet to start your search. Our recruiters will present candidates from our 50,300+ vetted candidates, including nannies who have worked rotas.
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