Permanent placement fee
For a permanent placement where the family employs the nanny, nanny-housekeeper or housekeeper directly, the current agency fee is 15% of the agreed gross annual salary, subject to a minimum fee of £2,000.
The detailed payment timing, cancellation, replacement and refund provisions are governed by the current Terms and Conditions. If there is any difference between this summary and the current terms, the terms should be checked before proceeding.
What is not included in the agency fee?
The placement fee is not the employee’s salary and it is not the total annual cost of employing someone in your home. A family making a permanent direct hire should budget separately for the employee’s gross pay and the employer obligations that apply to the role.
Those may include employer National Insurance, workplace pension contributions where applicable, paid holiday, Employers’ Liability insurance and other agreed employment costs.
Why we quote fees against gross annual salary
Gross annual salary provides a clearer employment base than a net-pay figure because tax and employee deductions can vary. It also keeps the agency’s placement fee separate from the nanny’s take-home pay and from the household’s additional employer costs.
For payroll and employer-cost planning, see our nanny payroll, PAYE and National Insurance guide.
Temporary and fixed-term bookings
Temporary or fixed-term arrangements can vary materially in dates, hours, location, duties and candidate availability. Our current Terms and Conditions therefore direct families to contact the agency for the pricing that applies to the specific booking.
We have removed older site copy that presented a single temporary hourly rate without a verified current fee schedule. A temporary booking is confirmed only once the candidate, scope and applicable terms are agreed.
Does the agency fee include the nanny’s wages?
No. For a permanent direct placement, the family employs and pays the nanny separately. The agency fee is the recruitment and placement fee charged by Filipino Nanny Agency.
For a temporary arrangement, the payment structure depends on the particular booking terms, so check the quote and current Terms and Conditions before confirming.
What happens if a permanent placement ends early?
The current Terms and Conditions contain a replacement process and, in specified circumstances, a partial-refund schedule. Those provisions have conditions and time limits, so it would be misleading to reduce them to a blanket “guarantee” on this page.
Read the current client terms before accepting a candidate if replacement or refund conditions are important to your decision.
Agency fee, salary and total employer cost compared
| Cost | What it means |
|---|---|
| Agency placement fee | The recruitment/placement fee paid to Filipino Nanny Agency. Permanent placements: 15% of agreed gross annual salary, minimum £2,000, under the current client terms. |
| Gross salary | The employee’s pay before Income Tax, employee National Insurance and other deductions. |
| Employer costs | Employer-side liabilities such as employer National Insurance, pension contributions where applicable, paid holiday, insurance and agreed benefits or expenses. |
How we handle pricing transparency
Older pages on this website repeated different salary and temporary-rate figures in several places. During this re-optimisation we are removing those duplicated numbers and assigning one canonical owner to each cost topic.
This page owns the agency fee. Payroll owns tax and National Insurance. The forthcoming salary guide will own current market salary guidance once the agency’s live placement data has been verified. We are using that separation because a family should be able to tell which number is an agency charge, which is employee pay and which is an employer liability.
Before requesting a quote
Have the following ready:
- role required: nanny, nanny-housekeeper or housekeeper;
- full-time or part-time;
- live-in or live-out;
- normal working days and hours;
- children’s ages and childcare duties;
- household duties, if any;
- location and desired start date;
- whether the position is permanent, temporary or fixed-term.
Those details help distinguish the role being recruited and the pricing model that applies.
Related guides
See how to hire a Filipino nanny, the UK household-employer legal guide, and our payroll and PAYE guide.