Nanny Service Switzerland — from CHF 42/h + 8.1% MwSt.
Nanny Service Switzerland — from CHF 42/h + 8.1% MwSt.
Those are our published rates, per child, in every canton — CHF 45.40 an hour including VAT on the Qualified tier. No placement fee, no registration fee and no employer paperwork, because Rundil employs the nanny. Price your own week below, then book at exactly that rate.
Four tiers, one national rate, charged per child with a minimum two-hour session. Both the net rate and the VAT-inclusive rate are shown, because the second one is what you actually pay.
A Rundil nanny in Switzerland costs CHF 42, 47 or 54 an hour excl. 8.1% VAT — that is CHF 45.40, CHF 50.81 or CHF 58.37 an hour including VAT — plus a Flex rate of CHF 55 for care booked less than 48 hours ahead. The rate is charged per child, the minimum session is two hours, and it is the same in every canton. Twelve hours a week with an Experienced nanny works out at about CHF 610 a week, roughly CHF 2,640 a month, VAT included.
Nothing is added to that number afterwards. No placement fee, no registration fee, no minimum contract and no employer paperwork: Rundil is the nanny's legal employer, so AHV, BVG, UVG, family allowances, sick pay and the payroll are ours. You are billed for the hours delivered, cancellations are free up to 48 hours before a session, and a vetted nanny is assigned within 48 to 72 hours.
| Tier | Best for | Rate excl. VAT | Incl. 8.1% VAT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qualified | Vetted, background-checked, solid childcare experience | CHF 42/h | CHF 45.40/h |
| ExperiencedMost popular | Several years' experience, strong verified references | CHF 47/h | CHF 50.81/h |
| Expert | Degree in education or childcare, primary-curriculum aware | CHF 54/h | CHF 58.37/h |
| Flex | Short-notice, out-of-hours, weekend and holiday care | CHF 55/h | CHF 59.46/h |
| What a week costs, incl. VAT | 2-hour session | 8 hrs/week | 12 hrs/week | 20 hrs/week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualified · CHF 42/h | CHF 90.80 | CHF 363 | CHF 545 | CHF 908 |
| Experienced · CHF 47/h | CHF 101.61 | CHF 406 | CHF 610 | CHF 1,016 |
| Expert · CHF 54/h | CHF 116.75 | CHF 467 | CHF 700 | CHF 1,167 |
| Flex · CHF 55/h | CHF 118.91 | CHF 476 | CHF 713 | CHF 1,189 |
A settled weekly rhythm, billed predictably. The cheaper of the two if your hours are stable.
Weeks that vary. You pay only for the hours you use, with an admin fee on top of the tier rate.
Pick a tier and the hours you actually need. The figure includes 8.1% VAT and is per child — no enquiry form standing between you and a number.
The monthly figure uses 4.33 weeks, the same convention Swiss payroll uses to turn an hourly contract into a salary. Rates are charged per child with a two-hour minimum session, and 8.1% VAT is already inside the numbers on the right. Flex is the on-demand rate for anything booked under 48 hours ahead.
Vetted, checked and English-speaking — the everyday tier.
Several years in the job with references we have called.
Degree in education or childcare, primary-curriculum aware.
On-demand: under 48 hours' notice, evenings, weekends, holidays.
Three groups of things you would otherwise buy, arrange or carry separately. This is what makes a managed rate different from a wage.
The two lists a price page ought to publish and almost none do.
Everything a household would otherwise buy, arrange or carry itself. One line on one invoice, and nothing recalculated when your nanny has a birthday and her pension credit steps up.
Three steps, and the price does not change at any of them.
Use the estimator above to see the weekly and monthly figure including VAT. Nothing on this page is hidden behind an enquiry form.
Send the ages, the hours and your address. No placement fee, no registration fee, no contract to negotiate and nothing to sign for a minimum term.
Your nanny is assigned within 48–72 hours and confirmed by WhatsApp. The invoice shows hours and VAT. There is no payroll, no AHV and no filing.
Four genuinely different arrangements, priced per hour of care so they can be compared at all. One of them is cheaper than us, and it is not the one you might expect.
You are going to run these numbers yourself, so we would rather you found them here than felt misled later. Each of these is a real disadvantage of buying childcare as a service.
A nanny is paid per household. We charge per child. One directly employed nanny at CHF 44.87 an hour of care covers two children for about CHF 22 per child-hour; two children with us on the Qualified tier is CHF 90.80 an hour incl. VAT. There is no arithmetic that makes us cheaper there, and we will not invent one. What sits on the other side of the ledger is roughly CHF 85,000 a year of employer liability, a placement fee, the sick-pay scale, holiday weeks you must cover yourself, and the payroll. If you want many hours a week for two or three children and you are willing to be an employer, employ directly — and use the calculation on this page to do it with your eyes open.
Zurich private Kita places run CHF 131–149 a day, the Zurich city tariff caps at CHF 120 and municipal rates are income-scaled well below that; Zug runs about CHF 110–140 and, from 1 August 2026, pays a flat 33% cantonal subsidy independent of income or assets. Per hour of care, that is CHF 12.50–14.20 in a private Zurich Kita, against roughly CHF 45 for one-to-one care at home. A Tagesfamilie or childminder is cheaper still — CHF 6.00–13.50 an hour per child. Switzerland is genuinely expensive by international standards — the OECD puts net childcare cost at about 35% of average earnings against an OECD average under 14% — but that comparison is about group care, and group care is not what a nanny is.
Our rates carry 8.1% Swiss VAT, and a private household cannot reclaim it. Wages paid to a directly employed nanny carry no VAT at all — although agency placement fees do, on top of the fee. In practice VAT is what turns CHF 42 into CHF 45.40 and is the single largest reason our Qualified tier does not undercut a direct hire outright: strip it out and CHF 42 against CHF 44.87 would be a clear win. We publish the inclusive figure everywhere on this page rather than the flattering one, because the inclusive figure is what leaves your account.
If you need only a handful of hours a week — a few afternoons, a regular date night — the household stays inside the simplified declaration procedure: a flat 5% withholding tax, AHV and ALV at 6.4% each side, one annual filing, free through the cantonal Ausgleichskasse, and no pension fund because the salary never reaches the CHF 22,680 BVG threshold. The all-in multiplier there is nearer ×1.3 than ×1.5, and the paperwork is genuinely light. Our answer at that volume is convenience, vetting and cover rather than price — and if you would rather do it yourself, the ceilings are CHF 22,680 per employee and CHF 60,480 per household a year.
CHF 42, 47 or 54 an hour, per child, wherever you live. There is no Zürich surcharge and no Zug surcharge, and the two-hour minimum session and the 48-hour free cancellation are the same everywhere we work.
Four households, four very different weeks — all booked on the same four published rates.
You want one nanny for your own child, at hours a Kita does not open. The rate is per child and per hour, so you can price the exact week you need before you speak to anyone.
You keep the one-to-one care and hand over the AHV filing, the payslips, the pension deduction, the sick pay and the holiday cover. One invoice a month replaces all of it.
You are costing childcare before the relocation is signed. Pick a tier, pick the hours, and you have a defensible annual childcare figure — the same one in whichever canton you land in.
Eight or twelve hours a week does not justify becoming an employer. Book the hours, pay for the hours delivered, stop whenever you like — there is no minimum term.
We have had a wonderful experience with Rundil Childcare. Our child felt comfortable from the beginning, and the communication with us has always been clear and reassuring. It has made managing our weekly schedule so much easier.
Rundil helped us find reliable support for our two children after school. The childcare has been warm, attentive and dependable, and the children genuinely look forward to the time they spend together. We are very pleased with the service.
We needed occasional childcare that could fit around our changing work commitments. The process was straightforward, and the support we received was professional and caring. It is reassuring to know we have someone dependable when we need help.
Our daughter settled in very quickly and always seems happy and relaxed after each visit. We particularly appreciate the regular communication and thoughtful attention given to her routine. Rundil has been a great support for our family.
We contacted Rundil for evening childcare and were very happy with the experience. Everything was handled calmly and professionally, and our children felt safe and comfortable. We would happily use the service again.
The childcare support has been reliable, friendly and very well suited to our family. Our son enjoys the activities and attention, while we appreciate the punctuality and good communication. It has given us real peace of mind.
Childcare costs are deductible up to a per-child maximum at both federal and cantonal level. The maxima are firm; the treatment of a nanny's wage is not, and the treatment of an invoiced childcare service is a question rather than a settled answer.
| Level | Maximum deduction per child | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Federal tax | CHF 25,800 | Applicable from 1 January 2026, indexed from a statutory base of CHF 25,000 |
| St. Gallen | CHF 26,800 | The highest cantonal ceiling |
| Genève | CHF 26,392 | — |
| Zug | CHF 25,400 | — |
| Zürich | CHF 25,300 | — |
| Aargau | CHF 25,000 | A nanny's wage must be apportioned; the housework share is removed first |
| Luzern | CHF 20,200 | — |
| Bern | CHF 16,000 | A nanny or au pair counts at 50% of net wages per the Lohnausweis |
| Vaud | CHF 15,200 | — |
| Schwyz | CHF 8,000 | A household helper counts at a quarter of net wages, an au pair at a half |
The child must be under 14 and living in your household. The cost must have a direct causal link to employment, training or incapacity to work — childcare so that you can have an evening out is not deductible. The care must be provided by a third party, so a parent looking after their own child is out. The cost must be documented, by an invoice, a Lohnausweis or wage records naming the child. And any subsidy must be netted off before the deduction is claimed. Placement fees are almost certainly not deductible, because they are recruitment costs rather than care costs — we found no source addressing them either way. Looking further ahead, the federal UKibeG is expected to take effect in 2027 with a monthly contribution capped at CHF 500 per child.
We think there is a good argument that it is, and we are not going to state it as fact, because no ruling we could find addresses an agency-invoiced managed childcare service directly. The reasoning runs like this: a Rundil invoice is structurally identical to a Kita, Hort or Tagesfamilien invoice — a third-party childcare cost, naming the child and the hours — and those are unambiguously deductible in full. A directly employed nanny's wage, by contrast, is explicitly reduced in several cantons: 50% in Bern, 25% in Schwyz, and apportioned in Aargau. That asymmetry could matter to a household in one of those cantons. It is a question worth putting to a Swiss tax adviser with your own figures before you rely on it, and we would rather you asked than took our word.
CHF 42, 47 or 54 an hour excl. 8.1% VAT, per child, minimum two hours. No placement fee, no registration fee, no employer paperwork and no minimum term — a vetted, English-speaking nanny assigned in 48 to 72 hours.
