Nanny Service Switzerland — from CHF 42/h + 8.1% MwSt.
Nanny Service Switzerland — from CHF 42/h + 8.1% MwSt.
A subsidised Kita place is cheaper per hour than a nanny. We supply nannies and we are still going to open with that sentence, because every other page on this topic buries it. What those pages also bury is the rest of the arithmetic: the two-day minimum booking, the monthly fee that does not stop during closure weeks, the 11.5-hour day you are billed for whether you use it or not, and the morning your child wakes up with a temperature and the Kita is legally the one place they cannot go. Below is the full comparison for 2026, in francs, with the sources.
Written to be quoted, so it says the uncomfortable part first.
If you qualify for a subsidised Kita place, the Kita is cheaper per hour than a nanny, and it is not close. A Stadt Zürich family on a low contribution factor can pay as little as CHF 12 per care day for an 11.5-hour day. No private nanny in Switzerland, ours included, competes with that. If cost per hour is your only criterion, stop reading and take the place.
If you pay a private Kita tariff, the gap narrows sharply but does not close. A full-price Zurich Kita week costs around CHF 3,950 a month for one child. Once you count the closure weeks you still pay for, that is roughly CHF 23 per hour you actually use. A Rundil Qualified nanny is CHF 45.40 an hour including VAT. The Kita is still the cheaper hour.
The nanny wins on the things a price per hour cannot express. Care in your own home rather than a group room. Hours that start before 06:45 and end after 18:15. One adult for your children instead of one adult for several families. A single day a week if a single day is what you need, which most Kitas will not sell you. And cover on the day a child is too unwell to be admitted to a Kita at all.
At two children the price argument turns against us. Rundil charges per child, so a second child doubles the hourly rate, while a Kita bills two places and a directly employed nanny costs the same whether she is looking after one child or three. We would rather write that here than have you discover it in a quote.
A page that only lists the other side's weaknesses is marketing. Here is the part where we lose.
Stadt Zürich publishes worked examples of what a subsidised Kita day costs a family, and they are the single strongest argument against hiring a nanny in this country. The city sets a Beitragsfaktor for each household from its income and its assets, then pays the subsidised Kita directly. At a contribution factor of 0% the city carries CHF 108 of the day rate. At 50% it carries CHF 54. At 75% it carries CHF 27. What lands on the parent's invoice ranges from about CHF 12 to CHF 120 per care day, and the city funds up to 240 subsidised days a year.
Put that against a care day of eleven and a half hours and the arithmetic is brutal. CHF 12 a day is roughly one franc an hour. Even at CHF 54 a day the family is paying about CHF 4.70 an hour for supervised, licensed, staffed care with meals included. Our cheapest nanny rate is CHF 45.40 an hour including VAT. There is no framing, no cost-per-usable-hour adjustment and no lifestyle argument that makes those two numbers meet.
| Zurich contribution factor | City pays per care day | Parent pays per care day | Roughly per hour of an 11.5h day |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% — lowest assessed contribution | CHF 108 | CHF 12 | CHF 1.04 |
| 50% | CHF 54 | CHF 54 | CHF 4.70 |
| 75% | CHF 27 | CHF 93 | CHF 8.09 |
| No subsidy — full tariff | CHF 0 | CHF 120 | CHF 10.43 |
| Rundil nanny, Qualified | — | — | CHF 45.40 |
So the first honest conclusion of this page is that a subsidised Kita place is the cheapest formal childcare available in Switzerland, by a wide margin, and if your household qualifies for a low contribution factor you should take it. We are not going to argue you out of a franc an hour. What we will do for the rest of this page is show you the hours that money does not buy, the bookings the system will not sell you, and the days on which a Kita place is worth precisely nothing to a working parent.
Every Kita comparison you have read divides the monthly fee by the number of days. That is the wrong denominator.
Kinderkrippe Albisrieden in Zurich publishes its 2026 tariff in full, which makes it a fair private benchmark: CHF 1,850 a month for two days, CHF 2,550 for three, CHF 3,250 for four and CHF 3,950 for five. Opening hours are 06:45 to 18:15, which is 11.5 hours a day. On paper a five-day place is therefore around CHF 182 a care day, or CHF 15.83 per hour of availability, and that is the number the Kita sector is usually compared on.
It is a number almost no family experiences. Two adjustments have to be made to it before it means anything. First, the monthly fee is the same in every month of the year, including the months in which the Kita is closed. Albisrieden states it plainly: "Der monatliche Beitrag ist jeden Monat gleichbleibend." Second, nobody uses 11.5 hours. Families who drop off at 08:00 and collect at 17:00 are buying availability they do not consume, which is entirely their right, but it changes the cost of the care they do consume.
The same place looks like CHF 15.83 an hour if you divide by the full 11.5-hour opening window and ignore closure weeks. Both numbers are true. Only one of them is the price of the care your child receives. A Rundil Qualified nanny at CHF 45.40 an hour including VAT is still roughly twice that, but the multiple is two, not three, and it applies to hours you choose rather than hours a building is open.
Run the same correction on the nanny side and nothing changes, which is the point. A nanny is billed for booked hours. If you book 8.5 hours, you pay for 8.5 hours. There is no availability premium, no fee during the weeks she is not working, and no month in which you pay for a closed building. The headline rate and the effective rate are the same number, and that is unusual enough in Swiss childcare to be worth stating.
| What you are comparing | Headline figure | Adjusted for closures and real usage | Billed when unused? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private Kita, 5 days, Zurich | CHF 15.83/h | CHF 23.24/h | Yes — every month |
| Private Kita, 2 days, Zurich | CHF 18.58/h | CHF 25.14/h | Yes — every month |
| Rundil nanny, Qualified | CHF 45.40/h | CHF 45.40/h | No — booked hours only |
| Rundil nanny, Experienced | CHF 50.81/h | CHF 50.81/h | No — booked hours only |
Neither is a criticism of Kitas. Both are structural, both are published, and both change the answer for a specific kind of family.
A Kita is an institution with fixed staffing ratios and a fixed roll. To run at all it has to sell care in blocks and it has to bill continuously. Two consequences follow, and they are the two most common reasons a family that wanted a Kita place ends up with a nanny instead.
Albisrieden states the rule directly: "Die Betreuung … kann zwei bis fünf Tage umfassen." Care covers two to five days. One is not on the menu. Stadt Zürich applies the same floor at its own city Kitas, where registration runs from two days upward.
If your working pattern needs Tuesday covered and nothing else, the smallest thing the system will sell you is two days at CHF 1,850 a month. You pay for Tuesday and for a second day you did not want, and your child attends a setting on a day you are at home.
A nanny for the same single day, nine hours, works out at roughly 39 hours a month — about CHF 1,771 at our Qualified rate including VAT. That is the one scenario in which a nanny is outright cheaper than the smallest legal Kita booking, and it is far more common than the sector likes to admit.
"Der monatliche Beitrag ist jeden Monat gleichbleibend." The monthly contribution is the same every month. Your invoice in the month your Kita closes for Christmas is identical to your invoice in November.
Closure calendars differ by provider and we are not going to quote a national average, because no verifiable one exists. What we can tell you is what to look for: a Christmas and New Year block, a week at Easter, a week in the summer and the cantonal public holidays. Ask for the Betriebsferien calendar in writing before you sign, and count the days.
Then count them again from your own leave allowance. If the Kita closes for three weeks and you have four weeks of holiday between two working parents, most of your annual leave has already been allocated by an institution. That is a cost, even though it never appears on an invoice.
These two rules interact badly for part-time and shift-working households. A parent working sixty percent across three short days does not need eleven and a half hours of institutional care three times a week. They need roughly five hours on each of three days. The Kita will sell them three full days at CHF 2,550 a month; a nanny will sell them fifteen hours a week, at home, at a time of their choosing, with a minimum session of two hours. Depending on where the hours fall, the monthly totals land closer together than anyone expects.
The section our competitors would delete. It is here because a comparison that never concedes anything is not a comparison.
Rundil charges per child. A Qualified nanny is CHF 42 an hour excluding VAT for one child; for two children in the same household the hourly rate doubles. That is a straightforward statement of how we price and it has an equally straightforward consequence: at two children, both a Kita and a directly employed nanny beat us on cost, and at three children it is not a contest.
The reason is structural rather than commercial. An institution spreads a room, a kitchen and a staffing ratio across many families, so a second sibling is an incremental place. A privately employed nanny is one wage, and one wage covers however many children are in the house. An agency-employed nanny carries a wage, employer contributions, insurance, cover and vetting per assignment, and we price that per child because that is what our obligation scales with. It is the honest weakness of the model and here it is in a table.
| Option, five days a week, nine hours a day | One child, per month | Two children, per month | Who carries the employer duties |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subsidised Zurich Kita at a 50% factor | ~CHF 1,172 | ~CHF 2,344 | The Kita |
| Private Zurich Kita, full tariff | CHF 3,950 | CHF 7,900 | The Kita |
| Directly employed nanny, EFZ minimum + on-costs | ~CHF 7,182 | ~CHF 7,182 | You |
| Rundil nanny, Qualified, incl. VAT | CHF 8,853 | CHF 17,706 | Rundil |
There is one exception worth flagging, because it changes the two-child arithmetic more than anything else on this page. A nanny share splits one nanny across two families, which splits the hourly cost while keeping the home setting and the one adult per small group. It is not a fit for every household, because the schedules have to align and one home has to host, but where it works it moves in-home care into the same price bracket as a private Kita place.
If you are choosing between two cantons twenty minutes apart, this is the structural difference that decides your childcare budget.
Both cantons put public money into Kita care and neither puts a franc into a nanny. But they do it through opposite mechanisms, and which side of the cantonal border you live on changes whether the Kita subsidy is something you can plan around or something you have to apply for and hope.
The city pays a Subvention directly to a subsidised Kita, scaled by a Beitragsfaktor calculated from your taxable income and your assets. Above a massgebender Betrag of CHF 100,000 the factor is capped and the subsidy disappears.
Two families at the same Kita, in the same room, with children the same age, can therefore pay CHF 12 and CHF 120 for the identical day. That is the scheme working as designed, but it means no page on the internet, including this one, can tell you what a Zurich Kita place will cost you without seeing your tax return.
There is also a ceiling of 240 subsidised care days a year. A five-day place runs to roughly 240 open days once closures are removed, so the cap rarely bites, but it does mean the subsidy is a finite allocation rather than an open-ended discount.
From 1 August 2026 the canton pays a Kantonspauschale of CHF 47.15 per Kita day for a child over eighteen months and CHF 52.60 for a child under eighteen months, or CHF 5.15 and CHF 6.65 per hour in a registered Tagesfamilie. It is set at 33% of average cantonal care rates.
Crucially it does not look at what you earn or what you own. The conditions are that all guardians are in employment or state-regulated training, that the child is older than three months, and that the family is resident in Zug. A banker and a bus driver in Baar receive exactly the same amount.
In Stadt Zug the cantonal amount stacks with municipal Betreuungsgutscheine for households under CHF 170,000 of income and CHF 500,000 of assets — two reductions on one invoice.
Neither scheme touches a nanny. We looked, and every scheme we could identify is tied to a licensed institution: a bewilligte Kita or a gemeldete Tagesfamilie. Care delivered in your own home by someone you employ, or by a company like ours, sits outside all of them. No canton we could identify subsidises a privately employed nanny. We have not audited all twenty-six, so that is the formulation we use rather than a flat "none exists", but you should budget for a nanny as an entirely private cost. The full picture, including the tax deduction that does apply, is on our childcare subsidies in Switzerland page.
The single biggest source of confusion in this comparison is that people compare a Kita's total cost with a nanny's gross wage. They are not the same kind of number.
When you employ a nanny directly in Switzerland you become an employer. Not metaphorically, but legally, with a registration, a payroll and a set of contributions. The federal NAV Hauswirtschaft sets binding minimum hourly wages in every canton except Geneva, and it applies from an average of five hours a week with the same employer. From 1 January 2026 those minima rose by 2% to CHF 20.35 for unskilled work, CHF 22.30 for unskilled staff with four or more years of experience and for EBA holders, and CHF 24.55 for EFZ holders. Anyone quoting you the 2025 figures is quoting you a wage that is now unlawful.
The gross wage is where the cost starts, not where it ends. On top sit AHV/IV/EO, ALV, accident insurance under UVG, family allowance contributions to the cantonal FAK, occupational pension under BVG once the threshold is crossed, and the 8.33% holiday uplift that converts a four-week entitlement into an hourly figure. Taken together, the true cost of a directly employed nanny lands at roughly 1.5 times her gross hourly wage, before you have spent an hour on administration.
| NAV Hauswirtschaft 2026 category | Gross minimum per hour | True cost at roughly 1.5× | What that buys you |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unskilled | CHF 20.35 | ~CHF 30.53 | One person, no cover, you are the employer |
| Unskilled, 4+ years, and EBA | CHF 22.30 | ~CHF 33.45 | One person, no cover, you are the employer |
| EFZ qualified | CHF 24.55 | ~CHF 36.83 | One person, no cover, you are the employer |
| Rundil Qualified, incl. VAT | — | CHF 45.40 | Vetted nanny, cover arranged, zero employer duties |
| Rundil Experienced, incl. VAT | — | CHF 50.81 | Senior nanny, cover arranged, zero employer duties |
The gap between a compliant direct hire at CHF 36.83 and our Qualified rate at CHF 45.40 is therefore around CHF 8.57 an hour, not the CHF 20 that a raw wage comparison suggests. That difference is the price of not being an employer: no AHV registration, no BVG affiliation, no UVG policy, no payroll run, no year-end salary certificate, no termination process, no holiday accrual to track and no scramble when your nanny gives notice. Whether that is worth CHF 8.57 an hour is a genuine judgement call and depends entirely on how you value your own time and risk.
We set out the complete arithmetic, including the gross-to-true-cost bridge and what each of our four tiers includes, on the nanny price in Switzerland page. Holiday entitlement in particular catches out families who hire directly, and we have written that up separately at nanny holiday entitlement in Switzerland.
Ask any parent who has switched from a Kita to in-home care why they did it. The answer is almost never price.
A Kita cannot admit a child with a fever. This is not obstinacy, it is the correct operation of a group setting: one febrile toddler in a room of twelve is a public health problem, and every Kita in Switzerland has an exclusion policy that says so. The rule is right. The consequence for a working household is severe.
Small children in group care get ill often, particularly in their first year of attendance and particularly between November and March. Each episode produces the same morning: a temperature at 06:30, a Kita that will not take the child, two parents with meetings, and a negotiation about whose day is less important. Swiss law gives you leave to care for a sick child, and it is a real protection, but it is a limited allowance and it does not restore the day you had planned. Nor does it help the parent who has already spent the allowance by February.
A child with a fever cannot be admitted to a Kita. The place you are paying for that month is unavailable, and the monthly fee does not adjust.
One parent cancels. In most households the same parent cancels each time, and over a winter that becomes a visible pattern at work.
In-home care is not a group setting, so a mildly unwell child is simply a child being looked after at home, in their own bed, by a familiar adult.
You have paid for a place your child could not use and paid again in lost working hours. That is the true cost of the cheaper hourly rate.
Half the advice online still tells expat parents to join a Kita list at twelve weeks pregnant. For Zurich, the data no longer supports that.
For most of the last decade the standard advice in every relocation guide was the same: register for a Kita before the birth, register at several, and expect to wait. That advice was correct when it was written. Reporting in November 2025 shows the picture has changed, at least in the larger cities, and a page that repeats the old warning to sell you a nanny would be doing exactly what we have criticised elsewhere on this site.
The reported supply of Kita places in Zurich relative to the preschool population, the highest figure recorded.
Places are being used, but the sector is no longer expanding into a shortage. Supply and demand have converged.
The demographic driver behind the shift. Fewer preschool children in the city than four years ago.
The practical implication for this comparison is straightforward. If you are in Zurich and a Kita place is what you want, the probability of getting one is better than the internet suggests, and you should try. Do not choose a nanny because you have been frightened about a waiting list. Choose one because of the hours, the setting, the sibling arithmetic or the sick-child problem — the reasons that are still true.
Zug is a different market. Supply there remains tighter, the population has grown rather than contracted, and the new Kantonspauschale arriving on 1 August 2026 will increase demand for places rather than reduce it, because it makes a Kita day materially cheaper for every eligible household regardless of income. A subsidy that increases affordability without increasing capacity is a subsidy that lengthens queues. If you are in Zug and planning care for late 2026, put your name down early and have a fallback.
You already know roughly what a Kita week costs you. Put the same week through this and see the real difference for your household, per child, including 8.1% VAT.
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.
The Kita comparison is one decision. Employing the nanny yourself or booking through Rundil is a second, separate one — and this is where the employer duties land.
The employer column of the table above is a real bill someone pays. When you book Rundil, the person paying it is Rundil. We are a managed childcare service, not a placement or nanny agency: we employ the nanny, so the AHV number, the BVG number, the accident cover, the sick pay and the notice period are ours. Your household never registers as an employer and never files anything.
Strip out price for a moment. These are different products, and the differences are not small.
A Kita and a nanny are frequently discussed as though they were two prices for the same thing. They are not. One is group care in a licensed institution with a pedagogical programme, fixed hours and a peer group. The other is one adult in your home, working to your routine, with your child as the only agenda. Families who are disappointed by either option are usually families who bought the wrong product rather than the wrong price.
| In a normal week | Kita | Nanny at home |
|---|---|---|
| Hours available | Roughly 06:45 to 18:15, fixed | The hours you book, including early mornings and evenings |
| Minimum you can buy | Commonly two days a week | A two-hour session |
| Setting | A group room with a peer group | Your home, your routine, your child's own things |
| Adult to child | One adult to a group, by legal ratio | One adult to your family |
| Meals | Provided and included | Prepared in your kitchen to your preferences |
| Child mildly unwell | Cannot attend | Care continues at home |
| Travel | You do drop-off and pick-up, twice a day | None — care starts at your front door |
| Holidays | Provider closure weeks, still billed | You book around your own leave |
| Language exposure | Immersion in the Kita's working language | The language you choose, one-to-one |
| School-age children | Hort or Mittagstisch, separately arranged | Collection, homework and the gap until you are home |
Two rows in that table deserve more than a line. The travel row is routinely dismissed and should not be. A Kita run adds between twenty and sixty minutes to each end of a working day for most families in a Swiss city, done twice, in all weather, with a toddler who has opinions about coats. Over a year that is a substantial number of hours, and it is not on any invoice.
The school-age row matters because the comparison changes completely once a child starts school. Swiss school days are short, fragmented and dotted with long lunch breaks and free afternoons that vary by year group. A Kita is no longer the alternative; the alternative is a Hort place, a Mittagstisch, or somebody collecting your child at 11:45 and again at 15:20. We have written that case up separately at after-school nanny care in Switzerland, because it is a different problem from the preschool one this page is mostly about.
Not everything a Kita does can be replicated by one adult in a living room, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.
There are real developmental arguments for group care and they should be weighed properly rather than waved away by a company that sells the alternative. A Kita gives a child a stable peer group, daily practice at negotiating with other children, exposure to a structured group routine, and a professional pedagogical framework designed by people who do this for a living. For a first child in a household without cousins or neighbours the same age, that is worth a great deal.
Sharing, turn-taking, conflict and repair with other children happen naturally in a group room and have to be deliberately engineered by a nanny through playgroups, parks and organised meet-ups.
For an only child, or a child whose siblings are much older, this is the strongest single argument for a Kita place and it is not a price argument at all.
A good nanny builds a social week. She will know the local playgroup timetable and the other nannies in the neighbourhood. But it is her initiative rather than the structure of the setting, and that is a genuine difference.
A German-speaking Kita is one of the most effective routes into Swiss German for a young child in an English-speaking household, and families who intend to stay long term often value it above everything else on this page.
The reverse is also true. Families intending to leave, or wanting to preserve a home language that no institution will support, get something from one-to-one care that a group setting cannot offer.
This one is genuinely about your family's plans rather than about care quality. Decide which direction you need before you compare anything else.
Circle time, a group lunch, a shared nap, tidying together and lining up are all rehearsals for a Swiss kindergarten day, and children who have done them arrive better prepared for the transition.
A nanny can prepare a child academically and socially, and often does so more intensively one-to-one. What she cannot easily reproduce is the experience of being one of twelve.
Kita staff turnover is a real feature of the sector. A child may work through several key carers in two years, each transition costing settling-in time.
An assigned nanny is one relationship. For an anxious child, a child with additional needs, or a family that has just relocated and lost every other point of stability, that continuity is often the deciding factor.
Very few households choose one or the other outright. The realistic answer is usually a combination, and it is cheaper than either extreme.
Once you accept that a Kita is the cheaper hour and a nanny is the more flexible hour, the sensible conclusion is to buy the cheap hours from the Kita and the awkward ones from a nanny. That is what a large proportion of the families we work with have concluded independently, and it is worth setting out explicitly because nobody advertises it.
Two or three days at a subsidised or private Kita, on the days your working pattern is most predictable. Your child gets the peer group, the routine and the language immersion, and you get the cheapest hours available in the Swiss system for the days you were always going to need covered.
The 06:00 start before a flight, the 19:00 finish on a board night, the Wednesday afternoon a school year group has free, the fortnight your partner is travelling. These are the hours a Kita either does not sell or sells only as a whole additional day. A nanny sells them in two-hour sessions.
Ask for the Betriebsferien calendar the day you sign the Kita contract and book nanny cover for those weeks immediately. Christmas, Easter and the summer week are the moments when every family at your Kita is looking for the same thing at the same time, and the family that booked in September gets the nanny they know.
You will need it, probably several times in a first winter. Having a service you have already used and a nanny your child already recognises turns a 06:30 fever from a crisis into a phone call. This alone is the reason many families keep a small standing nanny booking rather than stopping entirely.
The hybrid also solves the two-children problem from earlier in this page. If both children are in a Kita for three days and a nanny covers the remaining two, our per-child pricing applies to a much smaller number of hours, and the total lands well below either a five-day nanny week or a five-day double Kita place. If both children are preschool age and the schedules align with another family, a nanny share compresses it further.
Answer these honestly and the choice usually makes itself without another spreadsheet.
In Stadt Zürich, run your income and assets through the city's calculation before anything else. If your contribution factor puts you near the bottom of the CHF 12 to CHF 120 range, the Kita is so much cheaper per hour that the rest of this page is a rounding error. In Zug from 1 August 2026 the Kantonspauschale is yours regardless of income, so subtract CHF 47.15 a day and see what remains.
If it does, a Kita can serve it. If your week is one day, or short days, or starts before the doors open, or ends after they close, then the cheap institutional hour is not available to you in the shape you need. That is a coverage problem, not a budget problem, and no amount of subsidy fixes it.
One preschool child tilts towards a nanny more easily than two, because our pricing is per child. Two children under school age tilt hard towards a Kita or a direct hire on cost. Two children at different stages, one at school and one at home, often tilt back towards in-home care, because a single nanny covers the school run and the toddler in the same afternoon.
Be specific. Name the parent who cancels, count how many times a winter that is sustainable, and ask what happens on the occasion when neither of you can. If the honest answer is that you have no plan, price a nanny not as an alternative to the Kita but as the answer to that question.
If a direct hire is on your list, read what it involves before you commit: the NAV minimum wage for the correct category, AHV and BVG registration, UVG cover, holiday accrual, notice periods and the reality that when your nanny is ill you have no cover. Some families are entirely comfortable with all of it. If you are not, that is exactly what our rate buys.
If the answers point at a Kita, take the place with our blessing and come back when you hit the closure weeks. If they point at in-home care, the next question is what it costs for your specific week, which is what the calculator above is for. And if they point at both, that is not indecision. That is the hybrid, and it is the arrangement we see most often.
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.
Eighteen answers, each one written to be read on its own, with the figure in the first sentence wherever there is a figure to give.
Rundil charges the same rate everywhere in Switzerland. What changes canton by canton is the cost of the alternative — so the gap between employing a nanny yourself and booking one from us is widest in Vaud and narrowest in Zug.
Every figure quoted on this page is set out in full somewhere in the cluster.
The complete arithmetic from the NAV minimum wage to the number on your invoice, tier by tier.
See the maths →Zug's new cantonal allowance, Zurich's income-tested subsidy, and the tax deduction a nanny does qualify for.
Check what you get →For the morning a temperature appears and the Kita cannot take your child but your day still has to happen.
See the cover →What being the employer actually involves — contract, payroll, insurance and the risks nobody warns you about.
Read the guide →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.
