Nanny Service Switzerland — from CHF 42/h + 8.1% MwSt.
Nanny Service Switzerland — from CHF 42/h + 8.1% MwSt.
One warm, criminal-record-checked, CPR-certified nanny, in your own living room, anywhere from the Altstadt to Rotkreuz and up into the Ägerital. Rundil stays the legal employer, so SVA Zug, AHV, BVG and UVG are never your paperwork. Our office is on Oberneuhofstrasse in Baar — the canton we cover is the one we work in.
Rundil is a managed childcare service in canton Zug — not a placement or nanny agency. An English-speaking, criminal-record-checked, CPR-certified nanny works in your own home anywhere in the canton, from CHF 42 per hour excluding 8.1% VAT, charged per child with a two-hour minimum session. Rundil employs the nanny, so the family carries zero AHV, BVG and UVG and never registers with SVA Zug. A nanny is normally assigned within 48 to 72 hours, with guaranteed replacement cover and free cancellation up to 48 hours before a session.
One thing we will not hide: the cantonal Kantonspauschale Kinderbetreuung that starts on 1 August 2026 pays CHF 47.15 per Kita day and nothing at all towards a nanny or a Hort place. If you already hold a Kita place and full days suit you, the Kita is the cheaper option and we say so. The full arithmetic is set out further down this page.
Pick the tier and the weekly hours. You get the number immediately — no form, no callback, no "contact us for pricing", which is what every other nanny provider serving this canton will tell you.
The rate is identical in Zug, Baar, Rotkreuz and the Ägerital — the tier reflects the nanny, not your postcode. Rates are per child with a two-hour minimum session; tell us about siblings on the booking form and we confirm the exact price before anything starts. Flex covers the under-48-hour, out-of-hours, weekend and Betriebsferien bookings.
From 1 August 2026 canton Zug pays part of every family's childcare bill directly into the parents' bank account, monthly and in advance, with no income test and no asset test. It does not pay a franc towards a nanny. Here is the whole calculation, done honestly.
| Kantonspauschale Kinderbetreuung, 1 Aug 2026 – 31 Jul 2027 | Child 18 months and over | Child under 18 months |
|---|---|---|
| Licensed Kita, per child per day | CHF 47.15 | CHF 52.60 |
| Registered Tagesfamilie, per child per hour | CHF 5.15 | CHF 6.65 |
| Nanny or other private in-home care | CHF 0 | CHF 0 |
| Hort and after-school care | CHF 0 | CHF 0 |
One child aged two, three days a week, at the cantonal average Kita day rate, against a Rundil nanny covering the same three days at eight hours each.
| Three days a week, one child aged two | Zug Kita | Rundil nanny at home |
|---|---|---|
| Headline cost | CHF 139 per day (canton average) | CHF 50.81 per hour incl. VAT (Experienced) |
| Per month, before any subsidy | ≈ CHF 1,806 | ≈ CHF 5,280 |
| Kantonspauschale received | ≈ CHF 612 per month | CHF 0 |
| Net cost to the family, per month | ≈ CHF 1,194 | ≈ CHF 5,280 |
| Effective cost per hour of care | ≈ CHF 9 after the Pauschale | CHF 50.81 |
You do not have a place. A subsidy on a Kita place you have not been offered is worth nothing. KiBiZ — the canton's largest non-profit provider — tells parents plainly that demand for Kita places is high and to register as early as possible, and that baby places are the scarcest of all, with registration recommended from the start of pregnancy. Rundil assigns a nanny in 48 to 72 hours.
Your child has started school. The Pauschale stops at compulsory kindergarten, and Hort gets nothing either. From the first day of school, the 15:30 gap is entirely unsubsidised whatever you use to fill it — which is precisely the gap an after-school nanny exists for.
You need hours the Kita does not open. KiBiZ Kitas run 07:00 to 18:15 with a two-day-a-week minimum, and close for two weeks of Betriebsferien in summer plus the week between Christmas and New Year. Zug's school summer holiday ran from 4 July to 16 August 2026 — six weeks. A Kita bills in days; Rundil bills in hours, with a two-hour minimum. Eight hours spread across two afternoons is eight hours, not two days.
Someone is ill. A sick child stays home from the Kita, and the fee is still due. With a Tagesfamilie the care is owed and payable even when your child is absent, and KiBiZ's own FAQ tells parents that for carer absences of up to two weeks they must arrange alternative care themselves. Rundil sends a replacement, because Rundil employs the pool.
English is the language of your household. KiBiZ states its common working language as (Swiss) German. Every Rundil nanny speaks English as a minimum, and the canton has 41,322 foreign residents — 30.6% of the population, with British nationals the third-largest group.
And one number that does move in the nanny's favour: canton Zug lets working parents deduct documented third-party childcare costs per child per year, and both the federal and cantonal ceilings have been raised substantially in recent years. We are deliberately not printing a franc figure here — the cantonal maximum is set in the Zug Steuerbuch and changes, so confirm the current amount with the cantonal tax office or your adviser. What matters is the mechanism: a deduction needs a written contract, a real invoice and a traceable payment. Rundil issues a monthly VAT invoice in English against a signed service agreement. A cash arrangement found on a marketplace produces nothing you can put on a tax return.
Thirty thousand registered companies in a canton of 135,000 people. Glencore and Partners Group in Baar, Roche Diagnostics and Johnson & Johnson in Rotkreuz, Siemens Smart Infrastructure and V-ZUG in the city. Two hundred commodity firms and one of Europe's densest blockchain clusters. Families arrive on three-year assignments with two careers, no grandparents within a thousand kilometres, and a Kita waiting list that started before they landed. Rundil answers that with a nanny in the home in 48 to 72 hours and no employment paperwork attached to it.
Rundil's operating company sits on Oberneuhofstrasse in Baar. We are not a Zürich provider that has added Zug to a list of areas served, and not a Riviera boutique that covers the canton by email.
Under Swiss law a household employee must be registered from the very first franc — no CHF 2,300 exemption applies. Rundil carries that, so no correspondence from SVA Zug ever lands on your kitchen table.
ISZL publishes a day of 08:50 to 15:30 in Baar and 08:40 to 16:00 at Riverside in Hünenberg. Two parents on Zug working hours cannot meet either end of that. A nanny can.
Same nanny, same routine, guaranteed replacement if she is ever unavailable, and reassignment without an awkward conversation if the fit is not right. No minimum term to escape from.
The only nanny agency headquartered in canton Zug that publishes a fee schedule charges CHF 250 to register plus 12% of the nanny's gross annual salary, excluding VAT — and at the end of it the family signs the employment contract. It then offers payroll administration as a separate paid service, to help you survive the problem it just created. On a nanny earning CHF 60,000 a year that commission alone is around CHF 7,200 before VAT. Rundil charges none of it, because Rundil is the employer.
The hourly wage is the part of the bill everybody quotes. Below is the part nobody quotes — and exactly where each item lands.
Care.com's own Swiss site tells parents, in writing, that it does not verify the identity or the personal details of its caregivers. Rundil verifies all of it before a nanny reaches your front door.
The same vetted, English-speaking nanny, shaped around the thing your family is actually short of — a place, an afternoon, a holiday week, or a morning that fell apart at 06:40.
A fixed rhythm with one nanny your child knows: the same face, the same routine, the same person at the door on a Tuesday.
Collection at 15:30 in Baar or 16:00 at Riverside in Hünenberg, then snack, homework and clubs until a parent is actually home.
A child sent home from the Kita, a flight that moved, a carer who cancelled. Flex is the under-48-hour rate, and the nanny is still Rundil-employed and checked.
Bridge the months between arriving in the canton and the place you were promised. Start in 48 to 72 hours, stop the week the Kita calls, pay nothing to leave.
Where Zug places are scarcest and day rates highest. Feeding, naps, routines and a steady adult in the house during the hardest first year.
Zug Kitas close for two weeks in summer and the week between Christmas and New Year, and the school holiday is six weeks long. Book the weeks, not a contract.
Boxes, a Gemeinde appointment, a school tour and two jobs starting on Monday. An English-speaking nanny from day one, booked before you land.
Subsidies, deductions, Kita versus nanny, what a nanny really costs in Switzerland. Read before you commit to anything — including us.
Zug pays the highest nanny wages in the country, and the wage is only ever the start of the bill. Here is what each route really costs the family.
No shortlist to read, no interviews to schedule, no contract to have translated. Most Zug families are covered inside three days.
Ages, municipality, the hours you are short of, and the date you need cover from. Two minutes on the booking form.
Rundil assigns a vetted, English-speaking nanny to your family profile, normally within 48 to 72 hours, and confirms her name and schedule by WhatsApp.
She arrives and the routine begins. If she is ever unavailable we send cover; if the fit is wrong we reassign; if your assignment ends, you simply stop.
Different postcodes, different jobs, one shared problem: the hours do not fit and nobody local can take the children.
Two to four years in Baar or Rotkreuz, both parents working, and no appetite for becoming a Swiss employer for the duration. One service agreement, one invoice, one clean ending.
Registered, on the list, and still weeks or months from a start date — especially for a baby. Cover that starts in 48 hours and stops the day the place comes through.
A school day that ends at 15:30 in Baar or 16:00 in Hünenberg, and a working day that does not. Collection, snack, homework and clubs with the same trusted adult.
One parent in Singapore, Houston or London for ten days at a time. Flex cover for the evenings, the early flights and the mornings that unravel.
Zug's childcare gap is not a mystery. It is the arithmetic of two international careers, an international school timetable, and 41,322 residents who did not grow up here.
The International School of Zug and Luzern teaches 1,179 students across two campuses in this canton — around 800 aged 3 to 14 at the Zug Campus in Baar, and roughly 400 aged 14 to 18 at Riverside in Hünenberg. Sixty nationalities are represented, only about 5% of students are Swiss, and the most common nationality is British. The published day runs 08:50 to 15:30 for primary and middle school and 08:40 to 16:00 in high school. Fees for 2026/27 run from CHF 26,300 to CHF 39,700 a year — a household that has committed to that does not want the afternoon improvised.
Glencore and Partners Group in Baar. Roche Diagnostics and Johnson & Johnson in Rotkreuz. Siemens Smart Infrastructure and V-ZUG in the city. More than 200 commodity-trading enterprises sit inside a wider cluster of 1,700-plus companies employing around 14,000 people and generating roughly a third of cantonal GDP, alongside one of Europe's densest blockchain clusters. Canton Zug holds over 30,000 registered companies for 134,977 residents, and remains one of Switzerland's lowest-tax cantons — though Luzern overtook it for that particular title in May 2026. Only two of the canton's large employers, both in Rotkreuz, run childcare of their own.
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 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.
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.
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.
All eleven of them, not the convenient six. If your child sleeps in this canton, a Rundil nanny can work in your home.
The questions Zug parents actually send us — about the new cantonal subsidy, the waiting lists, SVA Zug, the school run and what any of it costs.
Rundil Childcare provides English-speaking, fully managed nanny care across canton Zug — in the city, in Baar and Cham, in Steinhausen and Hünenberg, out in Risch–Rotkreuz and up in Unterägeri, Oberägeri, Menzingen, Walchwil and Neuheim. The structural point is the one that matters: Rundil is the employer of every nanny, not a placement or recruitment agency. You buy a childcare service and sign a service agreement. You never sign an employment contract, never register with SVA Zug, and never carry AHV, BVG or UVG. In a canton where 30,000-plus registered companies serve 134,977 residents and 30.6% of those residents hold a foreign passport, that removal of paperwork is often worth more than the hourly rate.
Demand here is structurally higher than almost anywhere else in Switzerland: high household incomes, a dense international population, families with no grandparents in the country, and a large group of parents who come from places where a nanny is simply how childcare works. The Zuger Zeitung looked at this in February 2020 and counted around fifty unfilled nanny vacancies in the canton at that time; we have not seen a more recent count and do not claim one. What is current is the supply picture around it — 22 recognised Kitas in the city of Zug, day rates averaging CHF 139 and CHF 158 for babies, waiting times measured in months rather than weeks, and only two large Zug employers, both in Rotkreuz, running childcare of their own.
We will not tell you a nanny is cheaper than a subsidised Kita place for one child in standard hours, because from 1 August 2026 it is not: the Kantonspauschale Kinderbetreuung pays CHF 47.15 per Kita day for a child over 18 months and CHF 52.60 for a baby, income- and asset-independent, and pays a nanny nothing. We will not print a cantonal tax-deduction figure we cannot verify against the Zug Steuerbuch today. And we will not repeat a six-year-old vacancy statistic as though it were this morning's. What we will say is that a nanny solves a different problem — no place, wrong hours, a closed Kita, a sick child, an English-speaking household, a school day that ends at 15:30 — and that Rundil solves it without ever making you an employer.
Rundil charges CHF 42, 47 or 54 per hour excluding 8.1% VAT for planned care and CHF 55 per hour on the Flex on-demand tier, per child, with a two-hour minimum session. There is one national rate — Zug pays what Zürich pays — no registration fee, no placement fee, no minimum term, and free cancellation up to 48 hours before a session. Every nanny holds a Swiss criminal-record extract and current CPR and paediatric first-aid certification, and replacement cover is guaranteed. Full tier detail sits on the nanny cost in Switzerland page, and the national picture on the nanny service Switzerland hub. For academic support beyond a nanny's scope, families sometimes also use Rundil Tutoring.
English-speaking, criminal-record-checked, CPR-certified nannies from CHF 42 an hour excluding VAT, in all eleven Zug municipalities, assigned in 48 to 72 hours. Rundil is the employer, so you simply have childcare.
