Nanny Service Switzerland — from CHF 42/h + 8.1% MwSt.
Nanny Service Switzerland — from CHF 42/h + 8.1% MwSt.
In-home care from Seefeld to Küsnacht and Oerlikon to Thalwil, from an English-speaking nanny who holds a Swiss criminal-record extract and current CPR. Rundil is her legal employer — so there is no SVA Zürich registration, no AHV, no BVG, no UVG and no placement fee waiting for you. The rate is published: CHF 42 to 55 an hour.
A nanny service in Zurich from Rundil costs CHF 42, 47 or 54 an hour excl. 8.1% VAT depending on the nanny's experience tier, or CHF 55 on the on-demand Flex rate, charged per child with a two-hour minimum session. Rundil is the nanny's legal employer, so a Zürich household registers with nobody, pays no AHV, BVG or UVG, and pays no placement fee — where the published Zürich agency norm is CHF 690 plus 17% of the nanny's annual gross salary. Care happens in your own home, anywhere from Kreis 1 to Schwamendingen and out along both lake shores, and a nanny is normally assigned within 48 to 72 hours. There is no waiting list.
Pick the tier and the hours. You get the weekly and monthly figure with VAT already in it — not a callback, not a brochure, not "pricing depends on your needs".
Rates are charged per child, with a two-hour minimum session. Two children in one visit are booked together on the form and priced together before you commit. Flex covers anything under 48 hours' notice, evenings, weekends and school holidays. The rate does not change by postcode — Zollikon and Altstetten pay the same.
Solid childcare experience, fully vetted. The right choice for steady afternoons and predictable weeks.
Several years of professional experience and verified references. What most Zürich households book for the full working week.
A degree in education or childcare and primary-curriculum awareness — for households running an international school timetable at home.
Under 48 hours' notice, out of hours, weekends, Sportferien and the morning a temperature appears at 06:40.
A third of this city holds a foreign passport — 33.9% of Zürich's 452,421 residents at the end of 2025. Most of them discover the same thing in week three: hire a nanny directly and Swiss law makes you her employer, with a registration deadline of 30 days at SVA Zürich and a contribution schedule to run in German. Rundil takes that whole role. We employ her, we run the payroll, we carry the insurance — you book hours and receive one invoice.
Rundil holds the employment contract, the AHV account, the BVG affiliation and the UVG policy. Your household appears on none of them. You sign a service agreement instead.
Five of the eight nanny brands ranking for Zürich publish no price at all. Ours are here, all four of them, with the VAT rate stated and the per-child rule spelled out.
No drop-off across town at 07:15, no Kita bag, no group of twelve. Your nanny comes to your flat in Wiedikon or your house in Erlenbach, and the day starts where the toys are.
A single private nanny with a fever is a cancelled working day. Because we employ a Zürich pool rather than introduce one person, a substitute is guaranteed and the week holds.
Not one nanny agency ranking for Zürich employs the nanny. Rockmybaby writes it down in its own FAQ: the contract of employment is between the family and the candidate. Here is the list that sentence hands you, next to the same list with Rundil.
Placement agencies, boutique matchmakers, household-staffing firms, marketplaces with a thousand Zürich profiles — every one of them ends the same way, with your name on the employment contract and a compensation-office reference number in your inbox. Rundil is a managed childcare service. The employer's role never becomes yours, not on day one and not in year three.
Zürich's largest childcare marketplace carries roughly a thousand nanny profiles for this city. Browsing them is free. Checking them is entirely your job. Ours is done before assignment, every time.
One vetted, English-speaking nanny, shaped around the shifts a Zürich family actually works — the 07:00 handover, the gap after school lets out, and the Thursday that falls apart at 06:40.
The same nanny, the same hours, the same face at the door — so your children stop asking who is collecting them today.
Zürich's Hort and Tagesschule rarely map onto a 15:00 finish and a 19:00 return. A nanny does the pickup, the snack, the reading and the calm bit in between.
A temperature at 06:40, a Kita closure day, a flight that moves. Flex covers anything inside 48 hours, evenings and weekends included.
Feeding rhythms, naps that finally hold, and an experienced pair of hands in the house while one parent goes back to work.
Siblings stay together in their own home rather than being split across a Kita group and a Hort module. Add them on the form and we price the visit before you commit.
Boxes still taped shut, school not started, both jobs already begun. English-first care from the week you land, with nothing to register.
Every tier, the VAT, the per-child rule and what a direct hire really costs once contributions and holiday pay are counted.
Plenty of Zürich households end up over the cantonal line. Same service, same rates, same employer model in Zug, Baar and Cham.
Zürich parents do the maths. So here it is, with the sources named: what nannies are paid in this canton, what employing one adds on top, what the city will and will not subsidise, and where a Kita genuinely beats us.
| What gets added | Effect on the hourly figure | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Gross wage, canton Zürich | CHF 31.50/h | quitt.ch's 2026 figure for canton Zürich, drawn from 4,055 real registered private-household contracts. The Swiss average is CHF 29.30; Zug is CHF 32.40. |
| Holiday supplement on hourly pay | +8.33% | Four weeks' paid holiday is the statutory minimum, and hourly-paid staff receive it as a wage supplement. |
| Thirteenth month | +8.33% | Not compulsory, but standard practice in Zürich nanny contracts and budgeted by the agencies that publish guidance. |
| Employer social contributions | +13–15% | AHV/IV/EO 5.3%, ALV 1.1%, UVG-BU 0.505%, FAK Zürich 1.025%, plus the employer's BVG share once pay passes CHF 1,890 a month. |
| All-in, before any admin | ≈ CHF 42/h | Which is exactly Rundil's entry rate — except ours already contains the employer, the insurance, the payroll and the cover. |
The City of Zürich subsidises childcare — but it pays the money to the Kita, not to you, and only to Kitas and Tagesfamilien holding a subsidy contract with the city. In the city's own words: "Die Unterstützung wird direkt an die Kita gezahlt und die Kita berechnet Ihnen dann einen niedrigeren Elternbeitrag." The size of the reduction is set by your Beitragsfaktor, which is calculated from a relevant income figure and tapers as that figure rises.
| Your Beitragsfaktor | You pay the Kita, per day | The city pays the Kita, per day |
|---|---|---|
| 0% | CHF 12 | CHF 108 |
| 50% | CHF 66 | CHF 54 |
| 75% | CHF 93 | CHF 27 |
| At or above the Grenzbetrag | CHF 120 — the Maximaltarif | CHF 0 |
| A nanny at home, any income | Your full rate | CHF 0 — private in-home care sits outside the scheme entirely |
| What you are comparing | A City of Zürich Kita place | A Rundil nanny at home |
|---|---|---|
| Headline price | CHF 120 a day is the city's maximum for a subsidised place; the practical Zürich band runs CHF 100–150 a day, and roughly CHF 2,500 a month full-time. | CHF 47 an hour at the Experienced tier, excl. 8.1% VAT, per child. |
| Cost per hour | Cheaper — clearly. CHF 120 over an eight-hour day is about CHF 15 an hour. | More expensive per hour, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. |
| Attention | A group setting with a staff ratio, which many children love. | One adult, your children, your home. Nobody else's cold. |
| A second child | A second full place, and often a second waiting position. | The same visit. Priced per child, but one commute and one bedtime. |
| A sick child | Stays home — and so does a parent. | The nanny comes to the sick child. Nobody takes the day off. |
| Hours | Fixed days and fixed opening hours. | Your hours: 07:00 starts, 19:00 finishes, split shifts, school runs. |
| Getting started | Register early; availability depends on your Kreis, your days and your child's age group. | Assigned in 48–72 hours. No queue to join first. |
| Subsidy | Possible below the Grenzbetrag, paid straight to the Kita. | None. Outside the scheme. |
Four routes, four very different sets of small print. Three of them end with your name on an employment contract.
Three steps, usually inside 48 to 72 hours, with no interviews to run and no forms to file at any Amt.
Ages, hours, your Kreis or municipality, the languages you would like at home. Two minutes on the booking form.
A vetted, employed, English-speaking nanny from the Zürich pool, assigned to your family profile and confirmed by name on WhatsApp.
She arrives and the routine begins. If she is ever unavailable we send cover; if the fit is wrong we reassign, at no cost.
Different postcodes, different shifts, one shared requirement: care that is reliable and legal without a household becoming an employer.
Both parents in Kreis 1 or Zürich West by 08:30, nobody within 800 kilometres to call. You need the week to hold without a standing rota of favours.
Four weeks in the country, a relocation flat in Oerlikon or Seefeld, school not started and both roles already live. English from day one, nothing to register.
A campus bus that returns before you do and an afternoon that needs shape — snack, reading, an instrument, calm — rather than supervision until 19:00.
Thalwil is twelve to fifteen minutes from the Hauptbahnhof and Küsnacht is barely more — but the 07:00 and the 18:45 are still yours to cover, and no Hort module reaches either end.
Tagesschule enrolment is automatic on fixed days and the child stays on campus for lunch and homework. Hort and Tagesstrukturen have to be registered for separately, and availability varies by municipality. Neither reaches 07:00, and neither holds until a Bahnhofstrasse meeting overruns. A nanny covers the two windows that are actually yours: roughly 07:00–09:00 and 15:00–19:00.
Every Kreis in the city, the Goldküste, the left bank and out to Winterthur. One national rate — your postcode changes the tram, not the price.
The same four rates from the top of this page, turned into the figures you will see on an invoice. Monthly estimates use 4.33 weeks and include 8.1% VAT.
| Tier | 2-hour session | 8 hours a week | ≈ per month, incl. VAT |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qualified · CHF 42/h | CHF 84 | CHF 336 | CHF 1,573 |
| Experienced · CHF 47/h | CHF 94 | CHF 376 | CHF 1,760 |
| Expert · CHF 54/h | CHF 108 | CHF 432 | CHF 2,022 |
| Flex · CHF 55/h | CHF 110 | On-demand | Billed as used |
For a settled Zürich week — the same days, the same hours, a predictable invoice.
For weeks that never repeat — travel rotations, shift patterns, school holidays.
Same nannies, same vetting, same employer model. The difference is the rhythm — here is where to start.
| Type of care | Typical rhythm | Best for | Start here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular weekly careMost requested | ~8 hrs/week+ | A fixed Zürich week with one trusted nanny and one monthly invoice. | The managed service explained → |
| After school | Weekday afternoons | The gap between the school gate and your front door. | After-school nanny → |
| Emergency & short notice | Under 48h · Flex | Sick days, closure days and the meeting that will not move. | Emergency nanny → |
| Pricing & tiers | — | Comparing the four rates, the VAT and what each tier includes. | Nanny cost Switzerland → |
| Nanny in Zug | In-home · canton Zug | Households in Zug, Baar and Cham, or moving there from the city. | Nanny service Zug → |
| Reading first | — | Guides on Swiss childcare, costs and arriving with young children. | Childcare blog hub → |
The two failure modes of private childcare in Zürich — being let down on a Tuesday, and being tied to something you have outgrown — written down instead of implied.
An introduction agency puts you in touch with an individual and then steps back; when that individual is ill, so is your childcare. Because Rundil employs a Zürich pool, a substitute is guaranteed and the Tuesday holds. If the fit turns out to be wrong, we reassign — at no cost, and without you having to have the conversation.
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.
Search for a nanny service in Zurich and you will meet placement agencies, boutique matchmakers, household-staffing firms and marketplaces with a thousand local profiles. They differ in tone and in price transparency, but not in structure: each one introduces you to a person, and then you become that person's employer under Swiss law. Rockmybaby says so in its own FAQ. Luna Nannies' excellent cost guide spends its length explaining the contributions you will owe. Rundil is built the other way round. Rundil employs the nanny — the contract, the AHV account, the BVG affiliation, the UVG policy and the payroll all sit with us — and your household simply buys hours of childcare under a service agreement. It is a managed childcare service, not a placement or introduction agency, and there is no placement fee at any point.
Rundil charges CHF 42, 47 or 54 an hour excl. 8.1% VAT for planned care and CHF 55 on the Flex on-demand rate, per child, with a two-hour minimum session and one national rate that does not move with your postcode. Those numbers look higher than the CHF 31.50 an hour that quitt.ch recorded as the canton Zürich nanny wage for 2026 across 4,055 registered contracts — until you add the 8.33% holiday supplement, the thirteenth month, and 13–15% of employer social contributions, at which point a direct hire lands at roughly CHF 42 an hour and still leaves you filing with SVA Zürich, running payroll and finding your own cover when she is ill. Against a Zürich Kita we are candid: at the city's CHF 120 daily maximum, group care is far cheaper per hour. What we sell instead is one adult for your children, in your home, on your hours, with siblings in one visit and a guaranteed substitute when things go wrong.
The City of Zürich's childcare subsidy goes to the Kita, not to you, and only to Kitas and Tagesfamilien under contract with the city; a nanny attracts none of it, and once the relevant amount reaches the Grenzbetrag of CHF 100,000 there is no entitlement even for a Kita place. The childcare tax deduction, by contrast, does reach properly declared in-home care — up to CHF 25,000 per child cantonally and CHF 25,800 federally, subject to your circumstances. On the school day, Tagesschule and Hort between them still leave the 07:00–09:00 and 15:00–19:00 windows that a commuting Zürich household actually has to cover, whether the school is Zurich International School, ICS, SIS Wollishofen, Lakeside Küsnacht or the local Volksschule. And on timing: a nanny is assigned in 48 to 72 hours, from Kreis 1 to Schwamendingen and out to Küsnacht, Thalwil and Winterthur, with free cancellation up to 48 hours before a session and nothing to be locked into afterwards.
English-speaking, criminal-record-checked, CPR-certified nannies from CHF 42 an hour, assigned in 48–72 hours across every Kreis and both lake shores. No placement fee, no waiting list, no AHV.
