Billionnaires have been moving to Palm Beach and that has changed the local market for nannys.
The New Yorker has the story:
The Six-Figure Nannies and Housekeepers of Palm Beach. An influx of ultra-high-net-worth newcomers has increased demand for experienced—and discreet—household staff. By Emily Witt
"Palm Beach is an island—known locally as “the Island”—connected to the larger and less posh city of West Palm Beach, on the mainland, by a series of bridges. It was first developed as a winter escape for the wealthy, in the late nineteenth century, by the railroad and Standard Oil magnate Henry Flagler, and quickly became an old-money enclave whose pretentiousness was entwined with antisemitism and racism.
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" an estimated sixty-five billionaires now have homes in Palm Beach County. President Trump’s ties to Florida, especially his seventeen-acre oceanfront social club, Mar-a-Lago, have cemented South Florida as a center of financial and political power, and there’s heavy overlap between the list of his boosters and the newcomers to Palm Beach
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"A director of estates managing a family’s eight or ten houses might earn three to five hundred thousand dollars a year and oversee dozens of employees and contractors, but even housekeepers, if they possess the right qualifications, can earn more than a hundred thousand dollars a year with benefits, and paid vacation, in certain markets
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"Thompson said that she had already signed up two hundred and fourteen
members to the Polo Club that year. (At thirty-four thousand dollars,
its initiation fee is much lower than those of Palm Beach’s Carriage
House, the Breakers, or Mar-a-Lago, whose fee Trump hiked in August to a
million dollars.)
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" In job interviews, Lisa Miller, senior search executive with Mahler Private Staffing, will test candidates. “One of the joys of what I do is getting them not to be discreet,” Miller said, of the interviewing process. “I ask them questions and see if they share too much.”
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“The parents want to have the top staff, so they hire the top nannies,” she said. “They’ve been in élite people’s homes, they don’t get starstruck if they see a professional athlete or someone that’s in the White House.”