"Nanny earns up to $167/hour working only 2 months a year for the wealthy"
Gloria Richards, an off-Broadway actress, spends half of each year nannying for the ultra-wealthy, earning up to $167 per hour, plus covered flights and accommodations. Nannying for the ultra-wealthy isn't always about childcare: Richards spends most of her working hours coordinating children's educational and social calendars. She gets paid up to $2,000 per day for 12 to 15 hours of work, she says. The glamour comes with an emotional tax: Richards often acts as a companion for neurodivergent children with absent and complicated parents, she says. And as a Black woman helping raise wealthy white kids, she has to navigate cultural situations tactfully — or risk losing her paycheck.
