Hiring Household Staff in Aspen

A seasonal market where the best staff travel to the home, and the home needs managing all year.

Staffing in Aspen is shaped by a single fact: most of the residences are second or third homes, lived in for the winter and a stretch of summer and quiet in between. That changes the job in two ways.

First, the people. Many families want a nanny who comes for the ski season and follows the family home afterward, or who rotates on a set schedule, so seasonal and travel placements are the norm rather than the exception. The right professional is often someone who relocates for the role rather than someone who happens to live nearby, which rewards an agency that can recruit well beyond the valley.

Second, the homes themselves. These are large properties, often very large. The Wall Street Journal reported the 2025 sale of a 3,700-acre compound near Aspen for $120 million, and homes on that scale do not look after themselves. A residence occupied only part of the year still has to be maintained, secured, opened and closed between visits, and made ready the moment the family flies in. Property and household managers who can run a home in the owners' absence, to a standard that never lapses, are in steady demand.

The professionals who thrive here tend to share a few traits: capable in a mountain and outdoor setting, fluent in the logistics of ski-country life, flexible about a seasonal calendar, and deeply discreet, since Aspen draws a clientele that prizes privacy.

We maintain a presence serving Aspen and the Rockies, and because we recruit to a specific brief and place professionals anywhere, we routinely bring seasonal and travel staff into the valley from wherever the right person happens to be. At Nannies + more…®, it is simply how we work.

Source: The Wall Street Journal, December 2025.