Hiring Household Staff in Palm Beach

Why a placement here is so often a placement across two homes.

The most important thing to understand about staffing a home in Palm Beach is that it is rarely about one home. Many families here keep a primary residence in the Northeast and come to the island for the season, so the role you are hiring for often spans two households and a calendar that moves between them. The same nanny or estate manager may run the Palm Beach house through the winter and a home in Greenwich, New York, or Boston in the summer. That pattern has only deepened as the financial industry has moved south, a shift Bloomberg has chronicled as the rise of "Wall Street South," and the more families that anchor a second home on the island, the more a placement here becomes a placement across two. Rotational and travel arrangements are the norm, not the exception, and the professionals who do this well are a particular kind: organized, mobile, and able to hold a single standard across more than one residence.

The seasonal rhythm shapes everything else. A home occupied only part of the year still has to be maintained, secured, and made ready the instant the family arrives, so property and household management, the quiet work of keeping a residence in perfect order while it sits empty, matters more here than in a city lived in year-round. Families who entertain through the season want formal service that can scale up for a few months and stand down gracefully afterward. And because the island's households are among the most prominent anywhere, discretion is not a courtesy but the center of the role.

Demand concentrates accordingly: estate and household managers for large waterfront properties, experienced nannies, discreet housekeepers and housemen, formal service for entertaining, and, increasingly, newborn care for the younger families now settling on the island year-round.

We maintain a presence serving Palm Beach and South Florida, and because we recruit to a specific brief and place professionals anywhere, we can find the right person for the island and for the home up north, whether they live in Florida today or not. This is the care Nannies + more…® is built to provide.

Source: Bloomberg, "Inside the Finance Exodus to Florida," 2025.