The ultrawealthy are hiring former special-ops soldiers as ‘nannies’ for their kids, paying as much as $200,000 a year – By Dominic-Madori Davis (Business Insider) / Jan 3 2020
- The Times reported on Thursday some of the ultrarich living in London are now hiring ex-military personnel to act as nannies for their kids.
- This latest hiring trend follows the rising crime rate in some of the most exclusive neighborhoods in England’s capital.
- It’s just the latest example of how the role of an elite nanny to the rich has evolved.
Being a “supernanny” for the superrich has always been supertaxing.
Business Insider’s Taylor Nicole Rogers previously reported that many nannies for the rich and powerful find their jobs as demanding as they are daunting, with one nanny telling Rogers that she had to “manually clear out a toddler’s bowels,” and another saying she had to clean out a rat’s nest for the family employing her.
And though the benefits and work perks have been noted — elite nannies can make nearly $150,000 a year — it often comes at the expense of the nannies’ personal lives, with late working nights and extensive travel requirements resulting in a lack of time with their own families. The role of a nanny is as complicated as ever. In addition to watching the kids, many are expected to be housekeepers, personal chefs, and now even bodyguards.
Les Militaires meets La Maison
The Times reported on Thursday that some families in London are hiring ex-military personnel to act as nannies for their children. This is to combat the rising crime rates in London, as well as the threat of child abduction for ransom. The more experienced “close protection guards” among this group are paid as much as £150,000 a year ($196,000), according to what Sam Martin — the cofounder of 19 London, an international staffing agency that finds staff for ultrawealthy clients’ homes, offices, yachts, and private aircraft — told The Times.
“People wanting this sort of protection come from places where the criminal model includes kidnapping and ransom, and in the 1990s in Russia, this was the way they operated,” Sergei Migdal, a former security expert and head bodyguard for a Russian oligarch, told The Times.
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