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A nanny is the same person on the same days each week, and here they list themselves, so you employ them directly with no agency fee.

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A nanny walking a child to school along a leafy footpath, the child in a school hat and backpack.

A nanny, or a babysitter?

The line is regularity, not hours.

Where the line falls

Twenty hours in one week does not make somebody a nanny, and six hours a week for a year does. The test is whether the arrangement stands: the odd Saturday night is babysitting, and the same afternoons every week with a say in how the day runs is nanny work.

It is why nobody here picks a job title. When someone lists, they say whether they want casual nights and weekends, the same days each week, or both.

Where the line falls in NSW

The Check is yours to sight

A privately arranged babysitter in your own home does not need a Working With Children Check. A nanny, au pair or tutor does, and you are the one expected to verify it.

Verifying a Check is free and takes about two minutes on the register that issued it. In NSW, verifying in your own name also means the Office of the Children's Guardian tells you if their status changes.

What the badge checks

What a nanny costs

The hourly rate is one number. What sits on top of it is the rest of the cost.

What nannies here are asking

What nannies are asking$16–$65 an houracross the 131 profiles that state a rate

That is the spread on this site, not a rate card, and nobody is bound by it. Many of the people in it also take casual evenings, so the low end is a casual rate rather than a nanny one. Where a nanny sits in it depends on the number of children, the hours, and what the job asks for beyond supervision.

What a nanny costs in Sydney

What sits on top of the rate

Employ someone for regular hours and you are their employer rather than their customer. Most nanny roles sit at Level 2 of the Miscellaneous Award, where the minimum for a casual on weekday daytime hours has been $33.85 an hour since July 2026.

Super is 12%, owed once they work more than 30 hours a week whatever you pay them, and in NSW you need workers insurance once your estimated annual wages pass $7,500. Work all of it into the number at the point you agree it.

Nannies near you, suburb by suburb

Nannies set how far they will travel, so each page lists the ones whose radius reaches that suburb, closest first.

Summer HillMarrickvilleAshfieldFive DockHaberfieldCroydonBurwoodStrathfieldAnnandaleLeichhardtMissenden RoadWestgate

Somewhere else? The box at the top of the page works from any Australian suburb.

Questions parents ask about nannies

We need a nanny. Where do we start?
Start with the shape, not the search: which days, which hours, and what the job includes beyond being with the children. That decision is what everything else hangs off, because a Tuesday-and-Thursday afternoon role and a five-day full-time one attract different people. Then read the profiles nearest you and message the two or three whose radius and rate fit, or post the job instead. Before anyone starts, sight their Working With Children Check and put the rate, the hours and the notice in writing. How to find and hire a nanny covers each step.
What is the difference between a nanny and a babysitter?
Stop counting hours and ask whether the arrangement is a standing one. Somebody you ask over for the odd Friday evening is babysitting. Somebody who has fixed days, a routine, and responsibility for how the day runs is doing nanny work, whether or not either of you uses the word. The law draws its line in much the same place wherever you are, and it settles one thing: where a Working With Children Check is required it is the nanny arrangement that needs it, and a babysitter you arrange privately for an evening in your own home usually does not. Most people listed here want both kinds of work, so what you are choosing is a shape, not a person. Where the line falls in NSW.
How much does a nanny cost?
Nannies listed here ask between $16 and $65 an hour, across the 131 profiles that state one. Across Sydney more broadly, most nannies ask between $30 and $45 an hour. That is the rate on a profile rather than a quote for a standing arrangement, and what regular hours settle at is between you and them. Employ someone for regular hours and tax, super and insurance sit on top of the number you agree, so work them in before you name it. What a nanny costs in Sydney.
Do I have to check the Working With Children Check myself?
Yes, and it is worth knowing that before you start looking. Every Check scheme was built around organisations: an employer or an agency registers with the state's screening body and verifies its people through a portal. A household is not an organisation, so for ongoing care the verifying falls to you, and nobody sends a reminder. Most states publish a checker a parent can use directly. In NSW it asks for their WWC number, their family name and their date of birth, entered on the Children's Guardian's own site before day one. No fee, about two minutes. Run it there in your own name and the Office writes to you if their status later changes. How to run the check.
What does the verified badge on a nanny's profile mean?
The badge means we checked their ID and their WWCC ourselves, with the register in the state that issued it, not that they ticked a box. Treat it as a head start rather than a substitute. For ongoing care you still want the Check verified in your own name, and in NSW that is also what puts you on the list the Office writes to. A profile without a badge says so in the same plain words and in the same place a badge would sit. References, first aid certificates and claimed experience are outside what we check. Those are the nanny's own account of themselves, labelled as such, and yours to test. The full list of what we check.
How do I write a nanny ad?
In your own words, and in detail. Write the days and the hours you need covered, the ages of the children, the date you want to start, and what the job asks for beyond supervision: the school run, cooking, driving, a language spoken at home. Put the rate you have in mind in there as well. Nothing in the form marks a job as nanny work rather than babysitting, so words like ongoing and the same days each week have to come from you. Flexible tells a reader nothing. How to find and hire a nanny in Sydney. Nannies in Sydney is where to read a few profiles first.
Do you employ the nanny, or handle pay?
Neither. No agency sits between you, so there is no placement fee and no margin taken out of your hours, and equally there is nobody running a payroll on your behalf. The arrangement is yours to set up and yours to keep straight. We charge no commission and never handle the money, so the number the two of you settle on is the number that reaches them. Why the site is free.
A parent pointing at a day on a weekly planner while a nanny listens, both at the kitchen table with a cup of tea.

Or post what you need

Say the days, the hours, and what the job asks for. Nannies who travel to your suburb see it, and there is no box that marks an ad as a nanny role, so the words have to do it.

How to find and hire a nanny in Sydney
Post what you need

Free, and it takes about two minutes. You arrange everything with them directly.