US woman claims she earns ₹ 1.6 Lakh per day by nannying billionaires‘ children. Gloria Richards, 34, nannies for the children of the ultra-rich around the world when she is not acting on off-Broadway stages.
Ms. Richards discussed the benefits and drawbacks of her job in an interview with CNBC Make It.
She discussed her lucrative job as a nanny for the billionaire’s children, which pays her $2,000 (Rs 1.6 lakh) per day. What else? She is able to travel the world in private jets with covered accommodations. She claims that caring for the children of billionaires accounts for 80 to 90 percent of her annual income.
Ms. Richards said, “I could nanny for, like, two months at the top of the year, and I’d be fine for the rest of the year,” Richards, 34, tells CNBC Make It. “What feeds me is being able to work so closely with these kids.”
US woman claims she earns ₹ 1.6 Lakh per day by nannying billionaires’ children. She explained her job description by saying that nannying for the ultra-rich isn’t always about childcare.
She stated that she spends the majority of her working hours coordinating the education and social calendars of her children. She recalls being introduced to her charge just minutes before becoming their chaperone on a private jet flight to Barbados.
She is compensated $2,000 for 12 to 15 hours of work. She revealed that she travels the world on private jets and yachts, drives Porsches and Teslas for work, and attends toddler birthday parties where iPads are given out as party favors.
“I’ve had full-blown interviews where [parents] are like, ‘We’re looking for someone to raise our kids,'” she says. “They tell me they had kids to pass on their trust funds, [and that] ‘I’ll hang out with them after boarding school when they can drink.'” One time, parents even registered their child under her last name at an Italian boarding school.
However, she shared that working with the billionaires comes with its own set of challenges, especially for a Black woman nannying white children. She said that she has to navigate cultural situations tactfully- or risk losing her paycheck.
“I’ll be in, like, Switzerland, and they’re telling me they can’t pay me for three weeks because they don’t have cash,” Ms Richards says. “That’s also how they communicate when they don’t like something you did. They’ll stop paying you.”
Balancing her mental well-being with unpredictable client mood swings is taxing, Richards says.
“I’ve had families go through an immense amount of grief in the public eye. I’m watching their divorces or deaths within the family,” she says. “Sometimes I’m literally a shoulder to cry on. A second later, they’ll turn on me.”
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