Payroll for Nannies Made Simple

Pay The Nanny is focused on nannies at the moment but our services really extend to anyone who needs help with managing tax and payroll for a nanny or au pair.

Whilst our marketing and brand is focused on nannies and au pairs, our service lends itself well to any type of domestic worker. This includes elderley care and disability type workers, when a household is employing them directly.

We also have a team of payroll experts on hand and process the payroll for a handful of small businesses. If you are keen to understand how we might be able to help, just get in touch.

Pay The Nanny is a New Zealand owned and operated payroll service.

Our team includes certified CAs, financial and taxation specialists who help households make it simple to hire and manage nannies and au pairs.

Our goal is to make it simple, easy and hassle free for households to be able to hire nannies and au pairs.

No, we don't become the employer. When you hire a nanny or au pair then you will become the employer of that Nanny and responsible for paying all the necessary employee entitlements.

With Pay The Nanny, we make it super simple with the IRD. You'll still need an employment contract and will be fully responsible for the work they undertake. However, we assume the responsibilities for paying your nanny and applicable parties like the IRD.

For the purposes of the IRD, all employer returns are filed through Pay The Nanny (rather than you directly as the employer). This means we will assume the obligations of making sure that employers have calculated and paid the correct amount of taxes.

Therefore, you don't actually need to register as an employer via the IRD, as we take care of it all.

Households who employ a nanny or au pair will be required to pay for the employer contributions (work levy) of their employees.

This covers the employee for any work related accidents that occur.

With each nanny's pay, Pay the Nanny will charge an ACC amount of 1.5%. This amount includes our ACC processing fee and once you receive your ACC invoice, we'll pay this directly on your behalf.

Because you are paying ACC with each payroll, it means that you won't receive a surprise when you receive your invoice each year!

We've developed our own custom platform that's cutting edge and best in class.

Previously, we've solely used third-party software but we have developed a custom platform that better meets the needs of our customers. It's been built with the domestic employee in mind and integrates with other key software.

For a demo/preview on the system and some general guidance - view 'Using the system as Employer or Nanny'.

All nannies are paid in arrears on the Friday in line with their payment cycle. Our normal working week runs from Monday to Sunday.

We have different pay cycles, either weekly, fortnightly or monthly and these are dependent on the preference of each customer.

All nannies are paid in the same cycle. For example, all fortnightly cycle nannies are paid at the same time, to ensure we can streamline our processes and so no pays get missed!

Monthly pays are paid on the second working Friday of each month (for the time worked in the calendar month prior).