The Job That Sees It: The Estate Manager
The estate manager runs a private household as a business — payroll, vendors, budgets, staff. The federal statistics don’t count the job, and the law that governs it stops at the front door.
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Estate Managers: Running Large Homes Like Businesses
Past a certain size, a house stops being a household and becomes a small business — with payroll, vendors, and a full-time executive running it.
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Chefs, Nannies, and Household Help: The Labor Behind Affluent Life
About 2.2 million people work in private homes in the US. At the top, household help is a six-figure profession; at the bottom, a workforce the FLSA only partially covers.
