Not the best - Anonymous employee Jovie Employee Review

2.0
May 19, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The "company" makes an attempt to find you nanny jobs when you aren't working.

Cons

They are not organized. The rep in my area had no idea what she was doing, I always had to talk to someone higher up in Minnesota, i'm in CA. When yu sign up with them you can only worl for them and only them, they have all kind of rules that are so unnecessary, such as, everything has to be ran through them, if they find out the family you nanny for asks you to nanny as a date night or some time out of your regular hours you can be fined if they dont approve. if you are referred to someone else by previous family and dont go through them you also can be fined. Their payroll system is always off and never on time. Also you can't nanny on the side because you also can be fined. They want you to themselves. Oh! When they do find you a job they profit from your pay and you only make $15/ hr full time, even if you were supposed to get paid more. It might be okay for some but not for me where i make $20/ hr or more without an agency!

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5.0
Jun 18, 2026
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Pros

I've worked with Jovie Newport Beach since 2022. I started as an on-call nanny and worked my way up into administration. I am now in charge of recruitment, event coordination, and general management. I love the company culture and encourage families to use our services and for potential nannies to apply! I have met many great people through the Jovie network! It has been great!

Cons

I can't think of any cons!

2.0
Jul 1, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Help find you a family to work with. I could see how this could perhaps be great for part time

Cons

LOW PAY for the job. After 3 years with Jovie, I was getting paid $16/hr and my full-time family was paying somewhere from $26-28/hr. They told my nanny family I was getting higher raises than I was. MUCH fairer companies out there. No PTO due to "not being salaried employees" even though that's not how PTO works! Constantly nagged about logging in my hours even though I was always on top of it. Going through them was a pain. Don't recommend. Always wondered if why they rebranded from College Nannies and Sitters was to try to separate from all the negative reviews.

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