Nanny - Anonymous employee Jovie Employee Review

4.0
Nov 30, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It was great how flexible the hours can be each week. Being employed by the company versus the family meant I was always paid on time and in full. It was great that there was some accountability and if a family ended I was able to jump right back to on-call to get full-time work

Cons

If I wanted full-time work I needed to be willing to travel anywhere in the Bay Area including a 2.5 hour commute to the South Bay and San Francisco. There were slow weeks and sometimes on-call work would be around 20 hours.

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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
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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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