Hire an Au Pair in the USA
Create a family profile, explain your childcare needs, and compare au pair candidates for cultural exchange and flexible home support.
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Explain family routines and expectations
Shortlist candidates by country and availability
Keep childcare, language, and cultural goals together
Candidate matching
Browse candidate profiles before posting
Contact matches once your profile is ready
Use one account from search to messaging
Start as a founding family
Au Pair Bureau is still growing its babysitter, nanny, au pair, tutoring, pet care, house sitting, and elderly care marketplace. Create a hiring profile now so candidates can understand what help you need as supply grows.
Show candidates the role, dates, location, and household support you need before you start messaging.
Use one family account across babysitting, nanny, au pair, tutoring, pet sitting, house sitting, and elderly care searches.
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A safer way to start conversations
Keep introductions, profile checks, verification status, messaging, and shortlists inside one platform instead of scattered messages.
Review profile details, photos, verification status, and availability before contacting a candidate.
Use platform messaging and shortlists to compare candidates with your family.
Report concerns and use safety guidance before moving to interviews or agreements.
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the USA
Country hiring focus: host families
Use this country context before shortlisting candidates or publishing your hiring profile.
USA searches vary heavily by state and city, so families and candidates should be specific about location, driving, live-in arrangements, schedule, travel distance, and matching expectations.
To find an au pair for a J-1 placement in the USA, start with a U.S. Department of State-designated BridgeUSA sponsor. The sponsor—not a marketplace—screens and selects host families and au pairs, manages the programme application, connects approved participants, and monitors the placement.
Contact designated sponsors first and compare their current eligibility checks, itemised fees, matching model, local coverage, insurance information, emergency support, rematch terms, and refund policy.
Complete the sponsor’s host-family screening before treating a match as a placement. An Au Pair Bureau profile can clarify your location, children, schedule, room, driving needs, and dates, but it does not replace sponsor approval or the J-1 process.
Before agreeing a match, confirm the official rules for the private room, stipend, education support, paid holiday, time off, childcare limits, infant or special-needs experience, and the written host-family agreement.
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Common questions
No. The BridgeUSA au pair route is administered by State Department-designated sponsors. Au Pair Bureau can help a family describe its needs and explore candidate interest, but it is not a designated sponsor and cannot replace sponsor screening, placement, or visa steps.
Compare the sponsor’s current total fees, matching process, geographic coverage, local coordinator support, insurance information, emergency response, rematch process, refund terms, and what is included before paying or committing.
Expect sponsor screening and prepare an accurate family profile, a suitable private room, childcare schedule and duties, driving expectations, dates, stipend and education budget, and a plan that follows the current BridgeUSA limits and host-family agreement.