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Advice worth keeping.
What we tell clients across the table, written down: hiring, compensation, retention, and how great households actually run. Bylined and opinionated — never filler.
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The Private Service Salary & Hiring Report
The category's missing dataset: what household and family office roles actually pay, drawn from real searches. The first annual edition is in preparation.
Hiring Advice
The cost of a bad household hire
The wrong hire costs multiples of any search fee — disruption, turnover contagion, security exposure. Why retention, not speed, is the number that matters.
The Calendar Group · July 8, 2026
Compensation
Household payroll basics: what principals most often miss
Paying household staff legally is not optional. The employer obligations principals most often miss — payroll, workers' comp, overtime — in plain terms.
The Calendar Group · June 30, 2026
Hiring Advice
Personal assistant vs. chief of staff: which one your life actually requires
Title inflation has blurred the line between personal assistant and private chief of staff. What separates the two roles, and how to know which you need.
The Calendar Group · June 18, 2026
Hiring Advice
How to interview a private chef
Tastings are theater. The judgment is in the questions — how to interview a private chef like an advisor, and what a trial week should actually test.
The Calendar Group · June 9, 2026
Hiring Advice
The school-year nanny search: a timeline that actually works
The September nanny search really begins in spring. A month-by-month timeline for school-year starts, and why rushed August hires fail.
The Calendar Group · May 28, 2026
Household Management
When to hire an estate manager
Most families hire an estate manager two years too late. The signs you've outgrown ad-hoc household management, and what the role actually changes.
The Calendar Group · May 20, 2026
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