household staff
Home's hired help
Household staff are the employees who work in a private residence—housekeepers, cooks, nannies, gardeners, drivers, and the like.
The term suggests a formal arrangement with multiple workers, associated with wealthy households: The estate employed a household staff of twelve.
A single cleaner who comes weekly wouldn't typically be called staff.
- butlerChief domestic servant
- valetPersonal servant or parker
- footmanUniformed domestic male attendant
- maidHousehold cleaning worker
- nannyHired child caretaker
laundress · personal chef · chauffeur · gardener · manservant · au pair · groundskeeper · cook · nursemaid · scullion · scullery maid · security guard · domestics · hired help · live-in help · lady's maid · majordomo · house manager
- home lifehome, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, living room
- household staffmaid, butler, cook, nanny, servant
- servantsbutler, maid, servant, servants, domestics
- domestic employmentmaids, nannies, housekeepers, butlers, cooks
- domestic laborhousekeepers, maids, nannies, butlers, caregivers
- servant quartersservants, servant, below stairs, downstairs, servants hall
household staffemployers
Those who hire staff
homeowners · master of the house · lady of the house · masters · lord of the manor
household stafffamily members
Related persons collectively
family · relatives · kin · immediate family · blood relations
household staffcorporate employees
Business organization's hired workers