In Switzerland, hundreds of thousands of households get help at home, and far too much of that work happens off the books: no insurance, no pension, no proof of income, and for the household, no cover if anything goes wrong. Helpore is built to fix both sides of that handshake, for the whole of Switzerland.
The model is simple to say and hard to copy. The Helper is fully declared, keeps their full self-set wage, and gets paid holiday and insurance on every hour. The household finds and chooses their Helper, hires them directly the proper Swiss way, and Helpore runs all the payroll and paperwork on its behalf. One transparent receipt, a booking in minutes, and nobody has to compromise for the other side to win.
"Your Helper keeps every franc of their wage. You see every franc of the price. That is the entire trick."
— The Helpore model in two sentences
One story in three acts: try, love, keep
Most platforms assign you a helper and hope for the best. Helpore turns the relationship itself into the product.
- Try them. Browse real Helper profiles: photo, languages, experience, services, rate. Pick the person you like and book a single afternoon. Fully insured, fully declared, no commitment. If they do not confirm within 2 hours, your card is never charged.
- Love working with them? Make it weekly. Keep the same Helper every week with a recurring booking. Same person, same transparent receipt, zero admin. They stay fully declared and insured on every visit, and their calendar gives you priority.
- Keep them, your way. When you know you want your Helper long term, Helpore Admin makes the permanent arrangement a few signatures instead of a bureaucracy project, and Helpore keeps running the payroll and paperwork on your behalf. Working with your Helper long term is the point of the model, not a loophole in it. And if you already have someone helping at home, you can start here directly: Helpore Admin runs the payroll for the person you already have.
For Helpers: your wage is your wage. And that is only the beginning.
Whether you clean, cook, care for children or older adults, run errands, organise homes or keep someone company today, here is what changes when you join Helpore: you set your own hourly rate, CHF 26 or more, and you keep your full brutto wage, always. You choose your services, your area and your hours once, and households book you. No bidding, no chasing, no fees to join, ever. And you stay free to decline any individual job, with no penalty.
One steady household, plus a flexible week. You never have to choose.
Here is the part no agency and no cash arrangement can offer at the same time. When a household loves working with you and goes regular through Helpore Admin, that becomes your steady anchor: the same home, the same day, every week, income you can plan around. And the rest of your week stays completely yours: you keep taking flexible bookings from other households on Helpore whenever you want them. Security from your regular, freedom from the rest. Both at once, always.
Because every household hires you the proper Swiss way, with Helpore running the payroll and paperwork behind the scenes, every hour you work quietly builds more than the hour itself:
- Full brutto wage. You set the rate, from CHF 26 per hour. Every franc of it is yours, on a punctual Swiss payslip.
- Paid holidays. 8.33% holiday pay accrues on every single hour and is there for you when you take time off.
- Fully declared, always. Every hour is declared and registered: AHV from the first franc, official filings done, nothing off the books.
- Covered if life happens. Accident and social insurance on every single hour, so one bad fall never becomes a financial disaster.
Declared work is not just money. It means AHV years, proof of income for your apartment and your permit, and insurance if you fall. Your work already deserves that.
From the EU or EFTA? No permit needed. Come work in Switzerland.
If you are an EU or EFTA citizen, you can work in Switzerland up to 90 days per calendar year with no work permit at all. The law asks only for a short official notification, and Helpore files it for you. So the offer is simple: come work in Switzerland fully declared, insured and on a real Swiss payslip, and we handle the paperwork. Two honest limits so you can plan: the rule caps at 90 worked days per year, and the notification needs a few days of lead time before your first booking.
The first 100 founding Helpers also get the founding badge, permanent profile placement, a free professional photo and bio, and CHF 35 for every friend they refer who completes 30 booked hours.
What your hours are really worth with Helpore
Move the sliders. This calculator compares like with like: your declared yearly pay with Helpore, at the rate you set yourself, against a typical agency arrangement where the agency sets a fixed rate. Paid holiday and social insurance sit on both sides, because every declared employer owes them. The difference you see comes from one thing: with Helpore, the rate is yours.
The earnings calculator
What your hours are really worth with Helpore
Move the sliders. This compares like with like: your declared yearly pay with Helpore, at the rate you set yourself, against a typical agency arrangement where the agency sets a fixed rate. Paid holiday and social insurance sit on both sides, because every declared employer owes them. The difference you see comes from one thing: with Helpore, the rate is yours.
Your declared pay with Helpore
(the rate you set yourself, gross)
A fair comparison, on purpose. Paid holiday, AHV and accident cover are owed by every declared employer, so they are included on both sides here and never counted as a Helpore bonus. The difference below comes from exactly one thing: the rate you set yourself instead of a rate an agency sets for you.
The bigger win is being declared at all. Compared with undeclared cash work, every Helpore hour adds 8.33% paid holiday on top of your rate and comes with accident insurance and AHV years. Cash gives you none of that, and no proof of income when you need an apartment or a permit.
Compared with a typical agency arrangement
Typical agency setup: the agency sets the rate and you take it or leave it. Holiday and social insurance are included there too, declared work always has them.
more declared pay per year with Helpore
every franc of it from setting your own rate; your 8.33% paid holiday, about CHF 2'252 a year here, comes on top as in any declared job
Honest small print: this compares declared gross pay with declared gross pay, never gross with net. Standard employee deductions apply equally on both sides, as in any declared job. Paid holiday and social insurance are part of both setups by law and are therefore not counted in the difference. The agency figure is an illustrative, adjustable estimate of a fixed agency rate, based on published market comparisons, not a statement about any specific company; if an agency offers you more than the rate you would set, the difference shrinks or flips, and the calculator shows that too. Exact payslip amounts depend on canton, age and insurer.
Create your free Helper profileHelpore, a typical agency, and cash work
What each setup gives the person doing the work:
| For the Helper | Helpore | Typical agency | Cash, undeclared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who sets your hourly rate | You do, CHF 26+ | The agency | Negotiated, no floor |
| You keep your full brutto wage | Yes, always | No, margin inside | Yes, but nothing on top |
| Who is your employer | The household, paperwork run by Helpore | The agency | No one, that is the risk |
| Paid holiday top up | Yes, 8.33%, ledgered | Often folded in | No |
| Keep your households long term | Yes, built into the model | Rotation happens | Yes |
| Accident insurance | Yes | Yes | No |
| AHV years and proof of income | Yes, from franc one | Yes | No |
| Choose hours, area, and decline jobs | Yes, fully | Schedule assigned | Yes |
| Cost to join | Free, forever | Free | Free |
The agency column reflects common published market practice and varies by provider; the cash column reflects undeclared arrangements, which also expose the household to retroactive contributions.
For households: one receipt. Nothing hidden. Ever.
Here is the household side of the same fairness, and the honest legal shape of it. When you hire a Helper, you are their employer, the normal Swiss way for household work, and Helpore does every bit of the employer paperwork for you: payroll, AHV and social insurance registrations, accident insurance, source tax and the official filings, all under a one time Vollmacht you sign when you hire them, never before browsing or getting a quote. And a quote is never a mystery price. You get an open receipt: the Helper's full wage, the 8.33% paid holiday on top, every employer contribution, and Helpore's fee shown as two per hour lines, the Helpore fee and the card handling fee. Because you are the employer, there is no VAT on the wage, only on Helpore's fee, which makes the same declared hour cheaper than an agency can sell it. If a franc moves, you see where it goes.
One hour, opened up
Example: a casual booking at a CHF 26 wage, per hour, rounded. Both the Helpore fee and the card handling fee are charged per hour. Employer contributions vary by canton, roughly 8 to 13% of the wage. There is no VAT on the wage because you are the employer. A regular Helper through Helpore Admin comes to about CHF 32 to 33 per hour all in. Your quote shows your exact live numbers.
Compare that with the market you know: someone assigned to you whom you never chose, an agency invoice with VAT on every franc of it, and no way to know what the person in your home actually earns. With Helpore you pick the Helper from real profiles, they stay your person every visit, and Helpore runs the employment for you: contract, insurance, AHV, source tax, payroll, filings. Being an employer becomes painless. You just book.
And the promise that no one else can make: if you love working with your Helper, keeping them is your choice. Helpore Admin turns that into a few signatures, with the payroll still run for you. Helpore is the only platform that helps you build a lasting arrangement on your own terms, which is exactly why you can trust it.
Already have your own Helper? Bring them to Helpore.
Helpore Admin is not only for Helpers you found on the platform. If someone already helps in your home, you can use Helpore Admin as pure payroll administration for the person you already have: fully declare them and run proper Swiss payroll, contract, insurance, AHV, payslips and year end statements all handled, no matching needed. Off the books becomes on the books in a few signatures, and they finally get the declared work their hours deserve.
Try them. Keep them. Save.
One casual booking is all it takes to start. From there, every step you take toward keeping your Helper makes the arrangement warmer and the numbers kinder.
- Step 1 · Try. Browse real profiles and choose the Helper you actually want in your home. Book them for a single casual Flex visit, fully insured and fully declared, with the complete transparent receipt in front of you before you pay. No subscription, no commitment, no risk.
- Step 2 · Keep. The same trusted person every week, in your home, chosen by you. Keep booking them on recurring Flex and stay completely hands off, Helpore keeps running all the payroll and paperwork on your behalf. Or take the next step and move to Helpore Admin, the membership for a permanent arrangement, where the same paperwork keeps being done for you at a flat yearly price.
- Step 3 · Save — up to 50% credited back. Make it permanent through Helpore Admin and the Flex fees you already spent getting to know them come back as a credit of up to 50% of your annual membership. Trying them was never wasted money. It was the down payment on keeping them.
The honest version, in one line: a casual trial that grows into a lasting, money smart arrangement, with the same person you chose on day one. And if someone already helps in your home, you can skip the trying and start at the keeping: Helpore Admin runs proper Swiss payroll for the Helper you bring yourself.
Built for Switzerland, made for all of Switzerland
Helpore is Swiss by design, not by translation. The employment paperwork, the insurance, the payroll and the payslips are built on Swiss rules, and the platform speaks the languages Switzerland actually speaks: many Helpers work in English as well as German, Portuguese, Spanish, French or Italian. For international households, that means booking home help without first learning Swiss payroll law. For Helpers, it means real Swiss employment for the work they already do.
And it is available nationwide, on purpose. Helpers already live and work across 13 cantons, from Zürich and Geneva to Basel, Lausanne and Zug, and every one of them can be booked where they work. Payroll for a Helper you bring yourself and the Helpore Admin service work everywhere in Switzerland, no local coverage needed. Where you see Helpers to book near you depends simply on who covers your area, and the Helper community is growing in every region.
Frequently asked questions
How does Helpore work?
Helpore is a Swiss platform for declared home help, available across Switzerland. Households browse real Helper profiles, choose the person they want and book online. The household hires the Helper directly, the proper Swiss way for household work, and Helpore runs all the employer paperwork on its behalf: payroll, AHV and insurance registrations, source tax and official filings, under a one time Vollmacht signed at hiring. The Helper keeps their full advertised wage, fully declared, with 8.33% paid holiday plus accident and social insurance. The household sees every franc on one transparent receipt.
How much does a Helper earn with Helpore?
Helpers set their own hourly rate, CHF 26 per hour or more, and keep the full brutto wage. On top, 8.33% paid holiday accrues on every hour, and every hour is fully declared with AHV and accident insurance. At CHF 26 per hour that is about CHF 28.17 per hour including holiday pay, before standard employee deductions. Try the calculator above with your own numbers.
What can a Helper do besides cleaning?
Helpers offer a range of home help, not just cleaning. Depending on the person, that can include senior help and companionship, childcare, errands, cooking and home organisation, as well as cleaning. You choose the Helper whose services and experience match what your home needs.
Does it cost anything to join as a Helper?
No. Joining is free and stays free. There are no membership fees, no bidding and no charges to receive bookings, ever.
Can I choose my own hours and area as a Helper?
Yes. You set your services, your working area, your availability and your rate once, and households book you automatically. You are free to decline any individual job, with no penalty.
Is the work really declared and insured?
Yes. Every Helpore hour is declared Swiss employment with the household, administered by Helpore: AHV contributions from the first franc, accident insurance, paid holiday and a clean payslip. Declared work means AHV years, proof of income for your apartment or permit, and protection if anything happens.
What does "try, then keep" mean for households?
You start with a single casual booking to try a Helper. If it is a great fit, you set up a recurring weekly booking with the same person, or later move to Helpore Admin, the membership for a permanent arrangement. Either way you are the Helper's employer, the normal Swiss way for household work, and Helpore keeps running all the payroll and paperwork for you. When you switch to Helpore Admin, the Flex fees you already spent with them come back as a credit of up to 50% of the annual membership. Working with your Helper directly is part of the model, not a loophole, and the choice is available anytime through Helpore Admin.
Can I keep a regular household and still take other bookings as a Helper?
Yes, and that is the point. A regular household through Helpore Admin becomes your steady weekly anchor, and the rest of your week stays open for flexible bookings from other households on Helpore. Security and flexibility at the same time, you never have to choose.
I am an EU or EFTA citizen without a Swiss permit. Can I work as a Helper?
Yes. EU and EFTA citizens may work in Switzerland up to 90 days per calendar year with no work permit. Only a short official notification is required, and Helpore files it for you. You work fully declared and insured on a Swiss payslip. The rule caps at 90 worked days per year, and the notification needs a few days of lead time before your first booking.
Can I use Helpore Admin for someone who already helps in my home?
Yes. Helpore Admin also works as pure payroll administration. If someone already helps in your home, you can fully declare them and run proper Swiss payroll through Helpore Admin, contract, insurance, AHV, payslips and year end statements all handled, with no matching needed. You bring your own Helper. And if you switch with a Helper you found on Helpore, your past Flex fees with them come back as a credit of up to 50% of the annual membership.
Where is Helpore available?
Helpore is available across the whole of Switzerland. Helpers already live and work across 13 cantons, and you can browse and book wherever a Helper covers your area, from Zürich and Geneva to Basel, Lausanne and Zug. Helpore Admin, including payroll for a Helper you bring yourself, works nationwide with no local coverage needed. Many Helpers speak English as well as German, Portuguese, Spanish, French or Italian.
Two sides, one fair deal
Helpers: your rate, your hours, your area, and fully declared Swiss employment on top. Households: your choice of Helper, every franc on the receipt, and all the employer paperwork done for you.
Helpore Editorial. Helpore is declared home help, made in Switzerland, for all of Switzerland.