Travis Soukup is the founder of Kindred (kindredhire.com), the free marketplace connecting families directly with verified, professional nannies. He started Kindred after his own family paid a nanny agency a five-figure placement fee, then realized the agency kept roughly a third of his nanny's ongoing pay too. He can speak on: - Real nanny pay by US metro and experience tier (Kindred publishes the free public Pay Index at kindredhire.com/nanny-pay-index, with continuously updated data across 100+ US cities) - Household-employment economics, agency fee structures, and the hidden costs families absorb when hiring through staffing services - Nanny tax classification (W-2 vs 1099), payroll obligations, and the compliance burden on household employers - Two-sided marketplace dynamics in t...