Household staff for families in Luxembourg, selected in Spain
Luxembourg City and Kirchberg
Live-in housekeepers, Spanish-speaking nannies and domestic couples for families in Belair, Limpertsberg and Kirchberg, and in the communes around the capital. The highest minimum wage in the EU, a clear ADEM procedure for non-EU staff and a large Portuguese and Spanish community make Luxembourg a natural destination for staff selected in Spain.
- Placement agency licensed by the SNE, no. 1300000318
- 4.8 · 79 Google reviews
- One-off fee · 6-month guarantee
Why families in Luxembourg look to a Spanish agency for household staff
Luxembourg pays the highest minimum wage in the European Union and packs a great many two-high-income households into a very small country: EU institutions in Kirchberg, banks and funds in the city centre, and the executives of the companies headquartered there. What it lacks is a pool of live-in staff. Households rely on hourly help, and the family that wants a housekeeper living in the house six days a week, or a nanny who speaks Spanish to the children, finds very few candidates locally.
The families who contact us from Luxembourg are officials and bankers who lived in Madrid or Brussels, Spanish and Portuguese families posted there, and international couples who want the children to keep a language. Luxembourg's Portuguese community is the largest in the country, which makes a Portuguese or Spanish-speaking housekeeper feel at home immediately, and the country's three languages mean nobody expects Luxembourgish from staff.
We are honest about our track record: Luxembourg is where we have opened searches without yet closing one, usually because the family's timing changed. The rules, however, are among the clearest in Europe: free movement for EU candidates, an explicit ADEM procedure for non-EU staff, a published minimum wage indexed to the cost of living, and an employer registration with the CCSS that takes a few days.
Luxembourg City and Kirchberg
A small country where almost every request comes from the capital and the communes within twenty minutes of it.
Luxembourg City
Belair, Limpertsberg, Merl and the villas along the Val Sainte-Croix, where bankers, lawyers and the international business community live in houses with gardens. The request is a live-in housekeeper who cooks and, for families with young children, a nanny who keeps Spanish or English alive at home.
Kirchberg
The plateau of the European institutions, the Court of Justice and the banks, with modern apartments and family houses in Kirchberg and neighbouring Weimershof. Officials and their families ask for a housekeeper for a large apartment and for a nanny who follows the family's calendar of travel and school holidays.
The surrounding communes
Strassen, Bertrange, Niederanven and Walferdange, and further out the houses of the Moselle and the Ardennes. Larger properties with grounds where a domestic couple living in a separate flat keeps the house, the garden and the cars is the usual arrangement.
The profiles families in Luxembourg ask us for
Housekeepers and nannies in the capital, a couple for houses with grounds outside it.
Live-in housekeeper
Runs a Belair or Kirchberg home, laundry and cooking; French or English for the household, Portuguese or Spanish welcome everywhere.
Spanish-speaking nanny
For families of the institutions and the banks with children in the European and international schools; first aid and a language kept alive at home.
Domestic couple
For houses with grounds in the communes around the capital: housekeeper and houseman-driver living in a separate flat.
House manager
For families with homes in Luxembourg, Brussels and Spain who need staff, suppliers and travel coordinated from one place.
Permits and rules for household staff in Luxembourg
Luxembourg applies EU free movement and runs one of the most explicit procedures in Europe for hiring a non-EU worker, through the employment agency ADEM. The family is the employer and registers with the CCSS.
EU/EEA/Swiss candidates: no permit, declaration of arrival
A Spanish, Portuguese or other EU candidate starts work with her passport. She declares her arrival at the commune within eight days and, for a stay over three months, applies for the registration certificate with the employment contract. No quota, no labour-market test.
Non-EU candidates: the ADEM procedure and the authorisation to stay
Before recruiting a third-country national, the employer must declare the vacant post to ADEM, which checks whether a suitable candidate is available on the local or EU market. If none is presented within three weeks, the employer asks ADEM's director for a certificate granting the right to hire a third-country national. The employer then signs a dated employment contract, which may start subject to the permit, and hands the original certificate to the candidate. She attaches it to her application for a temporary authorisation to stay for salaried workers, then obtains a visa D and, on arrival, the residence permit. A Filipino candidate resident in Spain follows exactly this route.
Employer registration and minimum wage
The family registers as employer with the Centre commun de la sécurité sociale (CCSS) and declares the employee's entry; household employment is regular employment with health, pension and accident insurance. The social minimum wage (salaire social minimum) for an unqualified full-time employee is the floor, around €2,771 gross per month after the June 2026 indexation, to be confirmed on guichet.lu at the time of hiring; the contract states board, lodging, hours and rest days.
Who employs, and under which law
The employer is the family, in the country where the home is. We are a placement agency: we select and present, we are neither the employer nor a temp agency, so the Posting of Workers Directive (written for companies) does not apply. The contract is governed by the law of the place where the work is habitually done, even if the parties choose another (Rome I Regulation, art. 8).
Social security: the destination country's
The general rule of Regulation (EC) 883/2004 (art. 11(3)(a)) is to contribute where you work. The exception is a temporary posting (art. 12): a family resident in Spain that takes an employee already hired here may keep her in the Spanish system for up to 24 months with the A1 certificate issued by the TGSS, if the conditions are met. Otherwise the registration is done in the destination country.
Data protection when sending profiles
Profiles travel with the candidate's informed consent. Within the EEA there is no international transfer; to Switzerland, the UK and Andorra there is, covered by a European Commission adequacy decision (GDPR arts. 44-45). Monaco has no adequacy decision: we rely on appropriate safeguards or the explicit consent of art. 49.
Checked on 12 September 2026 against guichet.public.lu (conditions of residence for third-country salaried workers, declaration of a vacant post to ADEM), EUR-Lex and the European Commission adequacy list; the social minimum wage figure is from the June 2026 indexation notices and should be confirmed on guichet.lu.
What you need to know before starting, not legal advice: each case is confirmed by the family with its adviser or the country's authorities. We keep these notes reviewed and tell you what we have checked and where.
Languages, currency and cost of living
Luxembourgish, French and German; English in the institutions; Portuguese widely spoken
Nobody expects Luxembourgish from household staff; French or English for the house, Spanish or Portuguese with the children.
Euro (EUR)
No exchange risk on the salary or on our fee.
High, especially housing; salaries are indexed to compensate
Live-in accommodation in Belair or Kirchberg is a large part of the package and is stated in the contract.
CCSS, registered by the family; health, pension and accident insurance
Luxembourg's system is generous and the employer's contributions are moderate compared with neighbouring countries.
Around €2,771 gross per month minimum, unqualified full-time (SSM, June 2026, to be confirmed)
Social minimum wage after the June 2026 indexation per the published notices; confirm on guichet.lu. The families we serve pay experienced live-in staff above it; the market range is agreed case by case and we give it to you with the quote.
Figure pending confirmation from an official sourceSalaire social minimum, indexed automatically to the cost of living; the qualified rate is 20% higher. Verify the current amount on guichet.lu before hiring.
A Luxembourg placement, step by step
For EU candidates Luxembourg is a free move with a generous system; for a non-EU candidate the ADEM procedure is explicit and we run it with the family.
Brief and status check
We confirm the candidate's nationality and, for a non-EU candidate, whether the family is ready to declare the post to ADEM first; then we define live-in hours, rest days and the languages of the house.
Selection in Spain
Interviews in Madrid or by video, references called, and a frank talk about a small country, a long winter and a household that travels with the institutions' calendar.
Video interviews and trial
From your client portal; Luxembourg families often meet the finalist on a trip to Madrid or Brussels, or bring her to the house for two days.
Contract, CCSS and move
Written contract at or above the social minimum wage with board and lodging stated, CCSS registration by the family, declaration of arrival at the commune, ADEM certificate and authorisation to stay where needed, and a start date around the notice period in Spain.
One-off fee and a 6-month guarantee, outside Spain too
You pay nothing during the search. Only once you take the person on and you're happy do you pay a single fee: the equivalent of one month of the agreed salary, plus VAT where applicable depending on where the job is. No subscriptions or lock-in.
One-off fee: one month's salary (+ VAT where applicable)
A single payment, only once you take the person on. We confirm the exact amount upfront, in euros or in your country's currency.
6-month guarantee
Replacement at no cost if the person isn't the right fit, and a 50% refund of the fee if you're not satisfied during the first month.
Relocation and trial
The family covers the relocation trip; before that you can interview by video and, if you travel to Spain or the candidate to your city, run a two-day trial.
Hiring household staff in Luxembourg from Spain
No. EU citizens work in Luxembourg without a permit. She declares her arrival at the commune within eight days and, for a stay over three months, applies for the registration certificate with the employment contract.
Yes, through the ADEM procedure: the family declares the vacant post, and if no suitable local or EU candidate is presented within three weeks, requests the certificate that allows hiring a third-country national; she then applies for the authorisation to stay and a visa D. Her Spanish permit does not transfer.
The social minimum wage, around €2,771 gross per month for an unqualified full-time employee after the June 2026 indexation, to be confirmed on guichet.lu; the qualified rate is 20% higher. It is the highest in the EU and it is indexed to the cost of living.
Yes. The family registers as employer with the CCSS and declares the employee's entry before the first day; household employment is regular employment with health, pension and accident insurance.
Yes, it is the request we receive most from Kirchberg: officials and bankers who want Spanish or Portuguese kept alive at home while school happens in French, German or English. We present nannies with first aid and references we have called.
NanniesFor an EU candidate, first profiles in days and a start date usually four to six weeks after your decision. For a non-EU candidate add the three-week ADEM period, the authorisation to stay and the visa, which together can take several months.
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