Lifetime of Love Nannies employs every caregiver as a W-2 employee and runs their payroll and taxes, so families are not the employer of record. A family hiring on its own takes those duties on; the SSA requires withholding once a household worker earns $3,000 in cash wages in 2026.
Agencies that employ their caregivers do, and Lifetime of Love Nannies is one of them. Every caregiver behind its nanny services is a W-2 employee of the agency, which runs payroll and handles the employment taxes. The family books the care and skips the employer role entirely.
Not every agency works this way. The employment question is worth asking any provider directly, because the answer decides who carries the obligations described below.
A W-2 employee has an employer of record who withholds taxes and issues the W-2 each year. A family doing its own hiring usually holds that employer role. IRS Publication 926 lists nannies among household workers whose employment brings tax duties to the hiring household. When an employing agency provides the nanny, the agency holds the employer role and the paperwork that comes with it.
A household employer owes payroll taxes, wage compliance, and the records behind both. Under the Social Security Administration's household worker rules, withholding kicks in once a household worker earns $3,000 or more in cash wages during 2026. Social Security and Medicare taxes come out, and the earnings get reported. The Department of Labor's Fact Sheet 79 covers nannies as domestic service workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act. And IRS Publication 926 walks through the filing side for household employers.
Employment is what lets Lifetime of Love Nannies train and manage its caregivers as a team. Caregivers go through the agency's own training school, with modules spanning safe sleep, swim and heat safety, developmental milestones, parent communication, and emergency response. The agency also supports continuing education in childcare. Performance reviews and ongoing support run through the same employment relationship.
The agency describes itself as an employment-style service. A recurring family gets a designated nanny, and the agency stays involved after the match is made; the Las Vegas guide shows the model in one city's terms. There is no large upfront placement fee and no long-term contract binding the family to the nanny. Founder Carson Wagner has said the agency is incentivized to make care lasting and long term.
Comparing nanny services gets simpler with one question up front. Start with who employs the caregiver, then let Lifetime of Love Nannies show its answer. Families who want the employment question answered in detail can book a family phone call on the scheduling page. The office number is (775) 544-1777.
The nanny tax is the informal name for the household employment taxes the IRS describes in Publication 926. It covers the Social Security, Medicare, and related tax duties that attach to a family employing a household worker directly.
Yes, all of them. At Lifetime of Love Nannies, every caregiver is on the agency's own payroll as a W-2 employee, taxes included. That employment also enables the training school, performance reviews, and ongoing caregiver support.
No. Families book care without a long-term commitment to an individual nanny and without a large upfront placement fee. Recurring schedules run through a designated nanny while the agency stays involved.
Because the caregivers are the agency's own team. According to founder Carson Wagner, W-2 employment lets the agency train caregivers, conduct performance reviews, and provide ongoing support. All of that travels with the caregiver into each family's home.
Carson Wagner is the founder of Lifetime of Love Nannies, a multi-state nanny agency she started in 2019. She worked as a nanny and did applied behavior analysis therapy work with children with autism before founding the agency. Under her leadership, Lifetime of Love Nannies has provided more than 300,000 hours of care and was named to the 2026 Inc. 5000, and she received the APNA 2024 Rising Star Award. Her story has been featured in Bold Journey and CanvasRebel magazines and on podcasts including Smart Business Revolution.
