Becoming an Au Pair in France is a real cultural exchange experience !
As an equal member of your host family, you will be a role model, friend, and companion to your host children, so a genuine love for children is important ! Au Pairs provide up to 25 hours of childcare assistance per week and receive a weekly stipend. The host family provides a private room and meals.
Europair Services ensures that both you and your host family are having a successful time together.
Europair ensures the right fit for your Au Pair experience
The French host families are carefully selected. They live in areas located in Paris and outskirts of Paris but also all over France.
Europair Services will help you match with a family whose needs, expectations and lifestyle match with yours. Finding the right family is essential to a successful au pair experience. Europair Services focuses on making the matching process between Au Pairs and host families very personal.
Each family is unique and the number of children and their ages will vary from family to family. All of our families share the desire for the perfect Au Pair to join their lives. They are looking for an open-minded, flexible individual who will care for their children in a safe, fun, and reliable way!
Your daily schedule will also be varied. It will depend a lot on the ages and needs of the children you are caring for and the individual requirements of your host family. Your tasks may include :
- Ensuring children’s safety and security as a priority,
- Waking the children up,
- Dressing, bathing and playing with them,
- Preparing their meals,
- Making their beds and doing the children’s laundry,
- Driving them to and from school or after school activities, play dates, etc.,
- Tidying up after them,
- Helping them with homework,
- Babysitting some evenings if the parents are out,
- Sharing your own culture through songs, games, stories, cooking, etc.,
- Doing light housework related to children,
- Being their friend and having fun!
As an Au Pair, your responsibilities are centered on the children, and you won’t be expected to do heavy housework!
Europair’s full support from application to arrival
- Care and support during the application, interview and matching process,
- A personal interview with a member of our team,
- Assistance with Visa Jeune Au pair process and obtention,
- In person au pair meeting at Europair Services office in Paris or visio if placed out of Paris Region,
- Au pair meetings / social events during the year of stay.
Improve your French with optional French lessons
French courses are not mandatory. If you need, Europair Services helps you with finding the right school where you can attend French classes, depending on the location, the level of French, the planning and the prices.
The fees are fully at your expense. You’ll need to use your personal funds.
Time off, time to explore: discover France and beyond as an Au Pair
With 2 weeks paid vacation (for 1 year stay) and at least 1 full weekend off per month, you will have lots of free time to explore your local area and to travel to new and exciting places in France or Europe.
Living with a French host family not only introduces you to French culture and lifestyle. You will get to know so many other cultures through the friends you will make during your stay.
You will never get bored during your free time in France! We will always have a lot of activities and outings options : famous monuments, museums and places, shopping, French festival, French gastronomy…
OUR LABELLISATIONS

Specialists in placing Au Pairs in France for +35 years, we are members of the UFAAP (Union Française des Agences Au Pair) and the IAPA (International Au Pair Association). These 2 accreditations guarantee you a quality charter for our assistance throughout your stay and high standards in terms of reception and living conditions.
Highlights of being an Au Pair in France
- A complete immersion in French culture and way of life
- The best way to learn French and gain international experience
- Short stays possible over the summer (2 to 3 months) or over 6 months
- A visa “Jeune Au Pair” delivered for 12 months, extendable 12 months
- A medical coverage “sécurité sociale” during the stay






Conditions
to be an Au Pair in France
- Be aged between 18 and 30 years old.
- Be a non smoker.
- Have a non-family childcare experience.
- Provide at least on e non family childcare reference.
- Have a secondary school graduation or equivalent.
- Have a good standard of spoken French skills (B1) or excellent English skills (C1).
- Have never been convicted of a criminal offense.
- Have a valid driving license and clean driving record (not mandatory).
- Be available for a minimum of 6 months stay if European citizen, or 12 months stay for non-European citizen.
Remuneration and benefits
A weekly stipend | 80€ minimum per week |
Full board 21 weekly meals | Included |
Accommodation in own private room | Included |
Transport access | 50% of Public transportation tickets allowance by the family |
Holiday | 2 weeks paid vacation for 12 months stay for 12 months stay 1.5 days off per week minimum 1 full weekend off per month |
Standard medical coverage | Included |
100% medical, liability and repatriation cover | Option |
Local support from a Europair team included also organized social events and activities in your area to meet other au pairs | Included |
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Costs for the participant
Placement fee | contact us |
Flight/train tickets | at your expense |
French Embassy Fee if none European citizen | €149 The cost of your visa application is €99 + €50 for validation of the visa once in France. |
Travel expenses to your interview at the embassy and airport in your home country | at your expense |
SHE LEFT FOR FRANCE WITH EUROPAIR
I took part in the au pair programme for one and a half years and it was a very enriching experience. Thanks to the programme, I was able to fully immerse myself in French culture with my host family. I also improved my French a lot thanks to the daily interaction with the children.
I would recommend this programme 100%: it’s really worth it. The application process is simple and the agency was with me every step of the way.