For caregivers
Set your own rate. Choose your own work.
Roost introduces you to families near you. You set your hourly rate, you decide which requests to take, and the family pays you. Roost is not your employer.
A clear way forward
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Answer the questions
Your experience, the hours you want, and the people you work well with. A person reads every answer.
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Set your rate
You type it in against a published range and a floor. You can change it whenever you want.
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Take the work you want
A family asks, and you decide. Declining costs you nothing.
Your rate, your hours.Your call, every time.
You set your rate
Roost publishes a suggested range and a floor for your area and says where those numbers came from. Nobody at Roost can set your rate, edit it, or talk you down from it.
Offered, never assigned
You see a request and you decide. A decline does not move you down a list: the arithmetic that decides who a family sees cannot read your declines at all.
Paid by the family, in full
The family pays your rate for the hours you both confirm. Roost's fee is charged to them on top of it, never taken out of it, and card processing comes out of Roost's fee.
Tell us a little about you.
New to companionship work, or bringing years of experience? Start with the questions and a person will read every answer.
- Say what experience you have and the hours you want
- Set your own hourly rate against the published range
- Read the caregiver terms before you agree to anything
Request a conversation
No documents needed to get started.
How your application is reviewed
A person reads your application and a person decides. We do not use software that scores, ranks or grades applicants, and no automated tool decides whether you are hired. If that ever changes, we will tell you before it applies to you, and you can ask to be considered another way.
Your state may name a law for this
- California. California's rules on automated decision systems cover any software used to make a hiring choice. We keep the records those rules ask for, and we do not use such a system to decide who is hired. (California Civil Rights Department regulations on automated-decision systems, under the Fair Employment and Housing Act, since 1 October 2025.)
- Illinois. Illinois says an employer must tell you when artificial intelligence is used in hiring, and may not use your ZIP code as a stand-in for race or another protected trait. We use neither. (820 ILCS 42, the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act, and the 2026 amendments to the Illinois Human Rights Act (HB 3773), since 1 January 2026.)
- New York City. New York City asks for a bias audit and at least ten business days' notice before an automated hiring tool is used on you. We do not use one, and if that ever changed you would get that notice first. (New York City Local Law 144 of 2021, since 5 July 2023.)
- Texas. Texas set rules for how artificial intelligence may be used and what you must be told about it. Here the answer is that no automated system sorts applicants at all. (the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (HB 149), since 1 January 2026.)