For caregivers
Companionship work, on your own terms, with families near you.
Roost introduces you to families looking for company for someone they love. You set your hourly rate, you choose which requests to take, and the family pays you. Roost charges the family a platform fee on top of your rate, so your rate is your rate.
Apply to join
Roost introduces. You and the family agree the rest between you.
Four rules, and they are built in
You type in your hourly rate and you can change it whenever you want. Roost publishes a suggested range and a floor for your area, with a note saying where those numbers came from. They are market data. Nobody at Roost can set your rate or talk you down from it.
You see a request and you decide. Saying no costs you nothing: it does not move you down a list, and the arithmetic that decides who a family sees cannot read your declines at all.
Work for families you found elsewhere, for another platform, for an agency, all at the same time. Roost asks nothing of you outside the bookings you accept through it.
No wage, no schedule set for you, and nobody at Roost telling you how to do the work. Your agreement about the care is with the family, and Roost is not a party to it.
The money, in one paragraph
The family pays for the hours the two of you confirm. The charge settles on your own connected payment account, and Roost takes its platform fee from the family in the same transaction. Your rate never sits in Roost's balance, and the fee is never taken out of it. Card processing costs come out of Roost's fee too.
Every rate you have ever set is kept with the date and the range you were shown at the time, so what you charged and when is never a matter of opinion.
Read the caregiver termsJoining
The application is a set of questions about your experience, the work you want and the people you work well with. A person reads every answer. No software scores, ranks or grades applicants, and none of it decides anything.
Before your profile goes live, Roost runs a criminal background check through a consumer reporting agency. You see the disclosure and sign the permission first, as two separate documents, because the law requires them to be separate. If something in the report would stop you being listed, you get a copy, a summary of your rights and at least five business days to correct it before anything is final. Roost never keeps the report itself.
The work booked through Roost is companionship: company, a walk, a meal made together, a lift to an appointment. Hands-on personal care, medication and anything a nurse does are outside it, and you can decline anything you think falls outside it.
What Roost asks of you, in full
