Try Them. Keep Them. The Helpore Model, Explained

In Switzerland, hundreds of thousands of households get help at home, and far too much of that work happens off the books: no insurance, no pension, no proof of income, and for the household, no cover if anything goes wrong. Helpore is built to fix both sides of that handshake, for the whole of Switzerland.

The model is simple to say and hard to copy. The Helper is fully declared, keeps their full self-set wage, and gets paid holiday and insurance on every hour. The household finds and chooses their Helper, hires them directly the proper Swiss way, and Helpore runs all the payroll and paperwork on its behalf. One transparent receipt, a booking in minutes, and nobody has to compromise for the other side to win.

"Your Helper keeps every franc of their wage. You see every franc of the price. That is the entire trick."

— The Helpore model in two sentences

One story in three acts: try, love, keep

Most platforms assign you a helper and hope for the best. Helpore turns the relationship itself into the product.

• Try them. Browse real Helper profiles: photo, languages, experience, services, rate. Pick the person you like and book a single afternoon. Fully insured, fully declared, no commitment. If they do not confirm within 2 hours, your card is never charged.
• Love working with them? Make it weekly. Keep the same Helper every week with a recurring booking. Same person, same transparent receipt, zero admin. They stay fully declared and insured on every visit, and their calendar gives you priority.
• Keep them, your way. When you know you want your Helper long term, Helpore Admin makes the permanent arrangement a few signatures instead of a bureaucracy project, and Helpore keeps running the payroll and paperwork on your behalf. Working with your Helper long term is the point of the model, not a loophole in it. And if you already have someone helping at home, you can start here directly: Helpore Admin runs the payroll for the person you already have.

For Helpers: your wage is your wage. And that is only the beginning.

Whether you clean, cook, care for children or older adults, run errands, organise homes or keep someone company today, here is what changes when you join Helpore: you set your own hourly rate, CHF 26 or more, and you keep your full brutto wage, always. You choose your services, your area and your hours once, and households book you. No bidding, no chasing, no fees to join, ever. And you stay free to decline any individual job, with no penalty.

One steady household, plus a flexible week. You never have to choose.

Here is the part no agency and no cash arrangement can offer at the same time. When a household loves working with you and goes regular through Helpore Admin, that becomes your steady anchor: the same home, the same day, every week, income you can plan around. And the rest of your week stays completely yours: you keep taking flexible bookings from other households on Helpore whenever you want them. Security from your regular, freedom from the rest. Both at once, always.

Because every household hires you the proper Swiss way, with Helpore running the payroll and paperwork behind the scenes, every hour you work quietly builds more than the hour itself:

• Full brutto wage. You set the rate, from CHF 26 per hour. Every franc of it is yours, on a punctual Swiss payslip.
• Paid holidays. 8.33% holiday pay accrues on every single hour and is there for you when you take time off.
• Fully declared, always. Every hour is declared and registered: AHV from the first franc, official filings done, nothing off the books.
• Covered if life happens. Accident and social insurance on every single hour, so one bad fall never becomes a financial disaster.

Declared work is not just money. It means AHV years, proof of income for your apartment and your permit, and insurance if you fall. Your work already deserves that.

From the EU or EFTA? No permit needed. Come work in Switzerland.

If you are an EU or EFTA citizen, you can work in Switzerland up to 90 days per calendar year with no work permit at all. The law asks only for a short official notification, and Helpore files it for you. So the offer is simple: come work in Switzerland fully declared, insured and on a real Swiss payslip, and we handle the paperwork. Two honest limits so you can plan: the rule caps at 90 worked days per year, and the notification needs a few days of lead time before your first booking.

The first 100 founding Helpers also get the founding badge, permanent profile placement, a free professional photo and bio, and CHF 35 for every friend they refer who completes 30 booked hours.

What your hours are really worth with Helpore

Move the sliders. This calculator compares like with like: your declared yearly pay with Helpore, at the rate you set yourself, against a typical agency arrangement where the agency sets a fixed rate. Paid holiday and social insurance sit on both sides, because every declared employer owes them. The difference you see comes from one thing: with Helpore, the rate is yours.