London's 'super butlers' who can earn £100k

As a city among the world's top three for the super wealthy, London is seeing a growing rise in demand for so-called super butlers. BBC London's Gareth Furby reports the best butlers - who provide special shopping services and specialise in "making things happen" as well as serving meals - can be paid more than £100,000-a-year. "I think I'm pretty super, yeah," admits butler Mark Soar. Andrew Coy of the British Butler Academy, trainee butlers Conor and Eric also appear in this report.

[stuartgaston]

The guy running this 'school' is a genius - 'candidate butlers' are paying him to come and clean his house.

[cryptomike]

What many here don't understand is that it's not just serving tea. Butlers at the highest end are responsible for the entire house staff as well. They are, for all intents and purposes the CEO or the house or houses that may have staff numbers up to 100 people. Take for example someone with three homes; one in the city, one in the country and one at a favourite vacation spot..all have to be maintained, kept clean, secured and be ready for the family at moments notice. People who make shedloads of money are busy and don't have the time to deal with 'logistics' and what little time they do have they want to enjoy it. They are called golden handcuff's for a reason

[SirKarni]

imagine being so rich that your butler has a butler 🤔

[martinprince]

1:58
"Whatever you want, you can have it...
**Pauses and looks insinuatingly at the camera**
...I can make it happen"

[MelancholyFM-Lain]

Sebastian Michaelis only got paid one soul! He never complained!

[BBCNews]

The best butlers - who provide special shopping services and specialise in "making things happen" as well as serving meals - can be paid more than £100, 000-a-year.

[plumeria]

Most billionaires around the world prefer to hire a native English butler that looks like the ones in Downton Abbey, not just a butler who speaks native English.

[patthonsirilim]

its not always the ability that pays sometime its the absolute display of loyalty that make a butler the creme de la creme of a butler and get payed god knows how much because deep inside us we all would like to have someone like alfred and when your a multi billionaire a few hundred thousand a years even a million is a drop in a bucket for that kind of confidence in absolute discretion

[jminkvihubyb]

I literally just finished a book by Kazuo Ishiguro called "The Remains of the Day"....it was about a "super" butler, worded differently. Fascinating to get into the mind of one of them. He was a proud man but a butler.

[OrionIsDaBest]

LOLOLOLOL 2:29 I think the butler hit his head on the shelving on the way down...loved how he tried to play it off!

[dmx]

Looks like the trainer gets his house cleaned at the same time😂😂😂

[elestryl]

Forget engineering school I'm going to butler school now !

[amorphous]

pfft, I have been a London butler/house manager for 10 years plus, very few pay anywhere near that. average butler salary is 30-45k. House manger 45-75k that high a salary is very rare and would almost certainly involve devoting your entire time to work with few few days off.

[MrMcGee-wvmi]

This reminds me of an anime. *Black Butler*

[SHarpyHaMMeR]

People who are comparing butlers to slaves smh. Like seriously 😒

[nepalihercules]

same old, same old. british giving servants a fancy name and selling it as a status symbol.

[utube]

I have watched Downton Abbey and not once did I see "Mr Carson" the head butler pick up a scrubbing pad!!

[h.alimalik]

As the worlds best butler once said, "Madam, I went to boarding school... Then, I went to therapy."

[TuvaluanHero]

Honestly, I would have a butler that was a former veteran. Teach my kids how to fight since they were kids.

[robrick]

Is this where Alfred studied?
I didn't see Batsuit maintenance being taught.
What about laughing gas first aide.
What a scam.