How rich do you have to be to afford a live in housekeeper?

[Anonymous]

I have an acquaintance who has a live in housekeeper, he bragged about paying her a 100k a year salary. This guy works in tech and lives in a 2.5m home in DC. She cooks all the meals and cleans daily. What sort of income/NW do folks have who can afford this?

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't do it with less than $25M net worth

[Anonymous]

Rich enough that you don’t ask this question.

[Anonymous]

Depends on where you live, I am sure a ton of people would live in for 30 K per year wince you’re including living expenses!!! And quite often some of the food as well. 100K doesn’t make sense.
I do know a lot of girlfriends in Miami that have live ins, Florida is a different ballgame, the pay is low and the Nannies and housekeepers wear uniforms to boot!!!

[Anonymous]

Way less than 100K. My aunt had a iive-in housekeeper when her children were growing up in Bethesda, and they could afford it on her husband's middle class salary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depends on where you live, I am sure a ton of people would live in for 30 K per year wince you’re including living expenses!!! And quite often some of the food as well. 100K doesn’t make sense.
I do know a lot of girlfriends in Miami that have live ins, Florida is a different ballgame, the pay is low and the Nannies and housekeepers wear uniforms to boot!!!

I think culture matters here-- this is super common in Latin America

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Way less than 100K. My aunt had a iive-in housekeeper when her children were growing up in Bethesda, and they could afford it on her husband's middle class salary.

Me again. Granted, that was several years ago (she left maybe 15 years ago?), but still.

[Anonymous]

Is a live in housekeeper that much more expensive than a live in nanny?

[Anonymous]

I know this is not particularly useful, but it's true: it depends on what you spend the rest of your money on. The median household income is around $70,000, so if you paid the housekeeper $50,000, you could do it on a $200,000 income and still be richer than most households on the money you had left over. Obviously, though, almost no one with a $200,000 household income would prioritize having a live-in housekeeper that much. But some people with a $300-$400k income might, whereas other who are much richer would choose not to.

[Anonymous]

It’s often cheaper than a full time housekeeper that doesn’t live with you because board is part of the compensation package.

[Anonymous]

DH and I talk about this. We pay $50k per year for a nanny (plus $600/month for our weekly cleaner), and we'd be thrilled to pay that much for a full time housekeeper once we no longer need a nanny. We both hate housework and we live in a large house at DH's insistence with the understanding that he wants the house, he cleans it or pays a cleaner. HHI is ~$900k.

[Anonymous]

We had one for a few years when I had 4 kids under 5. A pair of twins at the end. We paid her 56k with living quarters but she ended up meeting someone and moving in with them maybe 4 months in. Which was totally fine because she still was close and came daily. She worked 5.5 hours 7 days a week or 8 hours a day 5 days a week. We kinda switched off depending on needs. Occasionally during my spouses work trips she might work 4 ten hours days or something. She didn’t do childcare but she was always cool with me taking my eldest out when the littles were napping and just would text me when she heard stiring on the monitor. I never was more then a few minutes away. But if I HAD to be somewhere like volunteering at the school or a doctors apointment I wouldn’t try and use naps and her at the house to do this etc. We had a year contract and extended it 6 months. We now use her 16 hours a week and another family uses her 24.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have an acquaintance who has a live in housekeeper, he bragged about paying her a 100k a year salary. This guy works in tech and lives in a 2.5m home in DC. She cooks all the meals and cleans daily. What sort of income/NW do folks have who can afford this?

Does the housekeeper speak English? Is she documented/legal to work? Is she older?

I have two friends who have live-in housekeepers and pay them around $2,000 per month. One in VA the other in FL.

As someone mentioned it is very common for Latin American people to have live-in housekeepers and for ladies to be live-housekeepers as well.

The one in VA is an older lady. The one in FL is younger and lives in with her daughter.

It would be really generous if your acquaintance pays his live in housekeeper 100K but I seriously doubt it. Shame on him for bragging!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Depends on where you live, I am sure a ton of people would live in for 30 K per year wince you’re including living expenses!!! And quite often some of the food as well. 100K doesn’t make sense.
I do know a lot of girlfriends in Miami that have live ins, Florida is a different ballgame, the pay is low and the Nannies and housekeepers wear uniforms to boot!!!

I think culture matters here-- this is super common in Latin America

Then. Even if you are middle class. He probably does pay her $100k. So what? It works out to about $20/hour. What until York parents need help. I’m paying $500 a day.

[Anonymous]

The problem is that when I’m home, I don’t want someone else to be there. But if I worked out of the house, maybe.