How much to pay a housekeeper

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$25/hour

Agree. Pay for it all at the same rate.

How much would the hourly rate be for the cleanings that the does, OP? For example, if she charges $200 to clean your house, about how many hours does it take her?

[Anonymous]

To the $15/hr poster:
How does an adult live on that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To the $15/hr poster:
How does an adult live on that?

Are you seriously asking me how an adult lives on $15/hr? That is more than I earned coming out of law school and working for the government.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To the $15/hr poster:
How does an adult live on that?

Are you seriously asking me how an adult lives on $15/hr? That is more than I earned coming out of law school and working for the government.

And what year was that?

[Anonymous]

Ask her how much she'd charge per hour. If you agree, done. $20 is reasonable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I asked our cleaning lady to come in 10 hours a week every week to fold clothes, do laundry, pick up mess and organize. No cooking or babysitting.

Right now she comes every two weeks and charges $180 for 2000 sq. feet (2 baths).

The new schedule will be 10hrs (maybe more) a week +regular cleaning once every week or every two weeks.

How much would you pay for this job? I asked her to think about the money and said we’ll be thinking too.

We are in NoVa.

Dear OP, just think how much you would do this job for if you were doing it for me. That much.
I am sure, you very quickly realize that you would not do this for the peanuts you pay her.
Be generous, one day you might end up working for someone in this line of work.
With robots replacing people, soon your job might disappear and Karma might
come back right at you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To the $15/hr poster:
How does an adult live on that?

Are you seriously asking me how an adult lives on $15/hr? That is more than I earned coming out of law school and working for the government.

And what year was that?

Also, when someone is working part time they have ZERO benefits so they have to cover
everything from the money they earn.

It is amazing how some people remember how they came out of law school
and were paid 15/hr in 75 or 96.. back then, you could buy gallon of fuel
for 88 cents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To the $15/hr poster:
How does an adult live on that?

Are you seriously asking me how an adult lives on $15/hr? That is more than I earned coming out of law school and working for the government.

And what year was that?

Also, when someone is working part time they have ZERO benefits so they have to cover
everything from the money they earn.

It is amazing how some people remember how they came out of law school
and were paid 15/hr in 75 or 96.. back then, you could buy gallon of fuel
for 88 cents.

So what if it’s part time? That’s her choice. I’m not obligated to increase her wages because she works part time. If you dropped to part time, would you expect your employer to increase your wages to offset the lost income and benefits? Of course not. You’re not expected to support yourself doing part time work. People who work part time support themselves by working more than one job or having a partner who supports them (which is the case here). A living wage is based on working full time, not part time.

[Anonymous]

Our housekeeper has worked for us for 7+ years. She generally works 24 hours per week, but that isn't all just housekeeping. The housekeeping part is probably only 10-15 hours a week. The other time is spent doing other house-related things.

She gets $25/hour, plus I pay her taxes. I pay her whether or not she works. So, for example, when we are traveling or gone for the summer, I still pay her. This year, she received about 6 weeks off paid (she went home to the Phillipines for 3 weeks).

She also gets an annual bonus.

[Anonymous]

You should pay between $20 and $25 per hour and you should guarantee hours.

$20 an hour is pretty typical for light housekeeping like laundry, tidying up, food prep. Plenty of students, stay home moms, and hard-working women without employment papers will take jobs like that.

Market rates for heavy cleaning are more than $20 an hour, because service provider expectations are influenced by the rates that homeowners typically pay to cleaning services ($25-30 an hour) who then cover insurance, overhead, employment taxes, etc. out of that rate before paying the worker $15. If you are employing this person directly, paying employment taxes, and providing the security of guaranteed hours and paid vacation, $20 is reasonable. That's more than what undocumented employees and non-English speakers get paid by most services. You may need to convince the employee that you can't pay what the services typically charge homeowners because you will be responsible for worker's compensation insurance, a holiday bonus, pay during your vacation, employment taxes, etc.

[Anonymous]

we pay our house cleaner $150/week for roughly 3-4 hours of work, plus we recognize that it takes her half an hour to get to and from our house. we use a payroll service and pay the tax etc. she is paid whether we are here or on vacation or whatever, and she is paid even in weeks she is on vacation or can't come for some reason. why? because we appreciate the fact that it is hard to make a living when you have to patch together lots of different small jobs, and making sure we pay a decent wage, ensure she gets social security credits for her work and do what we can to keep her income from us stable is the least we can do.

[Anonymous]

You folks are paying the housekeeper more than the nanny! you value a clean house over someone who raises your children??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You folks are paying the housekeeper more than the nanny! you value a clean house over someone who raises your children??

Huge difference. While a nanny does a lot and is obviously taking care of children, nannies have more downtime. A housekeeper will always be on the go with cleaning, etc and their work is harder to do physically.

I have so much respect for cleaners. I sure as hell could never clean someone's gross home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are y’all actually insane? It’s HOUSECLEANING. There’s no childcare. $25/hr is a $50,000 full time salary. You do realize that college grads working at non profits in this area earn that, right? OP I pay $15/hourly for slightly less than ten hours/week. I had zero problems locating someone on care.com. She cooks and she’s not even my regular twice monthly cleaner.

Seriously.

$12 /hr is PLENTY.

This isn't rocket science. You don't even need to speak English for this. $25 an hour?!?! Insanity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I asked our cleaning lady to come in 10 hours a week every week to fold clothes, do laundry, pick up mess and organize. No cooking or babysitting.

Right now she comes every two weeks and charges $180 for 2000 sq. feet (2 baths).

The new schedule will be 10hrs (maybe more) a week +regular cleaning once every week or every two weeks.

How much would you pay for this job? I asked her to think about the money and said we’ll be thinking too.

We are in NoVa.

Dear OP, just think how much you would do this job for if you were doing it for me. That much.
I am sure, you very quickly realize that you would not do this for the peanuts you pay her.
Be generous, one day you might end up working for someone in this line of work.
With robots replacing people, soon your job might disappear and Karma might
come back right at you.

You sound nuts. Did Karma get you in the head already?