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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is really bothering me.  I just gave my weekly house cleaner a $10 raise last month - as in 4 weeks  of the new pay rate- and last week she asked me for another $10 a week raise because of gas prices.  She tells me she has a 30 minute drive and it is getting too expensive to come every week.  She said she could either come every other week, but then have to charge me $60 more each time, or she can come every week with a $10 raise.    I currently pay her $160 for a 3,800 sqft house.  It takes her 3.5 hours, so it comes to $45 per hour, which I think is a good rate.  I pay her when we go out of town and I give her a 2 week pay bonus at Christmas.  When she goes out of town, she has a friend come clean instead, which I really appreciate.  I just can't get past that she wants a raise so soon after I gave her a raise, and I can't think of how to respond, but it really upsets me.  She's been with us for 10 years and I really like her.  I just feel like I will resent her if I give in to this random increase.  Obviously she's not paying an additional $10 in gas every week to drive to our house, so I'm not sure why she said that.  OK DCUM, tell me I'm being petty.[/quote]

You are cheap and what you pay her for this size house is robbery to me. How often does she come? Mine comes every 3 weeks and my home is 1700 Sq feet and she’s here 5 hours with her husband.  She cleans the inside of the fridge, gets in the bathtub to clean it, cleans the baseboards, washes linens, makes beds…..love her work! [/quote]
I was wondering how on earth there was this much cleaning to do based on earlier posts about several hours of cleaning, but with the above it makes sense. We have bi-weekly cleaners for our 1600 sq ft house and the two of them finish in 45 minutes. We pay $90 per cleaning. They don’t clean the inside of the fridge or clean linens - they just mop the floors, vacuum all the spaces and clean the counters. Mostly focus on bathrooms and kitchen. [/quote]

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