How much does it cost for a domestic cleaner in 2019?

janb5

trailingspouse wrote: »

My cleaner charges £13.50 per hour, so 2 hours costs me £27.

I'm just amazed at what she gets done in 2 hours!! Hoovers upstairs and downstairs + stairs, dusts ditto, washes kitchen floor and cleans the bathroom. I started using her because a bad hip meant lugging the hoover around was difficult. The hip has been better for a while now...

I`m exactly the same as you having had a total knee replacement in January. Keeping my cleaner tho`!

walwyn1978

3 hours at £10 p/h every two weeks. And she’s brilliant. We provide hoover/steamer, she brings everything else. Like the poster above, she’s picky about who she cleans for and came highly recommended - she actually turns down work regularly. We’re very lucky to have her in my view. North Yorkshire.

nLdn

I pay £12 / hour in London.

If you deal with an agency, ask how much the cleaner doing the work actually gets. When I looked into it, the ones that answered were paying the cleaner well below london living wage. Luckily I found mine through personal recommendation of a friend.

Mistral001

nLdn wrote: »

I pay £12 / hour in London.

If you deal with an agency, ask how much the cleaner doing the work actually gets. When I looked into it, the ones that answered were paying the cleaner well below london living wage. Luckily I found mine through personal recommendation of a friend.

I am surprised you got an answer. Such information is usually considered commercial and confidential.

If you cannot get an answer from the agency, I would not push the cleaners to disclose how much they get paid as you could get them dropped from the agency's books for breaching confidentiality. They could also be sued for damages by the agency - but unlikely.

nLdn

Mistral001

Actually some of the agencies have a system where you pay the agency a monthly amount and it's up to you to give the remaining balance to the cleaner themselves when they turn up each time. This makes it clear what the cleaner themselves is taking home.

The most likely reason a cleaning agency would be hiding what they pay their cleaners would be to cover up them not paying equivalent to the living wage.

If I'm trusting someone to come into my home on a regular basis to clean I want to be confident they are being paid properly.

Mistral001

nLdn wrote: »

Mistral001

If I'm trusting someone to come into my home on a regular basis to clean I want to be confident they are being paid properly.

You probably would want to know whether they have a criminal record or not, whether they will be punctual, whether they will be professional and not speak about you and your business to other customers or neighbours etc. and of course whether they can actually clean properly. Those things are not necessarily linked to how much they are paid.

nLdn

I want people working for me to be treated well and with respect.

piggy_bank

Out of curiosity - what is the etiquette with keys for a cleaner? Do they hold a spare key, do you hide one under a flowerpot, are you supposed to be around to let them in?

happyandcontented

Ours come once a month and blitz the house for 4 hours, two ladies. I pay £100 per month. It is a very large 4 bed/2 bath with Conservatory. They stick to the same day each month and are very reliable, but flexible.

We have a coded key lockbox ( bought off Amazon) where we store the house key.