If you have a cleaner do you give them a Christmas bonus?

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If so how much? I pay my cleaner £25 a week. At Xmas I give her an extra £25. Not sure if this is stingy..?

I was going to give a week’s pay, but my friend also has the same cleaner, and thinks that this is overkill (!) I’m thinking £10 and a nice bottle of wine. To be honest, we’d struggle to give her a week’s extra pay at the moment anyway.

I’m a cleaner. And yes I clean off skid marks. Nice huh. I would embarrassed if that was me but hey ho. Never had a bonus

I buy a nice present. I give her the choice if she wants to come still between Christmas and new year and if she doesn't I don't pay her. My OH doesn't get paid if he doesn't work and it's tight for us over Christmas as work drys up so I can't justify paying if she chooses not to work. That said she is amazing and I do appreciate her so I spend a good amount on a present I know she will appreciate

Oh and I do t leave skiddies for her. I do a quick check due to phantom pooing small children before I leave on her day

Oh and I don't leave skiddies for her. I do a quick check due to phantom pooing small children before I leave on her day to come.

I'm a cleaner and usually get a nice bottle of wine or chocs. Would be nice to get a £20 note

And as Demelzasdilemma said, if I don't work, then I don't get paid. But around Xmas time I do have the week off as it's important to have family time. And everyone's house is a bomb site until new year anyway!

We've had a cleaner for 5 years, small local agency and we have regular cleaners. I always give them a bonus of a week's pay which is only 2% of their yearly charge, although as a percentage of their salary I guess it's higher. And if some people don't give them a Christmas bonus that's even less. I do think if you can afford a cleaner then you should be able to afford an extra week as a bonus. Cleaners work hard on NMW, least they deserve is a bit more at Christmas.

I had a cleaner for many years and always gave her a present (and for her children when they were little) and a cash bonus, usually an extra week's wages.

Yes absolutely. Honestly she holds my life together, and does a wonderful job. I’ll happily give an extra week’s pay for that.

The same girl has been coming to me for years and I would pay her 30 euros a week At Christmas I pay her 100. I think she needs the cash more than a present.

We do a week's money too

I'm a cleaner, I have had the same houses weekly. Last year my I was given a extra weeks money from most of my clients, the ones that didn't give money left me a present.

Out of curiosity....if your cleaner doesn't leave a little something back would you think she/he was stingy? I give a card with scratch cards in it, this year I was thinking of buying a selection box for the DC's too but I don't fancy spending my wages that I need on DC's I don't see I do pick up their mess each week and tidy their rooms

I think a week’s salary is a nice gift, although we’ve only had our new cleaners (sisters) for 2 months, so I’ll buy a gift (around £20 each) instead of cash this year

Jo malone candle for mine she was telling me last week how much she like them

I don’t have a cleaner but my elderly MIL has a couple of lady cleaners who come in every two weeks. She always gives them a cash bonus at Xmas in a Christmas card. She says they are worth spoiling as they do her house so well.

It hasn't even occurred to me to give my cleaner a bonus. My sister is my cleaner and we don't do xmas presents. Now I don't know what to do lol

We have a new one who seems lovely so far but she will only have done 4 cleans by Xmas - we pay £40 a clean; what do you think would be right there? I gave my last one a week's money, presents for her kids to same value, and a hamper. She'd been here almost a year though.

I usually give her a box of chocolates and a weeks wages in her card.

I give £50 on top of her £24 usual money. And I always make sure I chip off any skiddies, and pick DH's pants up off the floor, before she arrives. Class, me.

I usually leave a weeks money or a present.

@MaHeidsGouping I much prefer not to receive a gift from my cleaner (although a card is nice if you want to leave something). It makes the dynamic weird and changes a relationship based on a transaction of work for pay into something else - obviously not applicable if you're actually friends! I had a cleaner who used to give generously at Xmas and rather than enjoying it I used to worry that I should increase her bonus further to cover the cost of her gifts to me!

Cleaner and gardener's get an extra week's money. Postie, bin men get a tip. Handyman gets a gift, window cleaner gets a tip if he comes near christmas.

I do an extra week's pay in a Christmas card, £60 as she comes twice a week, and some chocolates. Also obvs pay any days she doesn't work over xmas/new year if it falls on her days. I wouldn't want her to get us anything, she can't afford to be spending her money on us.