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To charge £10 an hour as a cleaner?

97 replies

shrunkenhead · 05/12/2013 13:06

Just the above, really. Times are hard and have asked my boss if she has a house cleaner and she said she didn't but needs ones so volunteered my services.Am also advertising in my local area. Do you think £10 per hr is about right or too low? I am fully CRB checked and don't smoke so won't be bobbing off for fag breaks every ten mins.

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Theas18 · 05/12/2013 13:08

Hmm seems a lot and I'd expect you to be efficient and effective but if someone will pay it, you can charge it!

MrsLettuce · 05/12/2013 13:08

Sounds about right to me but it depends on income levels where you are really.

SillyTilly123 · 05/12/2013 13:08

Where abouts are you? I know one of our clients (we're gardeners) has a cleaner and she pays £10 an hour but we're in the N-East so think thats ok. But might be dearer in London for example.

bigTillyMintspie · 05/12/2013 13:09

I am happy to pay my cleaner £10 an hour. In London.

Sychnant · 05/12/2013 13:10

I charge that, I'm in Wales. I supply all the cleaning equipment for that price though :)

TheVermiciousGrinch · 05/12/2013 13:10

That's what we pay our cleaner. Go for it!

manicinsomniac · 05/12/2013 13:10

I'd pay that willingly if I had a cleaner. Seems low if anything. Cleaning sucks! Grin

SecondStarToTheRight · 05/12/2013 13:13

That's what we pay for a fully insured cleaner through a cleaning agency.
Seems to be the going rate around here.

In the midlands

Original poster
shrunkenhead · 05/12/2013 13:15

I'm on the Lancashire/Yorkshire border, so not London prices. I am v efficient, all working no shirking!

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NeverKnowinglyUnderstood · 05/12/2013 13:15

that is what we pay our cleaner.
(although I would pay more if she was amazing)

Topaz25 · 05/12/2013 13:17

YANBU. Prices depend on the area but we live in the North East and pay our cleaner £9 an hour.

Twattyzombiebollocks · 05/12/2013 13:17

£10 per hour is what I pay, she brings her own cleaning stuff although I do provide vinegar spray for windows and mirrors.

GinOnTwoWheels · 05/12/2013 13:25

Ooh Shrunkenhead, you are a bit too far west for me, but if you were closer, I would happily pay you £10 for cleaning you would probably want to charge more when you saw the state of my house though.

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 05/12/2013 13:25

If you pay peanuts you get monkeys. If they want your services they'll pay.

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shrunkenhead · 05/12/2013 13:26

Neverknowingly, how is she not amazing? Surely you tell her what needs doing/leave her a list and she does it? Curious as like to think I'm good but would hate for a customer to not be happy with my work.

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Bowlersarm · 05/12/2013 13:27

I pay £12, south east.

superlambanana · 05/12/2013 13:28

We pay ours £11 per hour (NW England)

WorraLiberty · 05/12/2013 13:29

What about insurance OP?

specialsubject · 05/12/2013 13:29

if you do a good job, it is cheap. You have to get there, which costs time and money for which you aren't paid. You probably won't earn enough to pay tax but you will register as self-employed and pay national insurance. At the lower rate but still adds up.

lot of cluelessness about a fair hourly rate now.

go for it.

BTW fag breaks (not that they matter for you) should be done on own time, like any other drug taking. I would not employ anyone who couldn't last two hours without a fix, and if they came in reeking of smoke that would be their last visit.

BumPotato · 05/12/2013 13:31

£12.50 and £12.95 an hour was what I've been quoted, NE Scotland so £10 seems very reasonable.

ArtexMonkey · 05/12/2013 13:34

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Totallyunited · 05/12/2013 13:34

I wouldn't pay it, I pay £8 for an excellent cleaner, I don't think that you would get work at £10 an hour here as supply far outstrips demand but no harm in asking for it.

ILetHimKeep20Quid · 05/12/2013 13:36

Work your rate out once you have factored in your insurance, ni contributions and potential tax although you will likely be under the threshold but you still have to register with hmrc.

Anatanacoat · 05/12/2013 13:36

I pay £12.50 an hour here, in the NW, sounds like very near you. A good cleaner is worth every penny.

slev · 05/12/2013 13:36

We pay £11.90 an hour but through an agency so that includes a management fee (and also guarantee of replacement cleaner if ours is sick/on holiday etc.). That's SW London.