To check this - Christmas box for cleaner

[Aherdofmims]

Should be a week's pay, right?

If an individual person not a company where individual changes.

Can I hijack to ask what the norm is for a big, expensive cleaning company?

They send two people, not always the same two, weekly, and are expensive - though only a portion of what I pay for a clean gets passed on to the employees, I assume. One woman comes most weeks, but with lots of different colleagues, and I want to give her something, but then it would feel unfair to omit a colleague who's never previously cleaned my house and whose name I don't even know, but equally odd to include her alongside someone I do know?

I give my cleaner a present - a small hamper or box of chocolates. My cleaner then doesn't come between xmas and new year, so gets a week off which I continue to pay for, so effectively that is the actual present.

I have bought my cleaner a bottle of chocolate Baileys.
She loves Baileys it's her favourite drink but only even buys supermarket own brand Irish cream as it's cheaper, so every year I buy her a big bottle of flavoured Baileys and a nice box of chocolates and I know she loves it.

My cleaner won't take a 'bonus', every year I leave a bottle of wine and a card with some cash in it.

She takes the wine and card but leaves the cash in the card she leaves for me in return.

Makes me crazy, I am always trying to sneak her extra (she is agency).

I give a week's pay (to make up for the week she doesn't work), bottle of fizz, chocs and a card.

Mine is off for two weeks (she comes on Thursdays so these fall on BHs this year) so I have paid her for those weeks as well as this week, plus a small present that was about £10

You give what you can afford and feel comfortable with, surely?! This kind of thread always has me scratching my head!
There's no right or way wrong amount to give. You give what you can afford, and to them it's an extra that they'll be appreciative of as it's not what they usually get - it's a present on top of usual stuff.
Don't be worried about what everyone else is doing as everyone's financial status is different - do what YOU can afford and stuff everyone else!

thanks all ll for the replies.

I had already done it in fact - left week's pay extra which is £20 (I know that is quite cheap) a card and selection boxes for her two kids. She just text me before I posted seeming really surprised so I wanted to check whether had either been crass to leave money or if it was a bit tight. It was a very nice text but I am a worrier.

OP, sounds like you judged it just right.

I only give mine a box of chocs, but I do pay holiday pay throughout the year

Mine will get an extra £20 and a bottle of wine. Her pay is £20 a week.

Beangarda, most of the other cleaning companies, large and small that I am friendly with do as we do and share pressies and tips between all staff so I don't think it matters who you address it to!

Having said that, some do allow each cleaner to keep their own!

What about just leaving the gift without a name but a card to the cleaner you know well with some kind words in it?

Mine has had a bottle of champagne and £25 - she usually earns about £55 a week

Pretty card, one week pay and some bath products here.