To think £17 an hour for a cleaner is unreasonable?

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Is genuinely not sure if I am BU here.

We moved to London a while ago and are looking for a cleaner. The one we had out of London was £13 ph (and AMAZING). Most of the people we’ve got in touch with recently haven’t responded and the one that has has said £17ph.

AIBU? Or is this just the cost of a cleaner?

Reasonable imo

I think that’s a bit steep to be honest. We pay £13 ph on the outskirts of London.

I pay £15 outside London.

I’m in a leafy bit of SW London/Surrey and pay £12/hr.

Pay £15 in Scotland

I dunno. Cleaning up someone else’s shit stains seems like a job you couldn’t ever pay me to do so from that perspective £17ph is very reasonable

No this is very high. Going rate £12 but more with agency.

We are in an affluent part of Berkshire and pay £12.50 which doesn’t actually feel like enough if I’m honest given the cost of living round here.

I think it depends on number of hours. If you're after an hour here and there then the £17 includes travel costs and time. If it's a 3.5hr plus block with no agency/ overhead charge to take into account it sounds a bit steep.

I think it sounds reasonable. How many hours are you offering your cleaner? If only a couple then it is sensible for her to build the cost and time of travel into her hourly rate imo.

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London and £10 an hour. Sounds steep to me !

I think thats normal london rates, doesnt seem unreasonable to me.
We pay £16 an hour outside of london

Also Berkshire - £10 per hour. We replied to her ad at that rate.

Depends where in London. It’s cheap in Central. But in the suburbs where cleaners are more likely to be local you could probably get one for a bit over minimum wage.

£10 an hour is the norm around here. £12.50 through an agency. Do you have any friends that could recommend someone to you?

expensive. in Scotland and £12 an hour for mum's cleaner.

Sounds expensive to me.

London £13 ph here

Is it with an agency? Does she bring her own cleaning products/equipment? I pay £13 an hour to an agency (London suburbs). I have heard of higher charges when they don't use your supplies/hoover etc.

It does seem to have rocketed in the last few years
I live outside London ,,, commuter rather than surburban surrey
I pay £13 an hour

I don’t think this is high and she is very good , thorough , reliable and we like her a lot
I think I got lucky and would probably concede to paying more if asked

I provide all cleaning products

She’s a very up together young Mum and “ professional “
She drives a far nicer car than me

I am a single mum with a full time , physically demanding job
For me it’s worth putting the cash towards that and budgeting elsewhere for it
My hard earn motto is look after your cleaner and childcare

Hope this helps

SE London zone 2 - £10 an hour. Our cleaner before this one charged the same and it seems to be the going rate in this area.

We are greater London, not far from Croydon. We recently gave our cleaner a raise and she is now on £13 an hour. I know she charges new clients more so assuming you are living somewhere quite upmarket £17 sounds like a realistic price.

I pay £10 an hour in Shropshire.

£17? No way! That must be through an agency... obviously it’s quite a bit more through an agency as you are in effect paying a large per hour fee to the agency...