To give £100 Xmas bonus to cleaner

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Usually pay her £25 a week.

She’s been cleaning my home about 8 months so first Xmas.

I’m thinking of £100. Is that too much? Not enough?

YABU = too little
YANBU = anything else (just right/too much)

You miserable gits - £100 is a nice round number and I'm sure she'll be very appreciative. To me it's just about the right amount

that would absolutely make her christmas 😍

It depends on a few things really. Do you give holiday pay? If so, then it’s certainly generous. If you don’t, then seems pretty fair to me.

You pay £25 a week, so that would be a whole month's pay! It sounds way too much to me, but I don't even get a bonus in my job, so what do I know?

£100....you must be joking! A box of chocs is my limit!

I suppose £100 doesn't seem much if you are rich! I think that is a lot!

I don't have a cleaner, I have a childminder but I am only giving her a gift cost about £10.

I can't feel I can be generous until I am debt free, our house is falling apart then I've got my pension to worry about. How does everyone do it?

@Interestedwoman you are crazy if you think minimum wage is £10 per hour! The country should be so lucky.

Too much, half that amount is enough.

I think if you have it give them do it. What a lovely generous bonus to receive.

I've had cleaners for years, certainly couldn't afford that sort of tip. Mine get a gift for about £10 and a card.

*If she’s self-employed the minimum wage doesn’t apply.

Morally it does. Shouldn’t be paying a cleaner less than £10 per hr.*

I’m responding to the person who said it was illegal- it isn’t. Of course paying a cleaner less than minimum wage is immoral, although minimum wage is far less than £10. Going rate where I live is £12-14 which seems reasonable.

Its about £2 a week, so I think that is plenty. I would be ecstatic happy with it

I am giving mine 2 weeks off but paying her
So that's a £70 bonus
She will do a deep clean of public rooms on Monday

She makes my life so much easier every week and makes it easier for me to go out and earn

I have mine two weeks wages (70 quid) and a bottle of her favourite perfume (Chanel Chance). I've given her £100 in the past. It's generous but if you like her and she does a good job she's worth it IMO!

That’s really generous of you. I wish more people were like you.

I give an extra week.

£25 per week is great too, mine is £15 an hour... but up to you re the bonus. If you can afford it, why not ??

Up her weekly hours!

Why are people saying too much? How can it be too much unless the OP really can't afford it?

Feeling really bad about the tin of biscuits I brought now

Yes, £100 or more. Then it feels like a bonus and won’t get swallowed up. She will feel appreciated and continue doing a good job.
I know someone who will be receiving about £200 and a nice gift. She doesn’t know it yet tho. She does a very good job and is appreciated.

£100 is lovely and kind gesture. If you can afford it that is perfect.

I think it's excessive
Can I ask how much people spend on their partners /husbands/wives?
We have a £100 limit so as not to go overboard with stuff we don't need so spending 100 on a cleaner seems enormous to me
I don't have a cleaner but dad does and he found out what she likes to drink and bought that
Seems reasonable to me

If you have a good cleaner and you want her to stay then give her a good bonus . God cleaners are hard to come by .
My mum left a job purely because they couldn’t even give her a card and told the lady why she was leaving .

. I don’t know if I’ll be able to afford that amount every year

This would concern me. It sets an expectation. If you then only give half next year, she might be afraid that she has dropped in her estimation.

In our household, in weeks that include public holidays throughout the year, we pay usual rates as holiday pay and then pay again if she chooses to come to us, so either double pay or paid holiday.

Spreads it through the year, too.