To ask how much you pay for a cleaner?

[Saltdoughmuncher]

I’ve been looking at getting a cleaner and have a few quotes but they vary greatly.

How much do you pay per person per hour for non London cleaning? And how many hours would you expect a 4 bed, 3 bath house to take to clean?

I am not a cleaner. I work in retail and get paid minimum wage. No paid holidays, sickness, lunch break. No national insurance paid either. My employer is taking the piss but I like my job

We can have a whole conversation about whether the NMW or NLW is enough or not, but £10 is above the NMW and the NLW.

There are lots of people on NMW who work short shifts and have to use transport to get there. That isn't exclusive to cleaners.
When ds worked in retail, he was paid NMW for U18s, and was commonly given 4 hour shifts, and had to take his train fayre out of that - which used up approx an hour and a half's wage. Just the one example, but it happens a lot in retail, and people who do a shift in a cafe over lunchtime and don't even start me on the poor souls who deliver parcels from internet shopping. There are a LOT of people who have rubbish pay, but you can't say a figure of £10 is less than the NMW.
@pumpandthump - clearly there are people who are going to do an excellent job and people who do an okay job and people who do a poor job, whatever job role you are talking about, but I think you know that what I mean is cleaning is a job that any one of use can do without having to have years of training or years of study. For the 28 years of adult life I've had my own home, when I couldn't afford the luxury of a cleaner, it is a task that I could do myself, without anyone training me to do it. If money tightened up for us next year and I had to let my cleaner go, I once again could do the cleaning, unlike some other things I pay people to do - my mechanic, or my dentist, my plumber or the chap that services the boiler for example. Cleaning is something everyone can do (certain physical difficulties excepted). Therefore, it it something that tends to be a role that isn't so well paid. that's market forces.

5 bed 3 bath & ironing = £12.50 x 4 hrs per week. I’m in a fairly affluent city suburb not in London.

Small cleaning company, just myself, my business partner and 2 staff working for us. We charge £12.50 per hour general cleaning and £14 an hour deep cleaning. It ticks over nicely, the extra on top of the actual 'wage' pays for the cleaning products, insurance and other overheads. I have my AAT level 3, so manage the books myself (along with a few clients accounts - handy extra) We have enough clients to work full time ourselves, plus part time for the one lady that only wanted part time hours. I do charge extra to take ironing home, purely because ironing gives me the rage and it then has to be done in my free time. The quotes you have been given seem ridiculous to me, have a look in your local area. Most cleaners will have a Facebook page with reviews ect, shop around a bit.

£12 ph (4 hours every 2 weeks)

£11 per hour for 3 hrs per week (they charge £12 per hour if you have less than 3 hrs). We have a 5 bed, 4 bathroom house and it's enough including a bit of ironing (a few shirts) but only just.

I'm a cleaner I get minimum wage 8.23 i believe per hour. 2 and a half hrs 5 days a week and I clean an nhs building