To ask how much you pay for your cleaner

[hotchoco]

Can I ask how much you pay for your cleaner and how much work do they do and the size of the home.

£15ph as and when needed, however they are about to add vat so wil be nearer £18ph.

Biggish 3 bed. Greater London.

Looking at the prices I feel like she’s not charging enough so will talk to her about upping it.

£12 an hour. She comes for 3 hours twice a month.
She does 4 bedrooms, kitchen diner, lounge, playroom and 3 bathrooms in 3 hours and she usually finishes a bit earlier, but I'd never begrudge her that.
She honestly whizzes round like super woman and does such an amazing job.

@Northernmummy80

£14.50 an hour for 2 hours a week. Deep cleans two bathrooms and one toilet downstairs then if there is any time left a quick wipe of the kitchen. Honestly she’s a bit slow but the standard is high so I don’t mind as it saves me doing it

This seems crazily slow! How can it take two hours to deep clean 3 bathrooms? I’m presuming the bathrooms aren’t massive with multiple showers, baths etc?

@hotchoco I'm in North Yorkshire friend has a cleaning business charges £12.50 p/h with own products. £20 is a lot!!!!

£60 for 4 hrs once a fortnight

I pay £12ph for two cleaners for 2 hours once a fortnight. So £48 per fortnight in all.

3 bed mid terrace house.

2 hours a fortnight
£15/h
3 bedroom house
Loughbrough, Leics

He is a machine though, my old cleaner was cheaper but nowhere near as good!

Wow, £12 ph for two cleaners is super cheap!

@ThirtyTwo1988

That's per hour per cleaner! So £12 x 2 people x 2 hours.

@mowglika

£10 an hour for 3 hours and she does a 4 bedroom house - hoovering, mopping, dusting and 3 bathroom/toilets. She is a stickler for right angles as well, I love her

Not enough to pay her a living wage though

If you take the minimum wage and add on what holiday pay would be (unless you also pay holiday pay) then she is below the NMW

£80 once a fortnight.

4 beds
2 x baths
1 x Wc
Kitchen
Living room
Hoovers and mops all floors
Changes bedding on rotation

Does a fantastic job. Been with us 20 years.

Berkshire.

Works out around £16/hr but we pay for the job, not the time.

The NMW is £8.72

Self employed people can work for less but get no holiday or sick pay.

Allowing for 28 days holiday including the bank holidays- that leaves 132 non working days and 233 working days.

Not even considering travel between jobs. Let say 7 chargeable hours a day at £10 an hour that is £16,310 a year, at 8 chargeable hours it is £18,610

The NMW is £8.72 but you need to allow for holidays.

So £10 an hour is in fact £8.96 an hour or 24p above the NMW.

So maybe before gloating about how cheap your cleaner is think about being an ethical commissioner.

£9/hr - 3 hours each visit. I write a list each time so work varies. Always bathrooms, kitchen Ams hard floors though.

Location - Hampshire

£15 per hour and I pay for a 2 hourly clean once per fortnight. They do floors, clean kitchen, bathrooms, bins, dusting, make beds, etc.

That’s for a relatively small 3 bed semi in the south west.

@Snally82

£9/hr - 3 hours each visit. I write a list each time so work varies. Always bathrooms, kitchen Ams hard floors though.

Location - Hampshire

So well less than the NMW after allowing for the minimum of 28 day holidays including bank holidays.

@Snally82

£9/hr - 3 hours each visit. I write a list each time so work varies. Always bathrooms, kitchen Ams hard floors though.

Location - Hampshire

Honestly that is not enough. This person cleans your house for £27.

Do you not even round it up to 30?

Hampshire an all.

£15 per hour for 4 hours once a week. She provides her own products. Cleans 4/5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms + downstairs loo. Sitting room and snug, cleans kitchen and mops floor. South East.

I pay mine £30 every week for 2 hrs.
I have 4 bed / 2 bath house.
She does kitchen/ bathrooms / mops floors / hoover small through / dusts

I tidy, but frees up my weekend

I pay £40 for 3 hours. 4/5 bedroom house, but not all of it is done every week.

£20 an hour is far too much

We paid ours £15ph, just gone up to £16 in 2021

@Northernmummy80

£14.50 an hour for 2 hours a week. Deep cleans two bathrooms and one toilet downstairs then if there is any time left a quick wipe of the kitchen. Honestly she’s a bit slow but the standard is high so I don’t mind as it saves me doing it

Also shocked at this. How does it take 2 hours to clean 2 bathrooms and a toilet?

I only have one although it's pretty big, it took me 15 mins today to hoover and clean the toilet (yes, with a loo brush), sink, shower, mirrors and quick wipe of the cupboards. Mop at the end.

A downstairs toilet would be 5 minutes tops. Clean toilet and wipe sink, you even have time to dust in those 5 mins.

I'd expect much more than two bathrooms and a downstairs loo in 2h. That can all be easily done within 45 minutes.

£15 an hour. 2 of them for 2 hours. Through a small company. South East. Seems to be the golng rate round here now.

£12 ph, and then some extra for Christmas. Every other week.

@irregularegular

£15 an hour. 2 of them for 2 hours. Through a small company. South East. Seems to be the golng rate round here now.

£15 each I assume?