Our cleaner is retiring . We pay her £15 ph and have since she started 2 years ago. We provide the cleaning stuff and I pay her a Christmas bonus and buy her a thank you gift also each year. Truthfully she is quite slow and very unreliable but I really like her so we’ve kept her on. I also trust her. Anyway she’s retiring so I’ve been getting quotes for new cleaners. Current cleaner used to do 4 hours and then because of age reduced to 3 hours a week (but as I say often doesn’t come but we’ve been fine with that!)
quotes I’ve had:
£16 p/h solo cleaner
£25 p/h solo cleaner (doesn’t bring cleaning stuff)
£24 p/h - agency so will be reliable and bring own stuff.
£20 p/h solo (not agency)
im interested to know what the going rate is atm for cleaning. I’m in the north west (suburb of Manchester). £25 per hour seems a lot for a solo cleaner who doesn’t provide the cleaning materials? Also then i thought maybe £16 is a bit low? I don’t want to underpay someone but really felt like £25 seems very high and wondered what others are paying?
for reference none of these people have visited the house, so this is just their quoted rate. It’s not posh but we live in a relatively nice area and I’m wondering if people just see the location and quote high. But our house is modest.