Wage for 14 year old, any ideas?

[Fuckingfuckssake]

A friend is proposing to offer some work to my DD and her friends helping to clean holiday lets, they are all desperate to work and very few employers will consider them at this age, we’ve no idea what is a reasonable amount to pay? NMW doesn’t kick in until 16 as I understand it.

Will her insurance allow for this?

Yes, she’s checked into the legalities.

A friend’s dd gets £5 per hour coaching a sports club under adult supervision.

I don’t know many teens who would clean non-stop or effectively so I’d offer £5 an hour with a performance bonus per property cleaned of £10 (if it was properly cleaned to my specification)

@Yootoo I cleaned holiday lets as a teen (from age 14). We were all of a similar age and cleaned to a very high spec (5* holiday apartments). Of course teens can do a thorough job if they’re taught how to do it properly and managed in such a way that they understand that this is a job and as such are expected to behave and perform to an appropriate standard.
BTW I was paid £3.50 an hour - in 1995. It felt like a fortune at the time.

£12.21 per hour. Why should she be paid any less than you would be for doing exactly the same job? I accept that it's reasonable to pay less during a training period, which for this type of job can't be more than a week surely? I do wonder why NMW has not been challenged as age discrimination. If someone does a job for me, I pay them fairly, no matter their age

Minimum wage for 16-17 year olds is currently £7.55

I am a firm believer in a wage for the job not for wage for age. As long as the work is done to the standard required.