What hourly rate do you pay your cleaner?

[LilyMayPlumpington]

I currently pay mine £8 per hour and told her I was going to put her rate up in January to £8.50 per hour. She then told me that her other client increased her pay to £10 per hour!

Am not averse in principle to this (although am not Rockefeller) - but then she's been in for 3 hours today and kitchen floor still has tumbleweed balls of dog hair on it plus a few recognisable dirty marks, and the duvets etc from the kids beds are on their bedroom floors etc (I didn't have time to sort it before rushing out this a.m.)

• this isn't unusual for her...and I'm kind of pondering VFM!

How much do you pay your cleaner per hour (and please specify if you are in London or S.E....I am in Hampshire)

Thanks

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Nobody with a cleaner then?

I guess it's the credit crunch!

I pay £8 an hour. And she's coming at 2 o 'clock. Praise the Lord!!

Is she good then?

Aww, she's my little Polish Angel. I love her. ( I mean she's from Poland, not that she likes Polishing!)

lol

We pay our cleaner £8 per hour and she is a godsend. She also cleans our office once a week and looks after ds one morning a week so we really could not do without her.

We don't pay her when she chooses to go away but when we go on holiday I pay her half or get her to come in anyway while we are away and do stuff she does not have time for otherwise. She does the cleaning, beds and ironing.

I think I should probably give her a pay rise in January.

Would you be prepared to pay a tenner though? And if you were me (given that my cleaner is okay but not fab - see OP) would you pay a tenner?

Yes, if she asked me for a tenner, I would pay her a tenner. That makes me sound dead tight, doesn't it?

I wouldn't pay £8.50 an hour let alone £10 an hour for a service that I wasn't happy with.
Tell her you will give £8.50 an hour when she does the job properly, or pay her enough hours to do all the cleaning and tidying that you want done.