How Much....

[cupotee2]

Not sure what topic to put this in but as its a general query maybe here is as good as any...

How much would you expect to pay a person to do a spot of house cleaning a few hours a week...please.

[Caran]

The going rate here is £10 per hour.

[Georgiesmum]

I pay mine £10 an hour but some charge more.

[ummmm]

Agree with the above...plus you supply the cleaning products.

[jno]

and rush around cleaning the place before the cleaner arrives because you don't want her thinking you're a dirty trollop :-(

[craft1948]

I pay mine £12.50 an hour which includes doing the ironing...

[joggerjayne]

I'm sure it varies from area to area.

I pay Olive weekly, but I suppose it works out at about £15-20/hr

But Olive brings in shopping for me, cooks and freezes food, keeps a check on the flat when I'm away at my BF's. She's very good.

[Buenchico]

Domestic cleaning jobs are generally advertised at around £6.50 to £7.50 per hour around here but people who advertise their services as cleaners seem to want £8 to £10 per hour. However this is very much a low-pay area. (I know a big firm that employs a graduate graphic designer, with post-grad training and several years experience, to head up their advertising team, at under £7.50 per hour. Indeed, many vacancies for experienced graduates here offer only around £7 to £8 per hour).

[ummmm]

That's mad, Chris, my 17 year old son earns that.

[-Talbot-]

Don't most domestic cleaners work on the side?

A tenner sounds like good money for what is entailed.

[Buenchico]

That's just the way it is in Suffolk, Ummmm.

I've seen an advert for staff in a (fairly large) new shop. The 'ordinary' staff were just offered the minimum wage. The supervisors were offered an extra 2p per hour. (Don't spend it all at once, guys!!!) The manager's job (requiring him to be a keyholder, work unsocial hours and do all the book-keeping, including the VAT returns) was offered at a massive 10p per hour above minimum wage.

[ummmm]

Jeez...Who would take on that for an extra 10p....