what does a house keeper cost?
I feel like I have been paying too much for house cleaner. 150.00 for 3 floors in a townhouse. she cleans @ 4 to 5 hours, and I pay her cash. Does anyone have any rec? thanks
I feel like I have been paying too much for house cleaner. 150.00 for 3 floors in a townhouse. she cleans @ 4 to 5 hours, and I pay her cash. Does anyone have any rec? thanks
We have someone in every other week for about 6 hours and pay her $125 to clean 2 floors of our brownstone. We have a kid and a dog and a garden so it gets pretty messy.
She is a student learning english as a second language (her english is pretty good already) and her school fees have gone up. She’s looking for more work; you can email me at ripley at me dot com and I can share her contact info if you need help around the house.
Bolder, that sounds nice, though cleaners generally make $20 an hour, not $30, but the problem is finding 20 clients every month.
I used to pay mine 60 bucks to clean two floors of a townhouse. She was here about 5 hours. I’m doing the cleaning myself now because she just had a baby. She set the price and I thought that was fair since it was tax free. We are here in Bay Ridge and I’m not sure it it makes a difference becuase when we lived in PS my neighbors were paying 60 bucks to clean their 1000square foot apt.
Who knows?
Eh, sounds more than fair to me, Montrose. That’s $30-35 per hour, most likely tax free. If she can squeeze in 2 houses a day, she’s taking home over $1,000 a week without contributing one cent to the common weal. “Not getting rich”? Not starving, either.
That’s $50 a floor to do dirty, backbreaking work you don’t want to do. If the person is good, I’d consider it money well spent. They certainly are not getting rich. Please pay people a living wage for an honest days work. I do not think you are overpaying in the least. If anything, they probably deserve that and more.
i used she referring to the house cleaner.
she?
huh.
hmmmm, thanks. did you hire your person from a company or was she an independent contractor?
Huh. I used to pay $60 every two weeks for someone who cleaned a tiny space (650 sf) for three hours and did a wonderful job. More recently I paid $60 every two weeks for someone to clean an 800-plus sf place. I think they spent maybe an hour and half, not sure. My issue is not so much the cost as the damage of floors, furniture, art work, etc., whether through carelessness or overzealousness.