What do you pay your maid/cleaner?
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ours is paid 20AED per hour. my flatmate has a friend who works at a nearby hotel, and the cleaner [don't want to call ours, a guy, a maid!] works there. he comes by twice a week after his hotel shift.
from a previous thread, i believe 30,000 will get you a live-in including flight/visa etc. and the normal hourly rate through a cleaning co will be 30-35AED/hr.
from a previous thread, i believe 30,000 will get you a live-in including flight/visa etc. and the normal hourly rate through a cleaning co will be 30-35AED/hr.
I pay mine 1500 a month, and give her 100 every Thursday so she can get a cab to her mates (as we live in the middle of nowhere). She's ok, but annoys me. To be fair, she works hard but Mrs C won't let her cook (as she likes to) and has recently banned her from further ruining our clothes so puts the washing on herself. Don't really need her anymore!
Chilli said:
I pay mine 1500 a month, and give her 100 every Thursday so she can get a cab to her mates (as we live in the middle of nowhere). She's ok, but annoys me. To be fair, she works hard but Mrs C won't let her cook (as she likes to) and has recently banned her from further ruining our clothes so puts the washing on herself. Don't really need her anymore!
Sounds like you need to switch - friends had similar issues, and replaced the Maid (new Maid was friend of a friend's Maid) - and she was 10 x better for the same money.Seemed to work that if the Maid thought you were a push over, they just did less and less.
Mattt said:
Sounds like you need to switch - friends had similar issues, and replaced the Maid (new Maid was friend of a friend's Maid) - and she was 10 x better for the same money.
Seemed to work that if the Maid thought you were a push over, they just did less and less.
Well, she works well enough, but just says "Yes Sir" all the time when it's clear she doesn't understand a word. I would replace her, but it's such a hasstle and an expense to get another one.Seemed to work that if the Maid thought you were a push over, they just did less and less.
jeez, i make that out to be less than £3k a year.
not being judgemental, but i reckon you guys with live in maids must need to block that fact out of your conscience.
i don't think i could deal with live-in help, it'd feel unnerving having someone there all the time who works for you and does whatever asked. unless she's fit, obviously.
not being judgemental, but i reckon you guys with live in maids must need to block that fact out of your conscience.
i don't think i could deal with live-in help, it'd feel unnerving having someone there all the time who works for you and does whatever asked. unless she's fit, obviously.
shirt said:
jeez, i make that out to be less than £3k a year.
not being judgemental, but i reckon you guys with live in maids must need to block that fact out of your conscience.
i don't think i could deal with live-in help, it'd feel unnerving having someone there all the time who works for you and does whatever asked. unless she's fit, obviously.
You get used to it. She spends most of her time in her room, so we don't even know she's there, as it is next to the kitchen/back door! Every now and then she strolls past with a pile of ironing to put away.not being judgemental, but i reckon you guys with live in maids must need to block that fact out of your conscience.
i don't think i could deal with live-in help, it'd feel unnerving having someone there all the time who works for you and does whatever asked. unless she's fit, obviously.
She did catch me in the shower once...I was drying myself and she just stood there staring. When I clocked her, she said "Sorry sir, thought you were at work"....but she still just stood there!
To be fair to her, so did Mrs C when she so me in the raw...as would most women I guess.
shirt said:
jeez, i make that out to be less than £3k a year.
not being judgemental, but i reckon you guys with live in maids must need to block that fact out of your conscience.
i don't think i could deal with live-in help, it'd feel unnerving having someone there all the time who works for you and does whatever asked. unless she's fit, obviously.
That's about what a maid gets here in Singapore too! Remember it is double anything that most can earn back home, they get full bed and board and usually the accommodation is better than they had.not being judgemental, but i reckon you guys with live in maids must need to block that fact out of your conscience.
i don't think i could deal with live-in help, it'd feel unnerving having someone there all the time who works for you and does whatever asked. unless she's fit, obviously.
We dont have a maid here as it's just two of us but a cleaner comes around regularly, but most maids. Have met do not want to go home, as the life is better here, even down to the work.
Never bang the maid, I have witnest so many train wreak situations because the bloke fancied a bit of LBFM.
You must be powerfully built....
Had 3 full time house staff in India, you pay them even less than here, but over there unemployment is very high.
We treat our maid as a human being (1 day off a week, sometimes buy here a ticket to the theatre when the lad is on stage, take her to get new glasses etc), this way she is happier and works better. When she first arrived 4 years ago she couldn't believe that she actually had here own room as we think she thought she would get a roll up bed for the floor.
You get used to not walking around the house in your boxer shorts scratching your brains first thing in the morning. The advantage of having a full time maid is that you get more time to spend doing things for the wife and of course DIY / fixing things is still the mans job.
Had 3 full time house staff in India, you pay them even less than here, but over there unemployment is very high.
We treat our maid as a human being (1 day off a week, sometimes buy here a ticket to the theatre when the lad is on stage, take her to get new glasses etc), this way she is happier and works better. When she first arrived 4 years ago she couldn't believe that she actually had here own room as we think she thought she would get a roll up bed for the floor.
You get used to not walking around the house in your boxer shorts scratching your brains first thing in the morning. The advantage of having a full time maid is that you get more time to spend doing things for the wife and of course DIY / fixing things is still the mans job.
LBFM?
if anyone's maid needs banging, i will consider it....
what does a shop/restaurant worker earn here? i guess being a maid is preferable to that, and it's not exactly skilled work is it?
the only pay i'm aware of other than mine at work is our security guards who are paid 7000AED/mth. i thought that was good for what they do.
if anyone's maid needs banging, i will consider it....
what does a shop/restaurant worker earn here? i guess being a maid is preferable to that, and it's not exactly skilled work is it?
the only pay i'm aware of other than mine at work is our security guards who are paid 7000AED/mth. i thought that was good for what they do.
Lowest of the low are the labourers at circa 600-800 per month. I discussed this with some Indian colleagues once and their view was that if you were one of ten million wallahs living on nothing in the slums of Dehli or some village which is not connected to the outside world by anything other than a path you would jump at it as a couple of years would buy you a scrub of land and pay for your children's education and health care.
Maids are generally amongst the lower paid people, along with cleaners and landscapers at around 1-1.5k per month plus board and lodgings. Chain shop workers generally have good english so will be in the 2-2.5k ish range.
Taxi drivers, bus drivers etc technically have a skill so about 3-3.5k. Security is actually fairly well controlled in that you have to be an ex-Police General to own, or be the local owning share holder, in a firm. As it is a boys club money-making-scheme prices are fixed and you need to pay 5.5-6k per guard.
The key to getting your head around the differences here is that it is racially stratified but everybody generally does better than if they were elsewhere - you need to compare what you get compared to your own, not compared to others here.
Takes some getting used to but makes sense. One of my chums did a year in Nepal recently and they point out the nicer 'Dubai houses' as they're built on wages sent home. They all want the opportunity and will actually pay to get it. We audit our recruiters to ensure that they do not take jewellery, animals and the like as payment for a role as we pay them for that. Admittedly some people do get stiched up but the vast majority have a better life here and want to stay.
When we opened the Metro there was discussion about whether a brit firm could be comfortable housing four in a two bed apartment so some of the HR bods asked the staff who got here first. They laughed as at home their whole family lives in one room!
You can't apply British standards to everything. Not only is it just not needed but it isn't actually appropriate - massive learnig point for me.
Sorry, just realised that's a bit of a long one!
Maids are generally amongst the lower paid people, along with cleaners and landscapers at around 1-1.5k per month plus board and lodgings. Chain shop workers generally have good english so will be in the 2-2.5k ish range.
Taxi drivers, bus drivers etc technically have a skill so about 3-3.5k. Security is actually fairly well controlled in that you have to be an ex-Police General to own, or be the local owning share holder, in a firm. As it is a boys club money-making-scheme prices are fixed and you need to pay 5.5-6k per guard.
The key to getting your head around the differences here is that it is racially stratified but everybody generally does better than if they were elsewhere - you need to compare what you get compared to your own, not compared to others here.
Takes some getting used to but makes sense. One of my chums did a year in Nepal recently and they point out the nicer 'Dubai houses' as they're built on wages sent home. They all want the opportunity and will actually pay to get it. We audit our recruiters to ensure that they do not take jewellery, animals and the like as payment for a role as we pay them for that. Admittedly some people do get stiched up but the vast majority have a better life here and want to stay.
When we opened the Metro there was discussion about whether a brit firm could be comfortable housing four in a two bed apartment so some of the HR bods asked the staff who got here first. They laughed as at home their whole family lives in one room!
You can't apply British standards to everything. Not only is it just not needed but it isn't actually appropriate - massive learnig point for me.
Sorry, just realised that's a bit of a long one!
it was written down, someone from HR left some forms in the canteen and i couldn't help but find them interesting 
hitch, i hear what you're saying and have had similar conversations with the indians and fillipinos at work. they seem to think it's us who have the bum deal as we only get 2-3times what we can earn back home whereas for them is 10-20 times. i also maintain that if i had to send the same proportion of earnings home that they do, i'd also be living in sharjah and getting the bus to work!
i just couldn't pay someone £3k a year for that amount of labour. i am still new here though
i can also virtually guarantee i'd f
k the maid [in fact, i'd prob put an ad up in the rattler] so it's probably for the best that i have such strangely allocated morals.
hitch, i hear what you're saying and have had similar conversations with the indians and fillipinos at work. they seem to think it's us who have the bum deal as we only get 2-3times what we can earn back home whereas for them is 10-20 times. i also maintain that if i had to send the same proportion of earnings home that they do, i'd also be living in sharjah and getting the bus to work!
i just couldn't pay someone £3k a year for that amount of labour. i am still new here though
i can also virtually guarantee i'd fk the maid [in fact, i'd prob put an ad up in the rattler] so it's probably for the best that i have such strangely allocated morals.I pay 1600 per month, includes a 3 room 'house' in the back garden with wifi.
Also includes medical, visa and a flight home or equivalent every year.
Fridays off.
For that I get my clothes ruined and my stuff moved/broken.
I also pay 500 per month for a gardener and 500 per month for a pool cleaner.
Time for a shake-up methinks....
Also includes medical, visa and a flight home or equivalent every year.
Fridays off.
For that I get my clothes ruined and my stuff moved/broken.
I also pay 500 per month for a gardener and 500 per month for a pool cleaner.
Time for a shake-up methinks....
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