How much do you pay your cleaner?
How much do you pay your cleaner?
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Mr MXT

Original Poster:

7,749 posts

299 months

Thursday 6th March
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Whats the going rate for a domestic cleaner (in the north) these days?

We've just moved and our new cleaner has just put her prices up from £15ph to £20ph... seems a bit punchy to me?

Cow Corner

575 posts

46 months

Thursday 6th March
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We don’t have a cleaner, but considering the minimum wage is just about to go up to £12.21 an hour, and they will have travel and other material costs on top of that, it doesn’t seem ridiculous rate for somebody self employed.

Danm1les

941 posts

156 months

Thursday 6th March
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We pay £16.00 per hour, 2 hours every other week. We are south east.

bogie

16,772 posts

288 months

Thursday 6th March
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£13 p/h for 3.5hrs per week in Notts

Peterpetrole

777 posts

13 months

Thursday 6th March
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£20 / hour for two hours in Lovejoy country, bit punchy but she does a good job with her own stuff

Edited by Peterpetrole on Thursday 6th March 11:33

FlyVintage

189 posts

7 months

Thursday 6th March
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£12.00 ph in Kent and I’ve just realised that’s below national living wage now. I’m guessing she’ll increase her charges soon.

Edited to add that we provide all the supplies, so appears artificially low.

Edited by FlyVintage on Thursday 6th March 13:50

768

16,910 posts

112 months

Thursday 6th March
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I think we pay about £18-20/hr, 3-4 hours a week. Uses her own stuff, does a great job with a house with three feral kids in.

Mogsmex

513 posts

251 months

Thursday 6th March
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was £15 an hour, 2 hrs a week in the south east

we then moved house and dont have one now, really miss her bow


krisdelta

4,637 posts

217 months

Thursday 6th March
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South East; £20p/h using own materials (their choice!) - seems eminently reasonable vs min wage + travel etc.

OMITN

2,726 posts

108 months

Thursday 6th March
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£16 per person hour in the North West.

Quags

1,630 posts

277 months

Thursday 6th March
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£20p/h for two hours, does a four bed house.

rdjohn

6,729 posts

211 months

Thursday 6th March
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£30 for 2-hours per week. East Cheshire.

I think that we will be paying more before the year is out.

gtidriver

3,594 posts

203 months

Thursday 6th March
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£15 per hour 6hours a month Ramsgate area.

alscar

6,502 posts

229 months

Thursday 6th March
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South East - £16ph.

Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area

7,264 posts

205 months

Thursday 6th March
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£16.50/hour in the NW for a 3-4 hour clean inc materials

GetCarter

30,207 posts

295 months

Thursday 6th March
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We've had cleaners in the past, (more time on our hands now, so no longer needed), and the simple question was "How much do you charge?"

Whatever they said, I doubled it.

Cleaning other people's houses is a st job, and deserving of good wages.

I never regretted it, (and always had a really clean house).. and we have made good friends with 'cleaners', one of whom was financing a phD from said work, another studying to be a vet.

Still in touch with one, 25 years later. smile

Big Pants

546 posts

157 months

Thursday 6th March
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London - put her rates up this week from £15 to £16 ph.

Worth every penny.

Pistom

5,934 posts

175 months

Thursday 6th March
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£94 +VAT for a holiday let which typically takes about 3 man hours to clean.

Deep Thought

37,798 posts

213 months

Thursday 6th March
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Mr MXT said:
Whats the going rate for a domestic cleaner (in the north) these days?

We've just moved and our new cleaner has just put her prices up from £15ph to £20ph... seems a bit punchy to me?
We were paying £15 an hour, but we'd a couple in a row who were fairly unreliable.

Latest one charges £20 an hour, here two hours at a time. Punctual and pings the weekend before with a proposed time and day. Hasnt been late yet, let alone cancelled.

I think £20 an hour is going to become the norm to be honest. I guess when you factor in travel and supplies, they're not far off minimum wage.

DaveyBoyWonder

3,216 posts

190 months

Thursday 6th March
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Yorkshire - just put their prices up to £20 p/h