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 Originally Posted by The Bean Counter
£13.50 ph is about double the UK minimum wage, which seems high. I think cleaners are paid a little bit more than minimum wage though to reflect the travel time/costs they incur for only working 2-3 hour shifts.
I definitely want them to do everything apart from tidying up. I just think life is too short to spend it doing chores if you can help it, but £13.50 is about that point where I think I should do it myself. It also feels a bit dirty to pay somebody to do something you're perfectly capable of doing yourself too, but I'm sure I'd get over that soon enough!
That feels more to me like some fucked up view of power, as if you think you're better than the people cleaning but not comfortable with that. If you want someone to clean your house & are paying them to do so & they're ok with the job then there is no problem, especially if you're not a dick (which I can't see you being).
If your time is more valuable than the cost of paying a cleaner then it makes perfect sense and the cleaner benefits as a result.
AFAIK cleaners at schools/offices etc get paid between £7-8 an hour, I'd imagine people going into peoples homes get paid ever so slightly more. This is Manchester prices, dunno how it differs across the country.
Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
EDIT: IDK if it's true, but I'd be more paranoid of getting my stuff stolen if the person coming into my home was only earning minimum wage.
You make sure you don't leave valuable shit lying around. If you make it easy for people it's going to happen, it's human nature.
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