sir recorder

What is the rate of pay for a House Cleaner in PT?

€5, €6, €7 euros per hour?

ouriquejan

Around here it's 6 euros an hour.

bejaboz

We pay 8€ but they do more than just clean the house.

Also, we are an hour north of the Algarve, so the rates are not directly comparible.

s5tuart

My friends have a villa in Luz (Porto Dona Maria) and pay €8 per hour.
That includes all cleaning, and also changing beds and towels all year round (6 months lets, 6 months owner occupied) and taking/returning linen to the cleaners.

scott909

We pay ours 10 euros an hour, but she has been with us for 3 years and is unbelievably helpful, reliable and a nice lady, so we rewarded her with a pay rise a few months ago from 7 euros an hour to 10.

Troia

That has been incredible nice and honest of you!

Arkright

Are you all for real the rate for cleaning should be 14e an hour, the rates mentioned are slave rates.

Troia

That will be more than a teacher or a high-end civil servant gets

bejaboz

I think the questions is, are you living in the real world in PT? In small towns the Portuguese business owners pay low rates to their staff for quite responsible jobs. It's called the market rate.

A guy I know who works for GALP in a fuel service station only earns 500€ a month and works up to 10 hours a day, 6 days a week.

s5tuart

14 euro an hour is more than a nurse earns............

liveaboard

I only get 10 for steel work, and I pay 8 for a skilled mason who works like a horse.
14 an hour; I'll clean your house for you!

Mrs titleist

I earn between 8 and 10 an hour

Supremegermalene

Most of our cleaners are paid 7.50 - 8 an hour though the majority of them are on contracts and paid monthly so in the winter they don't have much to do but in the summer they have to work all hours requested.

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sir recorder

A hundred years ago a Mrs Beetons would have advised householders just how much to pay for these kinds of service.

Many Expat householders seem to be paying way over the rate for what is basically unskilled labour, although a reasonable proportion of travel to work needs to be taken into account, unless you are employing for a full 8 hours work on the day the cleaner is engaged.

Loyalty seems to add to wage rate, at the discretion of the employer, though loyalty as a factor is not well-defined.

bejaboz

Other factors that should be taken into account are reliability, honesty and integrity.

Also if not a resident, someone who cleans and prepares a house for the owners/visitors, lays out towels, linen and makes the beds up ready for arrival etc, although they might not be considered highly skilled, they are worth what an owner is prepared to pay for the service as well as peace of mind.