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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
I've never worked in a place that had cleaners whose only job was to vacuum the floor. I can't imagine any office I've ever worked in, spending $15,000 on a vacuum, and still need humans to wash the toilets and counters and sinks in the bathroom, sanitize the front desk, empty all the waste baskets and refill them with bags, bring the trash down to the compactor and run the compactor, clean any windows between the foyer and the front office, sweep and mop all floors that don't have carpeting, shake out the rain mats...
Seems like a huge waste of money to me. But then, I vacuum my own house, I don't hire cleaners to clean my house for me, and if I did, I'd make them vacuum AND do the rest of the cleaning, for a set rate and not an hourly wage. If they can get the job done faster, then that'd mean their hourly pay was higher. If they are slow, then their hourly pay ends up being smaller. If it takes a two-person crew a half hour to clean my house and I pay them $50 for the visit, then they're getting $25 each. If they do 5 houses that day, they're earning $125/day. If they do that 5 days a week, that's $650/week. Four weeks a month is $2600/month. Not too shabby for a part-time gig in Florida.
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A person who cleans 5 houses a day 5 days a week deserves significantly more than your measly $25 bc they have to supply cleaning supplies and they lose a lot of time traveling & they pay travel costs from one job to the next. $32,500 is below the federal poverty level for good reason. They get no paid vacations or sick time, no pension or social security, and cleaning is very hard on the body’s skin, joints, lungs, etc. so that stream of income will be unreliable long term. If they get hurt doing the job, there’s no workman’s comp. Or disability. Most never report income to IRS & most misers do not report the payments as income on a 1099 as you are legally required, so they can’t prove their own income for SSI or SSDI.Would YOU clean 5x2=10 dirty toilets every day for what you pay them? Of course you wouldn’t!