{"id":74354,"date":"2023-01-20T15:28:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/how-much-should-you-charge-for-housekeeping\/"},"modified":"2023-01-20T15:28:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:28:15","slug":"how-much-should-you-charge-for-housekeeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-ca\/how-much-should-you-charge-for-housekeeping\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Should You Charge for Housekeeping Services?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before accepting a job it is good practice to meet your prospective employer in their home so you can assess the cleaning requirements and determine which tasks you&rsquo;re expected to do, in order to know how much you should charge for your services.<br>&nbsp;<br><strong> <font color=\"#00B8B8\"> When arriving at a quote for the price of a job consider:<\/font><\/strong><\/p><ul><li>Size of the home, usually measured in number of bedrooms and bathrooms.<\/li><p><\/p><li>Frequency of cleaning, will you be required daily, weekly or fortnightly?<\/li><p><\/p><li>How many people and animals live in the house?<\/li><p><\/p><li>General tidiness, is the property safe and easy to move through?<\/li><p><\/p><li>The variety of surfaces to be cleaned: hard floors, carpet, wood and marble work surfaces for instance.<\/li><p><\/p><li>Special tasks, such as cleaning windows or steaming curtains.<\/li><p><\/p><li>Your experience and skills, are you able to tackle more specialist tasks such as oven cleaning?<\/li><p><\/p><li>The number of people employed on the job, will you work alone or with a team?<\/li><p><\/p><li>Whether you will be paid by the job or by the hour.<\/li><\/ul><p>&nbsp;<br><strong> <font color=\"#00B8B8\">  Rough estimates of what to charge for housekeeping services<\/font><\/strong><\/p><ul><li>In large metropolitan areas it is normal for an individual to expect higher rates, with more specialist jobs such as steam-cleaning being charged separately at a set rate. Fees in less urban areas would only be a little less, perhaps starting at $11 per hour.<\/li><p><\/p><li>An agency may charge clients approximately 30% extra to cover administrative fees and other costs with the same amount being paid to the cleaner.<\/li><p><\/p><li>&nbsp;Make sure you run a postcode check on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-ca\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Care.com<\/a> to see what other employers are offering per hour, or what hourly rate other providers are charging.<\/li><\/ul><p>&nbsp;<br><strong> <font color=\"#00B8B8\"> Establishing your fee<\/font><\/strong><\/p><ul><li>Ask other housekeepers in your area how much they charge for cleaning services.<\/li><p><\/p><li>Compare their level of experience with yours.<\/li><\/ul><p>&nbsp;<br>Be prepared to negotiate with prospective employers in order to arrive at a fair price that reflects your skills and experience.<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of housekeeping services depends on a number of factors and can vary widely from one job to another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1404,"featured_media":74355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"enable_toc":false,"care_reviewed_by":0,"care_post_updated_flag":false,"care_updated_date":"","last_update":"2023-01-20","view_count":34,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[450],"tags":[],"member-type":[313],"vertical":[323,326],"platform":[2],"class_list":["post-74354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-garden","member-type-seeker-en-ca","vertical-home-care-en-ca","vertical-home-care-tips-en-ca","platform-resources"],"acf":[],"created":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91349,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74354\/revisions\/91349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74354"},{"taxonomy":"member-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member-type?post=74354"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=74354"},{"taxonomy":"platform","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.care.com\/c\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/platform?post=74354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}