If so, I’m hoping you won’t mind answering a couple questions. Maybe it’s your friend’s housecleaner. Maybe you are a housecleaner yourself. Anyway.
What is the range of rates for a (three-hour) light housecleaning?
If anybody happens to know, what about someone who comes in two or three days a week?
Thanks.
We pay $75.00 for a team of 2-3 to spend an hour cleaning our one bedroom apartment twice a month.
Worth every cent.
I’m in the Netherlands. My cleaning lady comes in 3,5 hours a week, and cleans and irons. I pay her 50 euros, about 65 dollars a week.
I live in England and pay £50 (about $80) a week for:
We have a woman come in once a week to clean for 3 hours. We pay her a little more than we’ve payed others, because she’s pretty much the best housecleaner we’ve ever had. Punctual, works hard, does stuff we don’t ask her to do, and even 3 years after we hired her, she’s doing it as good as the first day she walked in. (That’s been a problem for us - people are great at first, then they taper off until we’re redoing the cleaning ourselves. That’s when we know we need someone else.)
We pay her $80 for 3 hours. I think she started out at $65 for 3 hours, but we try to give her a raise every once in a while.
Best money we spend. I don’t think we technically need her every week, but Mr. Athena likes it and it’s a little luxury we can afford, so we do it.
South Florida.
I have a four bedroom house. I pay $100 once a month to have two people come in and clean it. It takes them three or four hours, I think. I’ve only been here for it once.
Absolutely yes. A woman comes in every other week for 3-4 hours each time for $65. I live alone, but when my husband was alive, I had someone every week.
We have an amazing cleaning woman who cleans our house once every 2 weeks. Vacuums (after straightening up the rooms enough to vacuum), cleans the kitchen (floor, countertops, fridge) and bathrooms, makes the beds, dusts assorted stuff, etc. She and her helper are here ~1.5 hours, based on the occasional times I’ve been home when they’ve cleaned, and we currently pay her $115 a visit. Worth every penny.
Anyone in southern Maryland who is looking for a cleaning person should shoot me a PM for her info, because we highly recommend her. I’m not sure how big a territory she covers, but I know she goes as far north as Bowie, and as far south as central Calvert County.
We have cleaning service come in every 2 weeks. They vacuum, mop floors, dust, clean kitchen counters, and do a few other things. We pay them $120. Well worth the price as the wife and I both work full time with some overtime thrown in.
I’m seriously considering having a lawn service cut the grass next year.
Three-bedroom house in the DC area: $100 every two weeks to a service for a crew of three that gets in and out in less than two hours. No laundry, but they clean the kitchen and the bathrooms, dust and vacuum, take out the trash (we were surprised to see that this includes the diaper genies), and change the bed linen.
We think it’s well worth it, but people have different philosophies. My brother swears that he would never pay anyone to clean his house, whereas that’s the first thing I’d pay for. They never let theirs get as messy as ours in the first place, though, too.
One person, two hours every two weeks. C$20/hour. I recently had one that cost C$25/hour but was more thorough; unfortunately she quit (nothing to do with me - she moved). My current one is definitely acceptable though.
My main reason for having a housecleaner is to give ME the self discipline not to be too messy; I’ve been a slob all my life and knowing that I have to do something about my mess every two weeks before the housecleaner comes makes be behave a bit better. 
ETA I do my own laundry, but I prefer it that way.
I have a cleaner who comes every other week, takes 2-3 hrs, and I pay her $65. She does pretty much everything except dishes, laundry, and litter boxes (bathrooms, kitchen, dust, sweep, mop, makes the bed, occasionally cleans windows). I absolutely love it, I am not high income at all but it is such a big help to me I am willing to budget for it. I hate a dirty house but also hate to clean.
I live in Maryland in a 2 story townhouse and I have a cleaning woman who comes in every two weeks for $80. She works for about 2 hours. She supplies all her own cleaning supplies except for a vacuum. She vacuums, dusts, mops the non-carpeted floors when needed, cleans the bathrooms and kitchen, empties the wastebaskets. She does not change the bed or do the laundry.
I hate to do housekeeping so it’s a godsend to me.
We have a housekeeper every week for about two hours. She vacuums, tidies/organizes, changes linens, cleans counters and bathrooms and does some dishes.
$50 a week.
Extrapolate as you need to: I pay my current cleaning lady, the latest in a string of 11 over the last decade, $125 for 5 hours of cleaning every two weeks, or $250 each month. We’re going on two months with the current one, so we haven’t reached the point when my wife feels comfortable providing a key and secondary alarm code yet, which means we have to be at the house during every cleaning…ugh.
We provide all the cleaning products. She, for reasons I couldn’t care less about, prefers to use her own vacuum rather than our central vac, so she brings hers each time.
Once a month; we keep things up pretty well so she spends 5 hours or so doing what we miss. We pay $100 ($20 an hour is her going rate).
We have a cleaning service, and we pay $85 a cleaning (one person, 3 hours) every other week. I don’t know how much the person actually gets paid. She brings everything – her own cleaning supplies and vacuum.
I live just outside of Boston and I pay $25 an hour to a woman who comes in for four hours a week. I also give her bonuses on her birthday and at Christmas.
My cleaner is thorough and efficient. She’s a maid at a nearby hotel. If you’re looking for a cleaner, I suggest you ask at a hotel near you if there is anyone in the housekeeping department who wants a few extra hours every week. The management may let you put up a notice on the employee bulletin board - that’s how I found my cleaner. Try a large hotel chain such as Marriott or Sheraton or Hilton because they always run police and background checks on their employees.
The woman we use is a friend’s mom. She has an OCD thing, and really enjoys cleaning. We are very happy with her, and accept that there will be times when we are paying her to spend a few hours emptying the fridge, cleaning the fridge and its contents, then replacing the items in “the right way”.
We have a 5-bedroom house near St. Louis - we used to pay $150 to have a team of 2 come to clean weekly. I wouldn’t mind getting them started up once again for every other week, but $150 is just too much to shell out every single week. It sure the heck was nice coming home to a clean house, though.