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Tipping home cleaners?
I had a post earlier about the Professional Home Cleaning company, they are coming this weekend. Anyone have cleaners who work for a company clean for them? Do you tip the cleaners/ what do you tip the cleaners? It is a coupon deal so I only paid $86 and they have to come twice. I asked the man on the phone what it would regularly cost, which I think confused him since he seemed to have lengthy process to get an official quote. I think he finally got that I was using it to base the tip amount for the discounted services. He said it would be about double. The two of us were not communicating that well, but I think he meant $170 per time (which seems high to me).
So, 2-3 people are coming to do the cleaning?.what would be reasonable to leave them? I would guess it should be cash and probably given in smaller bills so they can divide it equally (incase I am not home when they leave).
Just a curiosity question, if you hire a self employed cleaner do you tip them? I assume no since you are paying them the price they determine they need to be paid.
Re: Tipping home cleaners?
I don't tip my self-employed house cleaner, because she already charges fair living wages for her work (I did, however, give her a little tip/gift for the holidays).
The only time I've used cleaners that were employed by a larger company was when a friend purchased a one-time cleaning for me as a wedding gift, and yes, I did tip them. There were three cleaners, and they were there for three hours or so, and I tipped them $30... no idea if that was reasonable or not (especially since I don't know what the cleaning cost), but they seemed very grateful.
we don't tip our cleaning lady but we gave her $100 for christmas. she works through a service (Maid Especially for You) but we still feel like she's already getting paid to do her job so we don't pay her extra.