I live in Yokosuka, and found out yesterday that a house-maid in Japan is super cheap! My wife and I hired a maid to come out weekly and she only cost about 8000 Yen ($50), for almost 5 straight hours of work! Our house was deep cleaned and sparkling when i got home from work (We keep it pretty clean and picked up normally, but this was extra and awesome). I encourage anybody who wants that extra clean home, to get a maid, 8k yen for this many hours is simply a steal!
Edit: ok everybody i found out that the lady we hired is Japanese, she runs her own side business and this was the price that she quoted us for 5 hours of work at our house. I didn’t make the price or negotiate lower or anything, I just paid what she asked (also she wouldn’t even take a tip, my wife offered her and she declined, she only took a cold tea due to the weather when she left, we had drinks and snacks for her the whole time and she didn’t take any, I guess she was very strict about her work). My wife found her cleaning service through a friend that also pays for this. I guess she has a full schedule and is doing very well and seems to be a pretty happy lady. You all thinking that i’m participating in some traffiking or slave labor can go do something more productive with your day. good grief.
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Ok.
Feels exploitative at that price
What company did you go with?
The idea of a maid feels so gross, especially since I definitely can’t pay what they actually deserve to be making.
What’s the service name?
> She only cost about 8000 Yen
*She* didn’t cost that amount, she’s a human being.
The service cost that amount. It should cost a lot more, with all or most of it going straight to her.
Where did u find that? I was looking earlier this year and all I could find were maids that cost 2万 per visit
you shouldn’t be proud of this
Yes, it *is* a steal, and nearly a literal one.
I gotta figure out how to make money on this thing, it’s simply tooo good.
Much amaze such wow.
So you get paid 150k USD and are so happy to be paying basement prices for labor that you’re excited to share it with everyone else, while thinking it’s okay to be naming a price on the worker herself instead of her services. Did I get that right? Cool, cool.
Is it just me, or does he seem disgraceful toward the sentence he crafted?
First and foremost, she provided service, and she is not a slave.
I looked into a housekeeping service last year and it was much, much more expensive. Is she self employed or did you use a service? It just seems way too low of a price if she’s contracted.
Yokosuka eh
The worst part is, in Tokyo, there are whole Facebook groups of people basically unwilling to pay about ¥1,500 an hour +¥1,000 for transport, for a cleaner or a babysitter. That was the standard rate YEARS ago yet people seem unwilling to recognise that the cost of living has increased… all the while complaining that they “can’t afford” to raise the wage of the people that keep their lives in order and care for their children.
Is she insured? What if she gets injured? How about liability if something is damaged or stolen? Is she freelance working for cash? If she is through a service then I guess you’d have coverage but then her wages are crap. If something is too cheap, there’s usually a reason why. Either she’s being exploited or you are risking being held responsible for any accidental injury, etc.
Op has done more in 15 years than most do in a lifetime.. Op knows stuff lmao
itt redditors trip over themselves to pay double because clearly the poor poor maid is being exploited and doesn’t know any better.
This post is ambiguously phrased.
The person is paying 8k for “almost 5 hours” for a maid to “come out weekly”. Now the phrasing is ambiguous, but I think it means that the maid comes 4 or 5 times a month for an hour. That’s about 1,600 to 2,000 yen an hour. Considerably better than convenience store work.
What I’ve seen with many freelancers like this is that they’ll have 6 or 7 customers in a single apartment building (not a difficult trick) and they’ll work a standard 8 hour day going from apartment to apartment making 12,000 to 14,000 a day (but paid in monthly chunks).
Times 20 days a month = 240,000 to 280,000 a month, less the cost of cleaning supplies and wear and tear on equipment.
Now that’s not great money, but it beats convenience store work, and is up there with what a lot of eikaiwa teachers are making with a college degree.
It also might figure out considerably better than most people if this person is doing this as a “cash under the table” side-hustle and is someone’s dependant who is receiving health coverage from the main breadwinner and is doing this as a “top up”.
To those who think this is an unrealistic interpretation, there are several government subsidised maid services for the elderly that do exactly this sort of thing at cheaper rates. A maid comes by once a week for an hour to do a quick sweep of the house, a wellnesss check, and the elderly person pays a token amount (I’ve seen amounts varying from 600 yen to 800yen). I’m not sure how much the maid service gets in government subsidies, but it’s probably not a lot more than this person is getting.
Three cheers for the exploitation of cheap local labor by a foreign military member…. I guess? Yea it’s a steal, literally.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying pay more than they are asking for but to go around online celebrating how you’re saving a few bucks while – apparently – making a $150K salary…and to encourage others to also take advantage of this… wow. Very tone deaf and insensitive. This sort of mentality makes me sick.
My mansion has a cleaning service. Runs 11k for cleaning every week and I am really happy. It’s much cleaner than comparable services back in my former country of residence at like half the price.
Still remember getting a maid in Germany at roundabout 3000 JPY per hour just for her to come without cleaning supplies and leave after 4 hours with the flat clean on a surface level but, for example, corners behind doors left dusty.
In comparison Japan is dirt cheap but much, much better results.
Sounds like you are a slavewage scumbag.
where do you find a housekeeper?
Wow. People like to judge. Especially in this thread.