$100 per square foot for cleaning? If you have a 2,000sf house, that's $200,000. I'd not tip a damn dime!

That'd come pretty close to cleaning out one's bank account as well, wouldn't it?

How much per sq. ft. for that side-job?

Do they get a mortgage on the house?

o j

Even a dollar a square foot is way more than one pays in my area. For a mid size home of maybe 1200 sf, deep cleans are around $300. They are supposed to do a great job on a one time deep clean, I don't think a tip is necessary.

Wow - do you really mean $100 per square foot? Hopefully you just forgot a decimal point. But in any case, I don't think I'd tip. If you're going to have them regularly and it's the same individual cleaner(s), perhaps tipping some at Christmas or something like that.

I should really look before I submit! Lol I am having them clean 3600 square feet for $360. There are areas that I don’t want cleaned. Depending on the job will determine if they come back.

I tip 20 percent for house cleaners who are not self employed. You are getting a really good deal for deep cleaning. I pay a similar amount for a regular weekly cleaning.

That's 10 cents per square foot.

It's traditional to pay a cleaning service per hour worked. If that's 9 worker hours, that would be $40 per hour, which is high even if in my high cost of living area. We pay a fixed amount that works out to about $30-$35 per hour.

A deep clean is, in theory, no more difficult than a regular periodic cleaning. It simply involves more tasks and takes more time.

For the last several years, we've used a family business that comes every other week that's staffed by family and friends. It was referred to us by two sets of friends who have used them for many years. They told us they don't tip the workers and so we don't either. We give the workers a holiday gift at year end.

We pay $30 per person hour worked for a house that's 30% bigger. Should a bigger house be more per hour, I don't know. There's an effect (that we see for most services) of prices being goosed upward because of the neighborhood we live in. I don't know but I don't think our cleaners do that. The owners are honest and fair, our friends' houses are smaller but they pay the same hourly rate (though our house takes longer and we pay more for that reason).

I get so confused with stuff like this. What service providers expect a tip and which ones do not? I have zero problem with tipping if its expected,but I do not think I would think to tip a house cleaner,except around Christmas. But 40 bucks an hour? To clean? If it really costs that much (or even 25 or 30 an hour ) I would not think to tip as well. Unless it's a large company,which likely pays its workers peanuts,then I might slip them something. I am contradicting myself. Again, so confusing.

Sorry I am no help. If I were cleaning someones house for that much i would not expect a tip but i wouldn't be upset about it either.

I also would not be inclined to tip. I don't know how many workers, how long etc they will be there, but all in all I don't think I would tip. If they do a great job and you are thrilled and they are lovely and all that, I would think any tip you give would be appreciated. ($seriously, like $5 or $10 to the workers should be well received).

I've never tipped my cleaning people. They were individuals-- not companies.

At Christmas, I would give them a bonus, double whatever their charge was.

I hired a cleaning woman for my parents, when their health got to the point they needed help. We paid by the hour, not the square footage of the house.

We did give her a Christmas bonus every year, but we did not tip her on a weekly basis.

If you like the work they do, hiring them the next time you need some extra cleaning would be a big enough tip in my mind. Mind you, as much as I'd love one, I've never had the luxury of hiring a cleaning person.