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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bigdawg90" data-source="post: 4299113" data-attributes="member: 49831">I’m consistently surprised that people don’t know modern labor rates and how expensive things will be.I don’t think you’re gonna like the people that will come over for $25/hour.  My cleaning lady charges $50/hour and she’s on the rougher side of things.  I do a good clean every year for my wife’s birthday and Mother’s Day.  Our last one cost me $600 and my wife told me to stop doing it.  Lol.  She did a nice job though.Around here a decent monthly clean goes for $250 and probably last 2-3 hours.I have conversations with my older neighbors about this all the time.  I pay my babysitter $25/hour and she’s a 17 y/o.  She’s straight up with us that she clears $50-70/hour waitressing.  She’s only willing to babysit if she doesn’t have a shift.I’m assuming you’re one of those people that will only pay for labor when someone is on-site.  Which means if you’re asking them to drive an hour round trip to you, spend an hour at your house cleaning, they’d be making $12.50/hour.  The only people willing to work for that are criminals and illegals.</blockquote>