[nat1]

Hi

Was just wondering how many of you pay your cleaners a petrol allowance?

If you are paying staff between £6.20 - 6.50ph would you say this is something they would expect?

Thanks Guys


Nat

[brianbarber]

Yes, at those hourly rates


MrB

[Pristine Clean]

We don't! Unless it is right out the way.....in the sticks

And not many small or large companies pay petrol allowance either.

Many years ago before I started my company, I was working for a few companies cleaning and I never received petrol allowance at all and I was on minimum wage. Plus only a few hours a day.

For you to earn anything... as in profit you will need to build that into your quotation.

As a business you have to differentiate between being business minded and being too kind.  

Why don't you try test the waters... telephone up cleaning businesses that are advertising jobs in your area and when you get to speak to a member ask them if they pay petrol allowance. 99.9 will tell you NO!

You can pay petrol if you want to... like to attract staff if you are finding it difficult to get staff

If you are not dealing with commercial offices and are cleaning residential houses. Then I would say if they are travelling over 20 miles a day then Pay petrol allowance after the first 20 miles per day. Every one has to travel to work by car, by train, by bus - not everyone gets allowance unless its a perk of the job...and company car

People working part time in tesco's or sainsburys dont get petrol or travel allowance and have to get there some how...

All the best

Dave

[Paolo]

If the cleaner is at 1 site, definitely not.

Multi site, has to considered.

[nat1]

Thank you for the replys. 

It will be domestic cleans and they will not exceed 20 miles per day, it will probaly be two jobs a day and they will be situated no more than 3/5 miles apart. 

With regards too pay, is £6.20-£6.50 considered too low to pay staff?  I charge domestic customers around the £13.50ph mark, I provide all materials and with insurance, holiday pay etc I could not really afford to go much higher with staff wages, I was also thinking at this figure I could at least increase the wage over a period of time.

Many thanks

Nat

[Adam P]

seems low to me but i'm not too experienced in what other companies pay staff for domestic. all i know if 6 years ago i was getting £7 per hour for commercial cleaning. with inflation i don't even know what they'd work out to be.

[Pristine Clean]

seems low to me but i'm not too experienced in what other companies pay staff for domestic. all i know if 6 years ago i was getting £7 per hour for commercial cleaning. with inflation i don't even know what they'd work out to be.

Its very easy to get guidelines on what staff are being paid.

Just look on line at your job centre. Most cleaning companies are paying minimum wage.

Also look down your local job adverts n the paper for cleaners... it generally states rates of pay. Commercial cleaners "majority" are still just over the minimum wage. Saying that just look at Sainsbury, Tescos and other retail they are only on about £6.50 so you are OK to pay that.

If staff have been with you a while and deserve a rise pay them. I am all for it. If you pay them more or not with in the competitive rates you wont be competitive.

As for them not travelling that far... I certainly would not entertain petrol allowance.

As for the inflation.... have you not noticed everything goes up mortgage payments, Interest, petrol, cotton, latex, but not wages...

We generally only deal with commercial and they don't want to pay any more than they have to. Even we sometimes have to justify in stringent detail to our prospective clients why we charge what we are charging.

Even in London some cleaning staff are being paid minimum wage....... what do you think about that?