Housekeepers make $150K a year in these Florida cities — here’s why salaries have skyrocketed

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Cleaners in South Florida are sweeping up the cash.

Housekeepers in South Florida are making about $150,000 a year as the influx of new, rich residents has created bidding wars for high-end cleaners, staffing companies told NBC News.

“I have been placing staff for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” said April Berube, founder of the Wellington Agency, which places household staff in the Sunshine State, New York and other locations.

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“We’ve seen such a boom from people relocating, especially Palm Beach and Miami.”

“For housekeepers it’s wonderful,” Berube said. “For us, it’s extremely difficult. It’s a severe shortage.”

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Mansions, hotels, resorts and businesses are all competing for cleaning staff shooting up the prices for these positions.

Pay for housekeepers has rocketed from about $25 an hour in 2020 to $45 or $50 an hour today, according to some agencies.

In Palm Beach, housekeepers with experience in wealthy homes are typically making between $120,000 and $150,000 a year, along with 401(k) plans, health care and other benefits, including overtime.

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Melissa Psitos, the founder of Lily Pond Services, told NBC News that she recently had a client in the area hire a head housekeeper for $250,000 a year, including overtime, and the worker travels with the family to their other homes.

“At first they’re in shock, and they say, ‘No way I’m paying that,’” Berube explained. “It’s even uncomfortable for me to give them the numbers. But when they try to hire someone for less, with less experience, they almost always come back to us and say, ‘I learned my lesson. We are willing to pay for the experience.’”

She noted that housekeepers of this caliber need specific tools and skills, such as moving quietly and unnoticed and knowing how to carefully clean antiques, which makes the hiring pool much smaller than the demand.

“There is just not enough supply,” she said.

 

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Only the beginning, wait till all of the trade people start retiring. These Gen Z and newer cats don't wanna do those jobs so the people that know how can demand a premium.

Electricians, Plumbers, etc. People who know how to do that shyt about to eat like a mufukkin hungry hippos in the coming years. Seriously considering jumpin in the game on the side and get certified to do shyt like this.
 

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Those rates are pretty standard. I pay a team of cleaners like $200 each time and it works out to be like $40-50 an hour. I do it once a month only. I think cleaners earn good money, all cash, but I dont think it's super consistent.
I can't imagine there being a down time for cleaning. If you have a decent number of clients, you should keep steady work.
 

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Those rates are pretty standard. I pay a team of cleaners like $200 each time and it works out to be like $40-50 an hour. I do it once a month only. I think cleaners earn good money, all cash, but I dont think it's super consistent.
Yeah the problem with that kind of work is youre usually not getting 8 a day. $50/hr is $100K about
 

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Only the beginning, wait till all of the trade people start retiring. These Gen Z and newer cats don't wanna do those jobs so the people that know how can demand a premium.

Electricians, Plumbers, etc. People who know how to do that shyt about to eat like a mufukkin hungry hippos in the coming years. Seriously considering jumpin in the game on the side and get certified to do shyt like this.

But the coli told me trades is back breaking work and go to college.

I wonder how long it takes to jump in the game.
 
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