If you're hiring from a company or agency, the company or agency may be taking a large cut of that. I know many cleaners round here make around minimum wage; £6

If you're hiring from a company or agency, the company or agency may be taking a large cut of that. I know many cleaners round here make around minimum wage; £6.31 (around $10.50) an hour. Whereas hiring from a cleaning company will run you out to around £10-11 an hour (roughly $17) So, if you knock a third of the price in OP off - and say that's what the company keeps - you'd be looking at more like $20-23 an hour in Bay Area. Then you've got travel time to count in - say it takes them a half hour to get to your house and a half hour back to base. If they work your house for two hours at a stretch that's another third. So, 40 over 3. That'd get you down to $13 an hour. And then you've got to ask how many hours they can really fit into the day.