Well, no wonder the maids are insisting on expat employers : D - yeah, I know .. but, nobody pays "BONUS" and the kind of salary you are paying -but then again, you are not paying for trip home.movingtospore wrote:OP I don't think you are obligated to pay phones, bus passes etc. Pay a fair salary based on the local market, then a bonus and/or trip home.
But remember you are also on the hook for medical.
Ours is an experienced expat maid, we pay her $600/mo + one month's bonus per year. Don't pay any of the other stuff, and don't pay a trip home - she gets the cash bonus instead.
Lots of maids are paid a lot less than we pay ours tho. Just depends. We paid her more as she has a fair bit of responsibility with our kids.
That also goes in with my disputing a friend, who insisted the maid must have a bf, so she will be happier .. not a dumb idea it was, for that friend .. and she seemed pretty intent on finding a BF for the maid, if the maid couldn't do it herself .. damn .. (I wish I had a boss who went out to find a gf for me- regardless of my current status - so I will be happymovingtospore wrote:I'm having to reframe my thinking a bit tho - originally my idea was very western - I'd rather treat her like an adult, given her more money (instead of trips home, phones, etc) and let her be independent and make her own choices. Needless to say that hasn't work out so well. I know some people who actually set up savings accounts for their helpers and manage them for them - raises go there instead of into the maid's pocket. That totally rubs me the wrong way in principal but I get it now.
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