Is $450 min salary now for all maids regardless of experienc

[michyms]

verykiasu2010:

ccelyn:

[quote=\"michyms\"]My maid told me that new maids from Philippines are getting $450 with 4 off days!!!

If my maid told me this, i will tell her to go find that agency and compensate me for whatever i paid up to her current agency.

if my maid tell me the same thing I will tell her to go be a filipino[/quote]Ha ha... but my maid is Philippino... anyway, she has 7 years of experience, so I raised her salary to $450, with 2 off days. Plus she has been with me for 5 years and still perform ok, so to me its fine...

[Chu Liu Xiang]

michyms:

Ha ha... but my maid is Philippino... anyway, she has 7 years of experience, so I raised her salary to $450, with 2 off days. Plus she has been with me for 5 years and still perform ok, so to me its fine...

$450 for 7 yrs of working experience? If she goes to HK/Taiwan she can easily get $600/$800 with that kind of years of experience. From what I know new Filo maid salary is now $400 - $450 because my maid's sis is coming over in about a month's time with a salary of $400 and her cousin too is getting $450. Both are Filo maids

[michyms]

Chu Liu Xiang:

michyms:

Ha ha... but my maid is Philippino... anyway, she has 7 years of experience, so I raised her salary to $450, with 2 off days. Plus she has been with me for 5 years and still perform ok, so to me its fine...

$450 for 7 yrs of working experience? If she goes to HK/Taiwan she can easily get $600/$800 with that kind of years of experience. From what I know new Filo maid salary is now $400 - $450 because my maid's sis is coming over in about a month's time with a salary of $400 and her cousin too is getting $450. Both are Filo maids

Yup, of course she can get more money elsewhere, so I told her quite frankly I am ok if she plans to move on to another employer or another country. I won't be paying $500 or $600... which I feel is too much. But she says she is ok to stay since she already knows us well, and we are flexible and nice to her. It's her choice. She has seen many cases of her friends who transfer to expat employer then end up with much unhappiness, so she says she'd rather not.

[snowbee88]

my Filo maid who was with us for 5 yrs plus, she’s now getting $480 and will have 2 months "bonus" when she complete her 6 yrs with us. The last 2 times she went back for home leave, we give about $150-$200 hongbao. Recently, I happen to talk about maid salary with a group of friends, and came to realise my maid is getting much more than my friends’ maid. Her work is not much also compared to theirs, and can sleep at 10pm, wake up 6.30am.

[ccelyn]

snowbee88:

my Filo maid who was with us for 5 yrs plus, she's now getting $480 and will have 2 months \"bonus\" when she complete her 6 yrs with us. The last 2 times she went back for home leave, we give about $150-$200 hongbao. Recently, I happen to talk about maid salary with a group of friends, and came to realise my maid is getting much more than my friends' maid. Her work is not much also compared to theirs, and can sleep at 10pm, wake up 6.30am.

i suggest don't compare with how your friends treated their maids. If you read MOM website, MOM strongly encourage 8hrs of sleep time. Plus, not many people can go into deep sleep immediately after they lay down on their bed. 10pm to 6.30am, 8 and 1/2hrs is good and fair. I am sure they are employers who treated their maid (in terms of salary, bonus and resting time) better than you <--no offence. :imsorry:

Think will be good for employers to read up MOM website re: employing a maid and managing expectation.

[Chu Liu Xiang]

snowbee88:

my Filo maid who was with us for 5 yrs plus, she's now getting $480 and will have 2 months \"bonus\" when she complete her 6 yrs with us. The last 2 times she went back for home leave, we give about $150-$200 hongbao. Recently, I happen to talk about maid salary with a group of friends, and came to realise my maid is getting much more than my friends' maid. Her work is not much also compared to theirs, and can sleep at 10pm, wake up 6.30am.

Cannot just compare base on salary alone.5 yrs ago I believe your filo maid's salary was low as compared to now ($400 - $450). My filo maid's starting salary was $380 about 2 yrs back. I made an adjustment and her salary is now $480. Her contract is expiring soon and if she continues then her salary will definnitely be more than $500.

With the stupid announcement coming soon at the end of the year by MOM on the day-off(s) (and its compensation) I believe our maid's salary will easily shoot above $500

Salary increase/adjustment depends on the current market salary, difficulty level of the job, the amount of job to be done and, of course, her performance too.

:imcool:

[rkmommy]

Any idea what MOM will say in announcement ?? Thanks

[Chu Liu Xiang]

rkmommy:

Any idea what MOM will say in announcement ?? Thanks

Day-off(s), compensation in lieu of day-off(s), English language entry test, employer's responsibility for maid's day-off(s) even though they (MOM) mandates it etc anything that don't affect their bottomline and not relating to them but yours

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[moom]

Ex-Dubai Filipino maid with 3 years experience (1st time in SG), asking for $450 with one day off - is that reasonable?


Thanks

[Chu Liu Xiang]

moom:

Ex-Dubai Filipino maid with 3 years experience (1st time in SG), asking for $450 with one day off - is that reasonable?


Thanks

I think it's reasonable considering the starting salary of new FILO maid now is between $400 - $450. You don't want your experienced maid's salary to be less than that of the new maid in the neighbourhood, right?

:imcool: