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Originally Posted by Hillbilly
I find $9000 for help to be outrageously high!! They saw you coming!!!
We pay our lead cook and housekeeper very well, and she makes slightly less than $5000 a month, Plus food. Her assistant gets $150 a day up to 6 days a week. The part time gardener gets $300 a day. No live in help...
And by local standards, we pay well. Our cook has been with us for more than 15 years. But, and this is important, we are not ex-pats.....
HB
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I find the $9000 outrageously high too.
We pay a hired help $1500 monthly for once weekly(cleaning the house, doing the laundry and cooking).
As for the part time gardener we pay $350 a day but you should see our chinas, mandarinas, toronjas, chinolas, mangos, limon, agrias. We even have platanos, rulos, guineo. And how about our huerto with rabanos, rucula, nabos,verduras, tomates, pepinos... We are not dominicans but we are considered as natives by the dominicans. Don't think that the $350 is too much.
Oups, I forgot the yuca, all the flores and so on and so on..