Originally Posted by kaukau
The salary of a U.S. maid is presented to her by her employer as $8.50 per hour plus tips. That's probably the equivalent of a maids pay everywhere. Anyway, $60 a month for maid service ($2 a day) is cheap. When in Rome.....
Actually, the amount maid's receive depends on how strong their union is in a particular state, eg A vegas maid gets more than one in a less unionised state.
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It's a joke to say to a maid you get x plus tips - maids more often than not do not receive any tip. They are mostly invisible and consequently not tipped.