Domestic Help Salary Calculator

Most Indian households price part-time domestic help per task per month rather than per hour. A typical structure is a base rate for sweeping and mopping, with separate monthly add-ons for utensils, bathroom cleaning, laundry and ironing, cooking, childcare, elderly assistance, grocery runs and pet care. The total also scales with household size, because a family of six generates far more work than a couple. This calculator uses exactly that structure: a role base rate plus per-task add-ons, then multipliers for your city, your daily hours and your days per week.

It depends on your state. Domestic workers are not covered by a single dedicated central law, but several state governments have included domestic work in the schedule of employments under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, which means a notified minimum wage applies in those states. Domestic workers also fall within the Unorganised Workers Social Security Act, 2008 and can register on e-Shram, and the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2013 explicitly covers them through Local Complaints Committees. Check your state labour department website for the current notified rate before finalising pay.

A common and widely accepted norm in Indian cities is one weekly off plus four to six days of paid leave a year, alongside major festival holidays. Many households also agree that pay is not deducted for short absences of a day or two, and instead treat repeated unplanned absence as a matter for discussion rather than an automatic salary cut. Agreeing the leave policy at the start, in writing, avoids most of the friction that arises later.

A full-time personal driver working roughly 8 to 10 hours a day, 6 days a week in Delhi, Noida or Gurugram commonly earns between ₹17,000 and ₹26,000 a month, with Gurugram at the higher end. Overtime beyond the agreed hours, night duty and outstation trips are usually paid separately, and outstation travel typically also carries a daily allowance for the driver food and lodging. Agree the daily hour limit and the overtime rate up front, because open-ended hours are the single most common source of dispute in driver arrangements.

Hiring directly is cheaper because the full amount reaches the worker, but you take on verification and replacement yourself. Agencies typically charge either a one-time placement fee of roughly one month of salary, or an ongoing margin on top of the worker pay, in exchange for background checks, documentation and a replacement guarantee. If you use an agency, ask specifically what share of your payment reaches the worker, because a large gap between what you pay and what the worker receives is a common complaint in the placement market.