Find home help & register legally? how does it work?
Finding a home cleaner and registering her legally is not rocket science. You should know that about search, hourly pay, levies and mini-job center.
How do I find a cleaning lady?
I write this colloquially: Many roads lead to Rome. You can in the Daily newspaper, in the weekly or official gazette Search through advertisements or even place an advertisement. If you pick a pen for a text, your future budget bead is certainly interested in the hourly rate, the number of hours and at the place or the district that they must approach. Recently, I read a text, as the seeker had clearly stated that he seeks a legal cleaning power for his private household and excludes undeclared work. That certainly saved him unnecessary calls. (According to a study by the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft, around 80 percent of the aid was illegally employed in 2015).
Instead of going through an ad, you too can handout hang out, for example, at the bakery or in the café. Write the posting date in a corner, then the readers can assess how current the whole thing is and you can assume that the operators cancel the notice after a few weeks. You may also have Known one of you, a cleaning person, who gives her full confidence and who has the capacity for another household.
Mediation platforms via the Internet
In recent years, cleaning platforms have been set up on the Internet. At helpling.de you will find a platform that will send you a tested and a liability insurance with the help in the house. To do this you give your zip code and what exactly should be done. Helpling.de then compares the data and sends you something suitable up close. Similarly, supervut.de works. Here is queried what kind of support you are looking for, whether it is, for example, housing, bath, kitchen, window or carpet cleaning or how many years of experience your household bead should bring. Even the mini-job center has followed suit with a brokerage platform: In addition to mini jobbers and mini jobbers, she mediates employees subject to social insurance under haushaltsjob-boerse.de.
A drawback when searching through Internet platforms in my experience is that there is not always staff for the desired zip code or activity. But the same thing can happen to you during the brief newspaper ad: that the way to you is not worthwhile for two or three hours depending on the hourly rate.
How much does a cleaning lady make?
With the hourly wage for the cleaning aid in the private household divide the ghosts. From my tax office I got the announcement, "Pay attention to the minimum wage? (2017: 8.84 euros), on the other hand, my girlfriend pays her household fee for years 13 euros net per hour. Elke Wieczorek, Federal Managing Director of the DHB? Network household. The professional association of the household leaders e.V., gives figures from the collective agreement with the union food-pleasure-restaurants (NGG): "A domestic help, which can show no vocational training, however, previous knowledge, gets according to collective agreement 9.99 euros per hour. For a trained housekeeper, the hourly wage according to the collective agreement is 10.62 euros. As households or domestic helpers are generally not members of any association and are not members of the union, such collective agreements do not apply to them, so these values are only a rough guide. Which hourly pay is right for you? You can then compare, if you have opted for a compensation or employment model and coupled with it also knows whether and which tax reliefs come to you.
How much does a mini-job cost and how do I register my home help there?
On the homepage of the Minijob-Zentrale there is the form? Haushaltsscheck ?. You fill that with your future home help. You have to decide whether the monthly income is always the same or varies. If it remains the same, you only have to fill in the form once, otherwise there are so-called sequential checks in which the respective income is entered. Income is used to calculate social security contributions and taxes that you as an employer owe. The percentages for 2017 can be found in the table. The mini-job center registers your home help with the statutory accident insurance, so you have to do nothing further. For you as an employer, it should be noted that mini-jobbers are entitled to paid holidays, so they are not available for you all year round.
| Lump-sum payments 2017 for a mini-job in the private household | |
| Health insurance | 5 % |
| Pension insurance (RV) | 5 % |
| Control | 2 % |
| Apportionment disease | 0,9 % |
| Charge maternity protection | 0,3 % |
| Contribution insolvency | none |
| accident insurance | 1,6 % |
Source: Minijob Central
Now your household help but once more expensive than expected? In return, you can claim up to 20 percent of your total expenses (annual income plus taxes), maximum 510 euros, in the tax.
Since January 2017, the new minimum wage applies
Every two years, the Minimum Wage Commission meets and negotiates a minimum wage. As of January 1, 2017, it was increased by 4 percent (34 cents) and is now no longer at 8.50 euros, but at 8.84 euros. Have you already hired a mini jobber and paid him a higher hourly wage, then nothing changes. If you are among those who still pay the old minimum wage and now have to adjust it, make sure that you do not break the 450-euro mark by raising it, otherwise it will no longer be a job without social security. One way to get around this is by reducing the hours.
Engage a self-employed cleaner
It is completely unbureaucratic for you, if you book a self-employed cleaner. With her hourly wage, you can quickly calculate what she will cost you in a month. She is responsible for holidays and illness. However, they will price that, as well as the sales tax of 19 percent. Tax you can claim more than the mini-job.
The take Internet conferencing platforms
Helpling.de advertises on its site in December 2016? From 12.90 per hour? and praises the tax benefit, which reduces the effective cost to 10.32 per hour. The offer is valid for regular bookings of 2 hours at a time. If I become more specific and search with Cologne or Stuttgart postcode, then I will be charged an hourly wage of 15.90 euros per week. But I can also live well, because about 16 euros per hour seems to me appropriate, no matter if as hourly wage plus social security contributions and taxes for a mini jobber, whether gross for a self-employed force or booked through a switching platform.
And off you go?
You have decided on a legal force and have found a cleaning lady or a cleaning man? Then the only question is: clean up, clean up, or do you stand by your mess?
