M.M.
I am not a cleaning lady, but I have one. Every other week, she cleans our main floor (kitchen, office, family room....all hard wood flooring and the 1/2 bath) and we pay her $30.
On the opposite weeks, she cleans the whole house (2100 sq ft) and we pay her $60. We have a 4 bedroom house and when she started 3 years ago, she cleaned 3 of the 4 bedrooms. Due to more work on my end for the pre-clean, I just have her clean the maaster bedrooms and she vaccums the others IF there are not toys on the floor.
I think I could pay her less both weeks, but she is sooooo dependable and does a good job and I come home to a clean house once a week, so I am HAPPY. I do provide all my own cleaning supplies by choice and she uses our vaccum by my choice as well.