According to Indeed, the median pay for a housekeeper in the U.S. is about $15 an hour, but in Palm Beach, Florida, a severe shortage of household staff is earning applicants well over six figures.
According to a new report by CNBC, housekeepers in Palm Beach are seeing salaries as high as $150,000 per year, and hourly rates reaching $50 per hour, due to a shortage of workers in the field and an increase in demand — thanks to wealthy new residents relocating from places like New York.
“I have been placing staff for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” April Berube, founder of household staffing agency The
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