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Current Baomu salary?

JGunz (4 posts) • 0

There is a discussion amongst us foreigners down here in Banna about what the current baomu salary should be. What is the current baomu salary up in Kunming (either by hour or per month)? Maybe that will help us figure out what is reasonable.

michael2015 (784 posts) • 0

Two years ago - in Kunming, we were paying CNY 2k/month PLUS the agency fee (6 months) of CNY 400-600. We were overcharged and we knew it, because we were dumb blind foreigners...not so dumb and blind anymore. Also - our baomu was a live-in - helped with grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning house, etc (her primary function) and occasionally looked after our newborn when mother needed to rest (NOT her primary function).

To check baomu or ANY vocational or professional salaries across China, simply go to zhaopin.com and type in the job title, then in the location box - check the Yunnan box and the Banna city - and you'll see the salaries for KM baomu are about CNY 6-8k - HOWEVER you should also check the job descriptions to ensure you're comparing the same fruit.

Live-in help is actually less expensive then daily help because of the commute and meals issues. Live-in help eats with family (we treat live-ins like family as opposed to slaves).

You should be VERY careful when you give the baomu money to buy groceries - many consider this pocket money and will buy minimal groceries (10%) and pocket the change as profit...so better YOU should take baomu to buy groceries.

We used this as one of many honesty tests...have her go buy vegetables with ¥100 and see what ends up in the fridge (but you should KNOW what ¥100 in vegetables looks like).

Good luck!

GoK Moderator (5096 posts) • 0

Try contacting the 58到家 (dao jia) APP.
They probably don't operate in Banna, but they can tell you how much they charge in Kunming. They are an app like didi che. You can hire home help by the hour or longer, an pay via the app. On an ad hoc or regular basis. We pay 25rmb/h for a fully trained ayi/cleaner through this service/agency. This is much cheaper than we were quoted by agencies, and much better than the college grads who were desperate for money.
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