20 Dec 2023
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Domestic housekeepers who work for 0 years will receive a salary ranging from Ksh14,820 to Ksh31,457 per month. The age group for workers in this occupation who answered the survey was mostly between 24 and 29 years of age. This is made clear in research by Mywage.org/Kenya, conducted in 2023.
Highest salary for domestic housekeepers with 30 years of experience: Ksh16,582 to Ksh82,739 per month
Employees with 30 years of work experience earn the highest salary: between Ksh16,582 and Ksh82,739 per month. Workers who have 0 years of work experience, earn between Ksh76 and Ksh161 per hour.
Domestic housekeepers mostly female
Employees who answered the survey are mostly between 24 and 29 years of age. 47% of employees are parents of at least 1 child. Based on the survey results, most workers in this occupation are female.
Coverage by collective bargaining amongst workers in this occupation is 6%, while 94% are not covered by a collective agreement, according to our survey. Workers in this occupation work 43 hours per week on average.
44% of domestic housekeepers fewer than 5 years of work experience
62% of people in this job state that they have a permanent contract for the work that they are doing. In most cases, workers in this occupation report that the majority of their coworkers are female. 44% of employees have worked fewer than 5 years since their first job. 38% of people in this job state that they have no permanent contract for their job. 16% of all participating people in this job work in a multinational organisation. Workers in this occupation mostly work in organisations consisting of 500 or more people.
In the survey, 3% of the workers in this occupation choose 'highly satisfied' as their job satisfaction level. On the whole, workers feel dissatisfied about their job. This feeling is shared by 30% of the workers.
Wage dissatisfaction high among domestic housekeepers
Of all surveyed workers, 28% feel highly dissatisfied about their salary. 49% of the employees reports to be dissatisfied with their wage.
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