Lome - Post Report Question and Answers
What is the availability and cost of household help, and what types of help are typically employed by expatriates?
Household help is cheap here as everyone is looking for a job. It is usually hard to find someone who can cook, clean, nanny, and garden. You normally have to hire one of each. Some people try to be cheap and hire one person for all that but then you have to laugh when they pour too much bleach in the food or kill all the plants. You get what you pay for. - Mar 2019
Our gardener is paid 30,000 CFA (about $52) a month for three days / week of work. My wife also gets a weekly massage, that costs 5000 CFA. - Feb 2019
We had 4 employees (I do miss them!!!)
A maid 3x a week for U$77 dollars every 2 weeks
A pool guy 2x a week for U$46 dollars a month
And two gardeners (one was an apprentice of the other, we didn't pay him, only his boss) 3x a week for U$55 every 2 weeks.
Some embassy people had chefs, baby sitters and more help than us... it is cheap and convenient - Sep 2017
widely available, with good English, around $1 an hour - Aug 2015
Good, cost is moderate. - May 2014
250- 300 USD a month - Mar 2011
