Re:Agatha Christie could afford a maid and a nanny but not a...
by freddie_mercury on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:35PM
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Exactly. Everyone I know here with a driver owns the car themselves and hires the driver separately. I don't know driver salaries since I don't have one but I'm guessing they are similar to nanny salaries since they are usually full-time 8am-8pm, 6-days a week kind of jobs. The only people without their own car tend to be foreign executives who are only going to be here on a 2-3 year contract.
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Re:Agatha Christie could afford a maid and a nanny but not a...
by ineedasername on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @08:00AM
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Driver salaries would likely have been much higher because the position wouldn't also cover room & board. Also the gender differences in pay would influence things as well. Last is that household cleaning etc. would have been considered lower skilled labor.
This document indicates that somewhere around $20-$30 per week may have been the wage, around page 128. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/bls/bl...