According to Indeed, the average salary for a maid in the US is approx $15 an hourbut in Palm Beach, Florida, a severe shortage of family staff is earning applicants well over six figures.

According to a new report from CNBCPalm Beach domestic workers are seeing salaries as high as $150,000 a year and hourly rates as high as $50 an hour, due to a shortage of field workers and increased demand — thanks to affluent young residents moving in like New York.

“I've been staffing for 30 years and I've never seen anything like this,” April Berube, founder of family staffing agency The Wellington Agency, told the media. “For domestic workers, it's great. For us, it's extremely difficult. It's a big miss.”

And making six figures is just the beginning. The report notes that family staff also have full-time employee benefits, including 401(k) plan enrollment, health care and overtime pay.

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Of course, discretion is expected. House staff are used to hearing record secrets spread by the rich and wealthy – and they are compensated for silence.

“Affairs, money, divorces. We know them better than even their best friends know. I don't think they even know how much we know,” Ana, a Palm Beach homemaker, told the named Ana, who said she earned $161,000 last year. New York Post.

“I actually feel like they're a family,” she added. “So I listen but I don't repeat it. Not even to other family members. I like them a lot.”

Melissa Psitos, who runs staffing company Lily Pond Services, noted that the massive increase in the need for services began during Covid and hasn't let up.

“These are ultra-high net worth people who want the best and are willing to pay for it,” he told Psitos. New York Post.

for Zillowthe median cost of a home in Palm Beach is $2,114,224, an increase of 2.5% year over year.

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