House help and domestic help services in Bangalore

They describe the same work. Domestic help and house help are the broader terms, covering anyone who works inside the home: maids, cooks, nannies, housekeepers and attendants. Maid usually refers to cleaning and general housework, sometimes with cooking added. When you enquire, the useful distinction is not the label but the arrangement: live-in, full-time day help, or part-time visits. That is what decides availability, cost and the kind of household it suits.

Give the sub-area rather than the city. Helpers work a walking or short-bus radius, so a shortlist built around Koramangala 5th Block is different from one built around Kadugodi, even though both are Bangalore. We run locality pages for twelve areas with the sub-areas, pincodes and helper-supply geography for each. Start at the page for your area, or call and give the nearest landmark, since most addresses here are described by landmark rather than by street.

For a live-in maid the placement fee is ₹25,000 plus 18% GST, paid once. The helper's monthly salary is separate and you pay it to her directly. We take no share of it. A seven-day cooling-off period applies after payment, and the three-month and eleven-month plans include free replacements. Fees for full-time and part-time placements depend on the arrangement and are shared on the call, since they are calculated differently from the live-in fee.

A live-in maid in Bangalore typically earns ₹22,000 to ₹45,000 a month depending on duties, experience and home size. Full-time day help is usually ₹16,000 to ₹22,000. Part-time work is commonly ₹8,000 to ₹15,000 depending on the number of visits and tasks. Cooks range from ₹6,000 to ₹10,000 part-time and ₹12,000 to ₹20,000 full-time. Babysitters are usually ₹15,000 to ₹25,000. These are Bangalore figures and we do not add a premium by locality.

Usually not for long. In a two bedroom flat, live-in means the helper sleeps in the hall or the utility area, and most helpers will not accept that beyond a few weeks. Three bedroom flats with a small third room work, and older independent houses in areas such as Jayanagar, Malleshwaram and Banashankari often have a rear room or outhouse with its own entrance, which is the arrangement that lasts. Where there is no spare room, full-time day help covers the same work.

Identity documents including Aadhaar, a photograph, a permanent address and contact details for previous households are collected and shared with you. For apartment residents, this is what the management office needs to issue a staff gate pass. Bengaluru City Police accept domestic worker verification requests through the station covering your address, and independent house owners file this directly since there is no society office to do it for them. Keep paper copies at home rather than a phone photo taken on the first day.

Language is the first filter we apply, not an afterthought. We routinely match Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Malayalam. Working English is far less common and should not be assumed. This matters most where elderly parents or infants are involved, because cooking instructions, medicine timings and emergencies all depend on being understood. A placement where the housework is done well but nobody can be understood tends to break within the first fortnight.

For part-time and full-time work in an area with local supply, a shortlist usually comes within a day or two, and joining depends on how fast the society formalities clear. Live-in placements and cooks with a specific cuisine skill take longer because the pool is smaller. If you need help the same day for a one-off situation rather than a placement, that is a different service. See on-demand helpers for same-day visits.

Direct hiring through a neighbour or watchman costs nothing upfront and works well when you get a good reference. What you give up is documented identity, a replacement if the person stops coming, and any recourse if something goes wrong. An agency costs a placement fee and takes longer to arrange because of the shortlisting and verification. The trade-off is worth it mainly for live-in roles, child care, and households with elderly parents, where a sudden disappearance is a real problem.

Report it the day attendance breaks rather than after a fortnight, because a same-area replacement is far easier while the requirement is still current. Part-time replacements usually fill faster than live-in placements or cooks with specific cuisine requirements. The three-month and eleven-month live-in plans include free replacements. Keeping a written note of the daily routine, medicine timings and kitchen rules means a new helper can be briefed in one visit instead of a week.