Merry Maids reviews

3.1

52% would recommend to a friend

(587 total reviews)
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Regan Stokes

70% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Merry Maids has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 587 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Merry Maids employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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587 reviews
5.0
Aug 5, 2016

So far I love it

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice hours. If you work fast you can make good money!

Cons

Hard work in the hot summer. Can get hot in the houses.

4.0
Jun 29, 2016

House Cleaner

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I loved our manager, great coworkers, great pay wage and weekly pay.

Cons

There were not enough hours for me. Had a lot of days off. Sometimes the routes were long. Long distances from each house.

2.0
Jun 4, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Does offer some good perks such as tips, insurance after 90 days, office supplies good quality cleaning products and equipment. In office snacks and goodies, rewards for good work, weekly paychecks. They have a good training system. Can work by yourself or in a pair if you want after training. You have to really like to clean any conditions to stay with the job. It's not like cleaning your own house. It does teach you how to REALLY clean a house the right way. Very valuable knowledge to being a good housekeeper at home.

Cons

This is the deal breaker for this company as a whole not just in certain states. Where I worked (Missouri) they offered a $300 sign on bonus for any new employee which you get after 60 of employment. This was not mentioned to me at my interview. I asked about it later and they would not give it to me because I did not mention at the time of application. For the first three weeks your pay is based per hour in Missouri it starts at $8.25. A new person could be cleaning up to five homes a day at that wage!!! That is hard work on Kibbles and Bits pay. Most people do not last that long. You have to drive your own car on rotating days. You get mileage pay of .52 cents a mile and after three weeks your pay is based on a % of the cost of the job. Starting pay after three weeks is 30% of what Merry Maids takes after their bite. It averages out to 8,9 or 10 an hour depends the size of house. They are nice as pie in the beginning but after your hired they treat you like a slave. They say no weekends but try to get the weak hearted to work weekends or make the new people work it. If you want weekends off don't work here. Some days you will work longer than what is mentioned at the time of hire. There is no over time pay for it. You get done when you finish your last house. Have to deal with people's pets, kids and messy homes and lots of human and pet hair. Some homes are nice others are worse to down right nasty hoarder homes. Be careful if team leaders who take the tips and do not split them with you. Collect payment TOGETHER at the end of the job. Don't be told you have to load all the supplies by yourself while the team leader collects the pay.

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