Maid Salary Calculator

Monthly pay, leave and a fair cut

1. Tap Maid (or Cook, or Driver) and type the monthly pay.
2. Set Paid leave allowed a month — the days off agreed with pay, such as 2 — and the Weekly day off, such as Sunday.
3. Choose what one day's pay is, for a cut or a part month (see below).
4. When she takes leave, tap Leave on Today; for half a day, Half day. Days not marked count as worked.

At the month's end, the bill shows the monthly pay, the leave taken, how much of it was beyond what is allowed, and the cut — with the working shown, so there is nothing to argue about.

A month worked out

₹6,000 a month, Sundays off, 2 paid leaves. In October she took leave on the 6th, 7th and 20th and came for half a day on the 14th: 3½ days of leave, 1½ more than the 2 allowed. What 1½ days comes to depends on what you agreed one day's pay is:

The pay is rounded to whole rupees (you can switch that off under More). The app does not choose for you: households and their help agree on this in different ways, and the bill prints the rule it used — “1½ × ₹6,000 ÷ 31” — so both sides can see it.

Weekly days off, extra days and joining mid-month

• A weekly day off is never counted as leave. If she comes on her day off, tap Worked today and a day's pay is added.
• Joined in the middle of a month: set Started on to her first day. On the 10th of October she is paid for 22 of 31 days: ₹6,000 × 22 ÷ 31 = ₹4,258. With “÷ working days” the share counts working days instead.
• Left: open her card and tap Stop, with her last day. Nothing after it is counted, and her bills stay.
• A raise: type the new pay and choose the day it applies from. Monthly pay is one figure for a whole month, so the new pay counts from the first month that begins on or after that day — choose the 1st of a month to start it that month.
• Advance or loan: record it as a payment on the day you gave it. It comes off the month's pay as “Paid”, and anything beyond carries into the next month.

Paid by the day instead

A cook who comes for some days, or a driver paid per trip-day, can be set to By the day with a day's pay. Then every day worked is paid and every leave is simply not paid: at ₹250 a day, a month with one leave and one half day out of 31 is 29½ days, ₹7,375. There is no “allowed leave” in this way of paying.

Showing her the month

Open the Month calendar together: green days worked, red leave, amber half days. Bill → WhatsApp sends the month's working to her phone in English, Malayalam or Hindi (set under More → Bill language), and Picture makes an image to keep.

What the app does not decide

It does not say what a fair wage is, how many leaves to give, or what any law requires; it adds up what you have agreed and what you mark. For a printed monthly pay slip, the Salary Slip Maker makes one from the same figures.