For those of you who do employ a house cleaner, how much to you pay him/her? I'm trying to figure out what's fair. I have a roughly 1500 sq. ft. house--2 bd, 2 ba--and I pay my house cleaner $120 to come clean for about 5-6 hours. Since I'm already a neat freak, there's not much of a mess to clean. She only comes once every 2 weeks and does the big and annoying jobs like mopping, vaccuuming, scubbing the bathroom. Much of the time I feel like she is at a loss for things to do because I find her spending hours on weird cleaning tasks like cleaning lint specks out of the window panes in the laundry room (she takes one hour to do this). I'm only bringing this up because my husband and I recently moved farther away from her house (it's very far--1 1/2 hour bus ride), and she asked for more money because of the commute (we already gave her a $20 raise from $100 because of the bigger house). I told her we wouldn't pay her any more for the commute.

Am I fair? I think I'm actually over paying her.