How much does a cleaner cost in the Canary Islands?

What people actually pay in 2026, what each middleman keeps, and the minimums the law sets. No hedging, with the numbers on the table.

Updated 13 September 2026 · 6 minute read

It is the first question any household asks, and the honest answer is awkward: there is no single price. There are three markets running side by side on the same streets. Anyone who does not know which one they are in either pays too much or searches where nobody will answer.

The three prices that coexist on the island

The gaps are not arbitrary. Each step buys something specific: the first buys hours only, the second buys convenience in the search, the third buys backup when something goes wrong.

What the law sets as a floor

Two figures are worth keeping in mind, because they mark the line below which the arrangement stops being a saving and becomes a liability.

• Las Palmas cleaning collective agreement: the reference hour sits at around €9, before supplements.
• Domestic employees (empleadas de hogar): when hired directly by the hour, the minimum price per hour worked is around €9.50, with holiday pay and extra payments already prorated into it.

Holiday lets: a different market

Changeover cleans between guests are not paid by the hour but per service, because the work is always the same and the clock is beside the point. In the south of Gran Canaria the usual prices sit roughly here:

The deep clean, the one done twice a year, usually costs about double.

How many hours it actually takes

The most common mistake is not getting the price wrong, it is getting the duration wrong. A realistic estimate for weekly upkeep:

• Studio or one bedroom: 2 hours
• Two bedrooms: 2.5 to 3 hours
• Three bedrooms or a house: 3.5 to 4 hours

Ironing is a separate job and has to be added on: roughly an hour per medium basket. If it is squeezed into the same slot, something else gets left undone, and the blame ends up with the person cleaning.

The part almost nobody works out

A 20 % commission on €15 is €3 an hour. It sounds like little. At three hours a week that is €36 a month; at eight hours, over €100. And it is not paid once — it is paid every month, indefinitely, for an introduction that happened a single time.

That is why almost nobody recommends the platform they used. The cleaner knows exactly how much is missing each month, and the household eventually suggests carrying on by WhatsApp once there is trust.

So what price to set

If you are looking for one steady person for weekly upkeep in Gran Canaria, between €13 and €15 an hour is where you find serious people who want to stay. Below that you find turnover; above it you pay for company overheads that a private household rarely needs.

And it is worth looking at travel before price: someone who lives in your own municipality will keep coming for years. Someone who has to cross the island will stop as soon as something closer turns up, however good the rate.