I am doing a hospitality assignment at school and need to know how many rooms a maid can do in an hour or day and how to get the right number of staff in every day?
Thanks,
Chris

Hi,

In New York City, 1 maid have to clean between 16 and 17 room per 8 hour shift.

Good luck on your paper.

In SE Asia that number would be about 3 rooms per hour for a 3 - 4 star, and 1 - 2 for a five star property (non-villa)

Best regards,

ASEAN HOTELWORKS

Will average 3 rooms per hour in Florida as well.
Good luck with your paper

14 -18 based on type of hotel.

All Hilton Hotels 14 Stephen

Hi

The average score is 2 to 3.

Thanks

Ruth

normally 3 person

cheers

It would be four.

hi every one,
          i think i have the right answer to your simple question. The Housekeeping department must be the most important. It has the greatest proportion of staffing hours to cover, the most staff, the most hours to cover and it is a cost center. Unlike the restaurant and bar, which are revenue centers, and as long as they are not overstaffed, the more staff you have the more revenue is generated. The housekeeping department is also the one the customers notice most if anything is wrong. You have to have the right number of staff on duty, or it shows.

The housekeeping department can have the following staff depending on the size of hotel. Housekeeper and assistant housekeepers, room maids, cleaners, staffmaids, cloakroom attendants, houseporters, valets, laundry and linen keeper. The staff hours of cover depend on the hotel and type of customer, business people require different time schedules to people on holiday with children. The staff need to be scheduled accordingly and in a ratio to the number of guests staying in the hotel. Fortunately, most people book ahead and the workload is known well in advance, especially during peak periods.

Your staffing requirement will depend on the occupancy of your hotel. It is possible to get quite good estimates of staff numbers based on average times to do tasks, such as cleaning a room. Then you can allocate 10, or 15, or even 20 rooms to each room maid. It is also quite easy to estimate the total number of staff needed in a year for a task.

    For example, cleaning an occupied room takes 30mins/day, en-suite bathroom 6mins/day, therefore a maid for every 13 occupied rooms. A hotel with 100 rooms(all occupied) needs 8 maids. Then we can sum this up for a year of 365 days, which comes to 2900 maid days per year. We can then divide this by the number of days a maid works per year, say 240, and arrive at a figure of 12 full time maids. Hence we can recruit the 12 maids and start using them on the rooms. I haven’t allowed for average occupancy, sickness rates, and a lot of other things which readily come to mind, because at this point, the difficult thing is to find a way of sharing the yearly workload on a day by day basis. This is the difficult part, just how do you allocate the maids so that you have just the right number on every day.
    best regards ....

16 rooms is recommended based on 30 minutes per room. For heavy check-out dates, it is recommended that you reduce the number alloted to the housekeeper to 15 or even 14. This is because ‘Departure’ rooms require more work than ‘Stay-over’ rooms.

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JD

This would allow for half an hour per room. I think this is too long. I would double this as it generally take approximately 15 minutes to clean one hotel room every day.

Housekeeper in a hotel should clean 2-3 rooms in an hour as per my experience.

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How many rooms should a maid clean in an 8 hour shift?
Most hotel chains will limit the number to 14-16 rooms per shift.  Of course room size and type affects this so do average the time that your fastest and slowest maid takes without compromising quality.  Experiment with pairs of maids working together specializing in tasks. You may find that where one maid alone could do 14 rooms per shift on average whilst 2 maids together could do 30 or more rooms on average.
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A couple of people mentioned this, but the number varies depending on the standard of hotel and the standard of the room.  You’re going to spend much more time on the presidential suite at the Four Seasons in New York than you would in a budget hotel in the Bronx!

Natasha

I find this topic very interesting . We have 35 rooms and 2 people in housekeeping . That would be 16 or so rooms per day .... we are seldom booked to the full capacity so I will say our housekeeping does an adverage of 6 to 10 rooms per day ...in the high season more. They also wash our bed linnens . They are working an adverage of 7 to 8 hours a day .... I wonder where the extra time is going ? I will have to read these posts carefully again. I wonder how many of you have room managers ? Who is in charge of overseeing the housekeepers ?  What is done about housekeepers that smoke ? If they are smoking a pack a day , and take a hidden 15 min break per ciggerette thats a lot of time wasted on your dime ... how do all of you deal with this , and with keeping your housekeeping honest and efficient ?