Hong Kong
Home cleaning in Hong Kong, without becoming somebody's employer.
Hong Kong is the one market of our four where the choice is not really between cleaning companies. Part-time domestic help here is a direct-hire market: you pay the worker, the worker keeps it, and there is no agency in the middle. That is efficient, and it also means the obligations land on you.
What you are actually choosing between
Engaging a 鐘點 or a helper directly, or paying an employer to do it. Direct hire is cheaper per hour and it makes you responsible for insurance, MPF, statutory entitlements, and for what happens when the person an agency sent is not the person described. Sable is the employer. We carry all of it, including the replacement when somebody leaves — which is the part that costs a household a fortnight of evenings when it is handled by the household.
Being honest about the margin here
Hong Kong is the tightest of our four markets and we would rather write that down than dress it up. Because part-time cleaning is direct-hire, the going rate already belongs to the worker, and there is no agency margin sitting inside it to redistribute. Anyone standing in the middle is adding cost, so the only defensible reason to pay one is that they take on something you would otherwise carry yourself: the employment, the cover, the scope, and the accountability when something goes wrong.
- HK$80–120 per hour is the going part-time rate, to HK$250 at the premium end
- HK$80–HK$120
- HK$80–120 per hour is what the worker receives in a direct hire
- HK$80–HK$120
Market figures, August 2026, not Sable's rates. The two ranges overlap because this is a direct-hire market — that is the structure, not an error.
Opening first in
Sable opens a district once it has the cleaners to hold it. These come first. If you are elsewhere we will say so and tell you when we expect to reach you.
- Mid-Levels
- The Peak
- Happy Valley and Jardine's Lookout
- Repulse Bay and Stanley
- Kowloon Tong
- Discovery Bay
- Sai Kung and Clearwater Bay
- Tung Chung
Questions people actually ask.
How is this different from hiring a part-time helper directly?
Cost and liability. Direct hire is cheaper per hour, and it makes you the employer: insurance, MPF, statutory entitlements, and the risk when the person who arrives is not the person the agency described. With Sable the employment is ours, including finding the replacement when someone leaves.
Do you quote by square feet?
Yes — Hong Kong homes are described in 呎, not in bedroom counts, and asking a household here how many bedrooms it has is a good way to price the wrong flat. The commercial calculator already works in square feet; the residential one is being rebuilt to match.
Is Sable more expensive than hiring directly?
Per hour, yes, and we are not going to pretend otherwise — this is a direct-hire market, so the going rate has no agency margin inside it. What you are paying for is that Sable is the employer and carries the obligations, the cover when someone is ill, the written scope, and a named person who answers when something is wrong.
Cost guides
- What does house cleaning cost?
- What does retail and shop cleaning cost?
- What does warehouse cleaning cost?
- What does medical and dental office cleaning cost?
- What does restaurant cleaning cost?
- What does gym and fitness centre cleaning cost?
- What does office cleaning cost?
- What does post-construction cleaning cost?
See what your flat costs
Three answers, nobody visits to work it out, and the number holds.
None of this is in place yet — Sable has not begun trading, and these are the commitments it is being built on rather than a record of what it has done. That distinction matters more than the promises do.