Malleshwaram

What it costs in Bengaluru

• part-time cleaning (jhadu-pocha)₹4.5k – ₹15k / month

  Sources disagree sharply, which is itself the finding. MyBuddyMaid quotes INR 4,500-9,000/month for 'task-based help for 1-4 hours a day' (sweeping-mopping, utensils, dusting, laundry on a fixed daily slot). EzyHelpers' Bengaluru guide of 24 July 2026 quotes INR 8,000-15,000/month for a part-time maid, priced by task bundle rather than by the hour - a single task such as utensils at the bottom, bundled sweeping, mopping, bathrooms and laundry near the top. The independent reference point is the IIHS survey of 9,636 households published December 2022, which found Bengaluru households paying between INR 2,000 and INR 13,000 per month per worker.

  Moves with: Task bundle, hours, house size, family size, locality (Whitefield and Koramangala explicitly quoted at a premium), experience, language.

• cook, one meal₹6k – ₹18k / month

  IMPORTANT - not split by number of meals. EzyHelpers quotes INR 6,000-10,000/month for a part-time cook and INR 12,000-20,000 for a full-time cook. MyBuddyMaid quotes INR 10,000-18,000/month for a cook covering 'one or more daily meal slots'. The band here covers part-time cooking of one to two meals; a full-time cook is higher.

  Moves with: Number of meal slots, cuisine, family size, whether utensils are included.

• full-time live-out₹16k – ₹26k / month

  EzyHelpers quotes INR 16,000-22,000/month for a full-time maid working eight to ten hours a day, and states that combined cleaning and cooking for a family of four or more sits at INR 20,000-22,000. MyBuddyMaid quotes INR 16,000-26,000/month for '8-12 hours a day (or live-in)'. This band brackets Karnataka's notified housekeeping minimum for Zone I (INR 15,044.56/month), which is what a full-day worker is legally owed at minimum.

  Moves with: Hours, whether cooking is included, house and family size, locality.

• live-in₹20k – ₹30k / month

  EzyHelpers' 24 July 2026 Bengaluru guide quotes INR 22,000-30,000/month for a live-in maid, INR 25,000+ for a live-in cook, INR 20,000-25,000 for a live-in nanny and INR 20,000-30,000 for a live-in elder-care attendant. It states a private sleeping space and meals are included in the stated salary, and that pay rises with home size, presence of children or elderly, and night duties.

  Moves with: Home size, children or elderly in the house, night duties, role.

• nanny / childcare₹8k – ₹25k / month

  EzyHelpers quotes INR 8,000-12,000/month part-time, INR 16,000-20,000 full-time and INR 20,000-25,000 live-in for a nanny or babysitter. MyBuddyMaid quotes INR 14,000-24,000/month. Note that Karnataka's notified schedule prices 'child care' with laundry and housekeeping at INR 15,390.62/month Zone I for a full day.

  Moves with: Part-time vs full-time vs live-in, child's age, number of children, training.

• elder care₹15k – ₹30k / month

  EzyHelpers quotes INR 15,000-25,000/month full-time and INR 20,000-30,000 live-in for an elder-care attendant, with part-time priced per visit. MyBuddyMaid quotes INR 15,000-25,000/month for 'non-medical companionship and daily assistance for senior citizens at home'. Karnataka's schedule separately names 'Home Nurses' within the same scheduled employment.

  Moves with: Level of assistance, night duty, live-in vs live-out, training.

How people actually find someone

• Broomees

  Operates in Bangalore alongside Delhi NCR, Pune and Ranchi. The household books online, Broomees sends vetted candidates and states it verifies backgrounds against government records using Aadhaar and police verification; the salary is agreed directly between household and helper.

  Cost: INR 49 booking fee plus 18% GST, plus a monthly membership fee. Broomees states it takes no cut of the worker's salary.

• EzyHelpers

  A Bengaluru-centred placement agency with location-specific pages across the city. It screens and places live-in, full-time and part-time helpers, nannies and caregivers and publishes a detailed Bengaluru salary guide (last updated 24 July 2026).

  Cost: INR 25,000 plus taxes for a live-in placement; part-time and full-time placement fees are quoted on consultation and not published.

• MyBuddyMaid

  Placement platform with a Bangalore city page. The household pays a one-time access fee for a verified candidate pool, interviews, and agrees the salary with the helper directly.

  Cost: One-time access charge: Silver INR 4,999, Gold INR 5,999, Diamond INR 6,999.

• Helper4U

  Pan-India placement marketplace for maids, cooks, nannies, caregivers and drivers; households buy a hiring package to view and interview candidates.

  Cost: Tiered one-off hiring packages paid by the household; states no commission on the worker's salary. Prices not published publicly.

• MyGate

  Used across Bengaluru apartment communities for visitor management and society administration - 27,000+ communities, 5 million+ homes, 50+ cities. Daily help are normally admitted on a code or pass issued by the resident.

  Cost: Paid by the society.

• Domestic Workers Rights Union (DWRU)

  Not a placement route, but the organised counterparty in Bengaluru. DWRU negotiates with the Karnataka Labour Department on domestic workers' wages and grievances and has publicly demanded a separate welfare board, departmental inquiry into employer-worker disputes and four days of paid leave a month. A household that wants to get the terms right can use its published demands as a reference point for what workers themselves consider fair.

In Malleshwaram: Old residential area with deep domestic-help and cook networks; word-of-mouth hiring via market and apartment groups , our own read on the area, without a source behind it, unlike everything above.