Household labour
HousePay is that record for a nanny, cleaner, gardener, or casual worker. This site explains the labour practice behind it in South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States, and what the employer and the employee each get from keeping it.
The wage floors, contributions, and leave rules below are the figures loaded in HousePay on 8 October 2026. A household still checks the official source before it relies on a number.
Two sides of the same book
The employer keeps one household book: who works, which days count, the wage that was entered, the signed contract, and the permission to work. A payslip is drafted from those days. Pay under the statutory floor stays a draft, and so does a payslip when a required work permission is missing or out of date. Proof of payment is stored with the wage. The month and the year sit beside the household budget, with cleaner, nanny, garden, and maintenance kept apart.
The employee has a payslip for the period, with ordinary time kept apart from overtime, Sunday work, and public holidays where that country uses those buckets. In South Africa the same payslip carries the tax-year running total and the annual leave accrued and taken. The signed contract stays on the person and can be opened again. Nationality is the country the household chooses. It is never inferred from a name. A casual job keeps a description of the work and the amount paid.
Four countries
Wage rules follow the country where the work is done. The employee can come from anywhere. Each guide states the floor, the time rules, the contributions, the leave, the right-to-work check, and the documents the record can hold.
National minimum wage for domestic workers, a 45-hour week, UIF, BCEA leave, and an IRP5 record from issued payslips.
National Living Wage by age, 5.6 weeks of paid holiday, Category A National Insurance, and a Home Office right-to-work check.
Federal Decree-Law 9 of 2022, the MOHRE contract wage, Wage Protection System pay, and leave after the first months of service.
The federal minimum, overtime after 40 hours for a live-out employee, Social Security and Medicare, FUTA, and Form I-9.
October 2026
A single briefing of the four countries: the wage, the time, the contributions, the leave, and what the household record keeps for each side. Read it here, or take the PDF with you.
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