Complete guide to how much you should pay domestic workers

Labour secretary Raychelle Omamo last week gazette new regulations that set the minimum monthly salaries an employer can pay a domestic worker in every major town, compulsory weekly off days and overtime compensation.

The legal notice granted domestic workers in Nairobi a 12 per cent pay increase, effectively pushing their monthly salary to Sh10, 954 from Sh9, 781 last year.

Here are other workers whose pay was increased along with the gazetted rates;