This is a challenging category to survey, because the amount expended on wages is very discretionary and fluctuates greatly.  Where owners’ remuneration/drawings/salaries are clearly identifiable, these expenses are excluded from the survey. (Please see list of excluded income and expenses.)  The intention is to provide information on wages paid to cleaners only, with the exclusion of payments made to minders/managers, administration staff or maintenance wages. As such the charts below report the results for both filtered and unfiltered datasets.

The unfiltered dataset includes “outlier” samples where there are zero wages recorded as paid to cleaners, as well as samples where wages represent over 20 percent of revenue, which seems excessive. This dataset also includes accounts which also show payments made to managers/minders and administration staff, however those sums are not included as cleaners’ wages.

The filtered dataset excludes samples where there are either zero wages or wages over 20 percent of revenue and also excludes samples which also show wages for minders/managers, administration or maintenance wages.