How Much Does a Window Washer Make?

Posted on January 13th, 2010 11:20am by Tim Rogers
Filed under Local News

A glorious day at D Magazine HQ! Our building is getting its windows washed. I am fascinated by these guys — mainly because if that were the only way I could feed my family, I would have to find a way to tell my family that they were going to starve. Just watching the window washers swinging on their seemingly rickety rope rigs gives me the fantods. Anyone know what these fellows make?

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8 comments

  1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/19/AR2007041902420.html

    @ 11:49 am on January 13, 2010

  2. If you don’t want to read the entire Washington Post Q&A, here’s the answer:

    Window washer says they make $15 to $16 an hour.

    @ 12:55 pm on January 13, 2010

  3. Not nearly enough. I get queasy just watching them from the indoor comfort of the downtown high rise where I work.

    @ 1:07 pm on January 13, 2010

  4. I love window washing day. Think it would be cool to do it one day.

    @ 1:25 pm on January 13, 2010

  5. I just want to know what a “fantod” is…

    @ 2:39 pm on January 13, 2010

  6. http://www.answers.com/topic/fantod

    @ 2:49 pm on January 13, 2010

  7. At one point we were insuring them at 100% of payroll. If they made $600/wk, then workers comp insurance cost another $600/wk on top.

    @ 3:07 pm on January 13, 2010

  8. Not sure what rates or carriers you were using, but you were getting hosed and paying almost twice the standard state rate.

    @ 4:59 pm on January 13, 2010

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