Household staff, kept legal
For anyone who employs a housekeeper, gardener, cook, driver, nanny or caretaker at their home in Mexico, full time or a few days a week.
What the law asks of you
When someone works at your house, Mexican law treats you as their employer. In short, you need to:
- Register them with IMSS, Mexico's social security institute, and pay the contributions. Registration is mandatory, and employers who skip it can be fined.
- Pay at least the minimum wage for household work. It changes every January.
- Respect the limits on working hours and the weekly rest, and pay extra when they work a public holiday.
- Give paid vacation plus a vacation premium. The number of days grows with each year of service.
- Pay aguinaldo, a year-end bonus of at least 15 days' wages, before December 20.
- If the job ends, settle the final pay and, in some cases, severance.
Casa al Día turns each of these into a document, an amount or a reminder.
What you get
Set up once, in English
Enter your worker's details: name, CURP, their IMSS number (NSS) if they already have one, schedule, whether they live in, and pay. Casa al Día checks the arrangement against this year's rules for minimum wage, hours, rest days and holidays. If something's off, it tells you what and why.
A contract you can read
A contract in Mexican Spanish, with the English translation beside it. The Spanish text is the one that counts legally; the English is there so you know exactly what you're signing. Your worker gets their own copy in Spanish.
IMSS registration, two ways
- Guided. A step-by-step checklist for IMSS's online registration, with every answer ready to copy from what you've already entered, and a link to IMSS's portal.
- Done for you (US$79, once). You upload the documents and a signed authorization. Our team then registers your worker and posts the first payment slip in the app.
Either way, you see an estimate of the monthly cost before you register, and our suggestion on whether to prepay by the month, two months, six months or year. We remind you before each payment is due. With the Concierge add-on, our team posts each official payment slip in the app with its due date.
Pay stubs in Spanish
Casa al Día prepares a pay stub every pay period. Once you confirm your worker has agreed to receive messages on WhatsApp, we send it to them there. If they'd rather not use WhatsApp, they get it by email. You pay your worker as you do now, in cash or by transfer, and mark the stub paid.
Vacation, holidays and aguinaldo
A running vacation balance with the premium, holiday pay when they work a public holiday, and the aguinaldo amount, with a reminder well before the December deadline.
If the job ends
An estimate of the final pay and any severance, with the breakdown of how we got there. Have a labor lawyer review it before you act on it.
Your worker's data
Your worker's CURP and NSS, and your own RFC if you add it, are encrypted, shown masked, and every time someone views them, it's logged. Your worker never needs an account. Read our privacy policy for the details.
What stays with you
- You pay. Your worker's wages, IMSS and Infonavit contributions go directly from you. They never pass through Casa al Día.
- You decide. Our amounts are estimates, each with a "how we calculated this" breakdown. We're not a law firm, and nothing here is legal advice.
Price
Staff is US$12 a month for one worker, plus US$5 a month for each extra worker. Or pay US$120 a year for one worker. Prices are in US dollars.