golfgal, it depends on whose house the cleaning lady is cleaning 🙂 If she’s the cleaning lady for one of my brother-in-laws in OC who owns his own law firm and services only corporate clients (meaning he makes a lot of money) then she’s probably making about $600 month just taking care of his house. If she has ten other clients like him who are paying her similar wages then she’s making about $6000/mo = $72000/yr. I know that his cleaning lady has at least one of her kids at either UCLA or USC. Not bad for a cleaning lady 🙂

And if the cleaning lady is using her Toyota Sequoia for work then she’s writing off the vehicle usage as a business expense as well: gas, insurance, maintenance, payments.