Hire a live-in maid in Bangalore
A live-in maid stays in your home. It is the most demanding arrangement for both sides, and the one that most needs the hours, the rest and the boundaries written down before she starts.
Hire a live-in maid in Bangalore
A live-in maid stays in your home and is there across the day — the arrangement families reach for when there is a new baby, an elderly parent, or nobody home during working hours. It offers real continuity, and it asks a great deal of the person providing it.
Live-in arrangements almost never break down over money. They break down over rest. "Living in" is not the same as "always available", and a role with no fixed off-hours, no private space and no weekly day off will end — usually abruptly, and usually at the worst moment for your household. Settling those three things honestly at the start is the whole job.
What to settle before she moves in
How to hire, in four honest steps
Post your maid job
Share the role, your locality in Bangalore, timings and budget. It takes about two minutes.
Review verified applicants
Compare experience, skills and ID verification at a glance — you always know who you are talking to.
Chat & agree on terms
Settle salary, hours, weekly off and duties over secure in-app chat. You decide the terms.
Sign a digital agreement
What you both agreed is recorded in a simple digital work agreement — clear for both sides.
What sets the rate
Hours and how much of the day is genuinely off, whether cooking or childcare is included, what accommodation you are providing, and how leave works when her family needs her. A live-in role is not a full-time role with a bed attached — it is a different job.
We do not publish a salary table for Bangalore, and that is deliberate. No independent source measures home-help pay reliably below city level, and an invented number would only anchor you to something with nothing behind it. Work it out from the job in front of you and agree it directly — Sevetu takes no commission either way.
How to get a police verification in Bangalore
Sevetu runs an identity (KYC) check — Aadhaar or government ID. That confirms a person is who they say they are. It is not a police or criminal-background check, and we will never describe it as one. What we do and do not check →
If you want a police check as well — and for live-in roles, childcare and drivers it is worth it — you arrange it yourself, and in Bangalore there is an official route. Karnataka State Police handles it through the Police Verification Certificate for domestic servants and housekeeping. Karnataka runs this as a fully online service — you apply with an OTP, upload the documents, and the digitally signed certificate is delivered by email. It is also available through Seva Sindhu and KarnatakaOne. Karnataka State Police — official portal →
Government processes change. Check the official Karnataka State Police site for the current form, fee and documents before you apply. Sevetu is not affiliated with any police department.
Live-in maids by neighbourhood
Each Bangalore area has its own page with the roles households there hire most, and the areas next to it.
Koramangala · Indiranagar · Marathahalli · Sarjapur Road · Electronic City · Bellandur · JP Nagar · Jayanagar · BTM Layout · Hebbal · HSR Layout · Whitefield
Where Sevetu is in Bangalore right now
Sevetu is newest in Bangalore — we started in Bengaluru and are opening city by city. Posting a job is free and takes about two minutes, and verified helpers in your area apply to it. If nobody suitable applies, you have lost nothing but the two minutes. We would rather tell you that than pretend to a roster we do not yet have.
Why hire through Sevetu
ID-verified profiles
Every profile can carry a Verified badge from an identity (KYC) check — Aadhaar / government-ID — so you know who you are letting into your home. (It is an identity check, not a police background check.) How verification works →
Safe, in-app chat
Talk before you decide. Your phone number stays private and every conversation stays on record.
No commission, agreed in writing
You pay the worker directly — Sevetu never takes a cut. Salary, hours, weekly off, leave and notice are documented in a digital work agreement both sides accept.
Frequently asked questions
Six things, in writing: daily hours and which hours are genuinely hers, where she sleeps, meals, the weekly day off, how leave and travel home work, and notice period on both sides. Sevetu records all of it in a digital work agreement. Skipping this is why most live-in arrangements fail.
No — and treating it that way is the fastest route to a helper leaving without notice. She lives in your home; she does not work every waking hour in it. Agree a start time, an end time and a real day off, exactly as you would for any other job.
A private place to sleep with somewhere to keep her things, and access to a bathroom. Be specific about it when you post the job — vagueness here is read, correctly, as a warning sign.
Only if you agree it. Cooking is a separate skill and a separate job. Many families want a live-in maid who also cooks; that is a legitimate role, but say so upfront and pay for both.
We do not publish a figure. Live-in pay is the least reliably sourced of any domestic role and depends on hours, tasks, accommodation and whether cooking or childcare is included. Agree it directly — Sevetu takes no commission either way.
Yes. Of all the arrangements here, this is the one where it is most worth the effort — someone is living in your home. Karnataka State Police runs a police verification certificate for domestic workers as a fully online service; the section above explains it. Sevetu does identity verification only.
A full-time maid goes home at night. Live-in does not, which changes the questions entirely. Compare full-time →
Agree it before she starts — a month either way is common. For live-in it matters more than usual, because leaving the job also means leaving the accommodation.
Verified home help, from your phone
Sevetu is live on the App Store and Google Play. Download the app and post your Bangalore job in minutes.