Find a maid in Chennai near you
Find a trusted maid for cleaning, dishes, laundry and everyday housework anywhere in Chennai. Review ID-verified profiles, chat safely, and put the terms in writing — you agree the wage directly, with no commission.
Hiring a maid in Chennai
Most Chennai households look for Tamil-speaking help first — it is the practical difference between instructions understood and instructions guessed at. Whatever you call the role, the hard part is the same: you are letting a stranger into your home every day, usually on nothing more than a phone number passed along by a neighbour. Sevetu changes the order of that — you see an ID-verified profile, you chat before you commit, and you write the terms down.
Chennai hiring turns on language and food more than anywhere else. A cook who does not know how to get the sambar right, or a helper who cannot follow instructions in Tamil, will not last the month however good the reference was. On Sevetu you post what you need, maids in your part of Chennai apply, and you choose. Set the tasks, the days and the timings; agree the salary directly. Sevetu never takes a commission, so the wage you agree is the wage she keeps.
What kind of maid can you hire?
How to hire, in four honest steps
Post your maid job
Share the role, your locality in Chennai, 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 should you pay maids in Chennai?
What actually sets the rate
Hours, how many people live in the house, exactly which tasks are included, whether the role is live-in, and how far the maid has to travel to reach you. Two households on the same street can pay very differently and both be fair.
Ask your own street first
An ILO and IIHS study of domestic work in Indian cities found households calibrate to the running rate in their own neighbourhood, and are reluctant to break it — which is why pay clusters tightly inside one society in Chennai and jumps between them. Your building is a better guide than any city-wide average.
Then put it in writing
Salary, hours, weekly off, paid leave, notice period and festival bonus. Agreeing all six at the start is the single best thing you can do to make the arrangement last.
We do not publish a salary table for Chennai, and that is deliberate. No independent source measures home-help pay reliably at city level, and a number we invented would only anchor you to a figure 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 Chennai
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 Chennai there is an official route. Tamil Nadu Police handles it through Domestic Help verification, on the Tamil Nadu Police eServices portal. Tamil Nadu Police lets you start a domestic help verification online without visiting a station first — you enter your mobile number, verify the OTP, fill in the employer details and upload a government photo ID. Tamil Nadu Police — official portal →
Government processes change. Check the official Tamil Nadu Police site for the current form, fee and documents before you apply. Sevetu is not affiliated with any police department.
Maids across Chennai
Sevetu is rolling out across Chennai, neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Post your job with your locality and verified maids near you can apply — including Adyar · Velachery · Anna Nagar · T. Nagar · Perungudi · Porur · Nungambakkam · Besant Nagar · Thoraipakkam · Mylapore · Ambattur · Sholinganallur · Guindy · Chromepet and more. Posting your exact area rather than just "Chennai" gets you fewer applicants but far more who can realistically make the commute every day.
Where Sevetu is in Chennai right now
Sevetu is newest in Chennai — 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
Post your job with your actual locality — Adyar, Velachery, Anna Nagar or wherever you are — rather than just "Chennai". You will get fewer applicants and far more who can realistically reach you every day, which is what decides whether a hire lasts.
We deliberately do not publish a salary table. Pay for house help is set street by street, not city-wide, and any number we printed would anchor you to something we invented. Work it out from the hours, the number of people in the house, the tasks, and what is normal in your own building — then agree it directly with her.
Profiles can carry a Verified badge from an identity (KYC) check against Aadhaar or a government ID, and you can see experience and profile completeness before you chat. It is an identity check, not a police or criminal background check, so please use your own judgement as well.
Yes, and you do it yourself — Tamil Nadu Police runs Domestic Help verification, on the Tamil Nadu Police eServices portal. Sevetu verifies identity; it does not and cannot run police checks. See the section above for how the Chennai process works.
Yes. You set the timings when you post — a couple of hours a day, full-time, or live-in — and only maids who can work those hours apply.
There is no fee to compare. A placement agency typically charges one month's salary as a placement fee, and a local broker often takes a cut every month. Sevetu charges neither the household nor the worker anything — you pay only the agreed salary, directly. What you give up is the agency doing the shortlisting for you.
Most speak some combination of Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and English. Applicants list their languages on their profile, so you can filter for someone you can actually give instructions to.
Salary, working hours, days off, which tasks are included, leave, notice period and any festival bonus. Sevetu records it in a digital work agreement both sides accept — which is mostly there to prevent the arguments that start in month three.
Verified home help, from your phone
Sevetu is live on the App Store and Google Play. Download the app and post your Chennai job in minutes.