Filipino maids have already occupied Shanghai's high-grade household service market.

Currently there are some two thousand of them had serving families in Shanghai through different ways, and the number is still increasing.

A household service company wrote on its website, "All our maids have come to China through legitimate ways and have been strictly selected. We have also given them all the necessary training."

The Filipino maids have various assignments: taking care of children, teaching them English, doing household chores, etc.

Their lowest salary is 3,500 yuan (US$438) per month. However, their clients have to pay them 14 thousand yuan for training fees, visa charges, life insurance and China air trip tickets. So, hiring an ordinary Filipino maid would cost one at least 60 thousand yuan (US$7,514) annually.

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