Colf and badanti: the minimum you must be paid from 2026

Every year a commission made up of the Ministry of Labour, the employers' associations and the trade unions meets and updates the minimum rates for domestic work. For 2026 it met on 11 February 2026, and the new amounts apply from 1 January 2026. The increase is 1.00 %, the change in the ISTAT index.

The agreement is the CCNL Colf e Badanti 2025–2028, signed on 28 October 2025 by FIDALDO and DOMINA — the employers' associations — with FILCAMS CGIL, FISASCAT CISL, UILTUCS and FEDERCOLF. We spell it out because more than one collective agreement exists for domestic work and they look alike: these amounts belong to this one. The official text is in the CNEL contract archive.

All the figures are below. They are minimums: pay cannot go below them, it can go above.

First question: do you sleep there or not?

Even before your level, what changes the pay is whether you are convivente — you sleep in the house where you work — or not.

• Live-in workers have a monthly minimum.
• Workers who are not live-in have an hourly minimum.

These are not two ways of saying the same thing: they are two different tables, and each is read on its own.

If you live in the house: monthly minimums

Level	Minimum per month
A	€ 908.10
A super	€ 958.55
B	€ 983.16
B super	€ 1,053.39
C	€ 1,123.63
C super	€ 1,193.84
D	€ 1,404.51 + € 207.69
D super	€ 1,474.73 + € 207.69

Levels D and D super always get a separate item of € 207.69 a month, which the contract calls indennità di funzione. It is not an optional bonus: it is part of the minimum.

If you do not live in the house: hourly minimums

Level	Minimum per hour
A	€ 6.51
A super	€ 6.76
B	€ 7.01
B super	€ 7.45
C	€ 7.86
C super	€ 8.30
D	€ 9.57
D super	€ 9.97

These are amounts for every hour worked. To get a monthly figure you multiply by the hours you actually do: 25 hours a week at level B super starts from € 7.45 × 25, every week.

The thirty-hour case

A live-in worker at level B, B super or C can also be hired on reduced hours, up to 30 a week, as long as the schedule sits inside a single band of the day — the bands and the rest periods are explained in the article on how many hours you work and when you can go out — and the agreement is in writing. The minimum is then lower, because the hours are fewer:

Level	Minimum per month (up to 30 hours)
B	€ 702.25
B super	€ 737.39
C	€ 814.60

One thing to watch: even on reduced hours, food and lodging remain due in full.

Night work has its own tables

Night work is not calculated by adding a percentage to the daytime minimum: it has its own amounts.

Type of arrangement	Level	Per month
Night care, self-sufficient person	B super	€ 1,211.38
Night care, non-self-sufficient person	C super	€ 1,372.91
Night care, non-self-sufficient person	D super	€ 1,695.99
Night presence only	single level	€ 811.09

There is also the case of someone hired to cover the rest days of another worker caring for a non-self-sufficient person: that is paid by the hour, € 8.91 at level C super and € 10.75 at level D super.

Food and lodging are worth € 6.66 a day

If your employer gives you meals and somewhere to sleep, that has a value written into the contract — it is used to calculate contributions and it counts when the job ends.

Item	Per day
Breakfast and/or lunch	€ 2.33
Dinner	€ 2.33
Lodging	€ 2.00
Total	€ 6.66

If food and lodging are not provided, these amounts are owed to you in money.

The allowances added on top of the minimum

Beyond the minimum for your level, the contract provides amounts that are added when the case applies:

• € 207.69 a month — function allowance, for levels D and D super.
• € 138.54 a month — for a baby sitter graded at level B super, for as long as at least one of the children she cares for has not yet turned six (€ 97.06 a month, or € 0.84 an hour, on the reduced thirty-hour table).
• € 119.66 a month — for a worker at level C super or D super caring for more than one non-self-sufficient person (€ 0.70 an hour in hourly arrangements).
• € 30.27 a month — for levels B, B super and C super holding a valid UNI 11766:2019 quality certification. You must notify your employer in writing and hand over a copy; when it expires, the allowance stops.

The last three can be absorbed by any superminimo you already receive: if you earn above the minimum, your employer may treat that part as already included.

The minimum is not the whole wage

These tables give the starting point. On top go, where they apply:

• seniority increases (scatti di anzianità);
• the superminimo, whatever was agreed above the minimum;
• increases for overtime, night work, Sundays and public holidays;
• the thirteenth month (tredicesima);
• holidays and, at the end of the job, the TFR (severance pay).

And there are the INPS contributions, paid by your employer, which are not a favour: they are what will one day become your pension, and what unemployment and maternity benefits are built on.

How to check your own pay

Three steps, in this order:

1. Find your level. Not the one you were told out loud: the one written in your hiring letter and on your payslip. If you care for a non-self-sufficient person and hold a recognised diploma, the level is D super, not C super.
2. Check whether you are live-in or not, and read the right table.
3. Compare it with what you receive. A lower figure does not necessarily mean bad faith: levels are often written down wrongly, or the hours on paper are not the hours you do.

If the numbers do not add up, take them to a patronato or a trade union: it is free, and it is their job to tell you whether there is a difference to claim. Bahay Italia is not a patronato and certifies no amount: here you find the official figures and how to read them.

These amounts apply from 1 January 2026 and will change at the next annual update. The date at the top of this page says when we last checked them.

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