This time, the butler didn’t do it. That’s because he was laid off.

And when the wealthy folks of the three Bs Beverly Hills, Brentwood and Bel Air send their domestics packing, that means boom times for businesses that can offer some household services at lower costs.

Jeannette Jones, owner of the Purveyor of Time concierge in Encino, reports that her revenue is running 15 percent to 20 percent higher than last year.

“I think people are using our service more so they don’t have to hire someone on a full-time basis,” Jones said.

She bills $49 an hour for taking the car to get washed, picking up mail, driving to the airport and even going grocery shopping. She has four full-time employees and often hires freelancers from the membership of the Los Angeles Society of Corporate Concierge, a local trade group.

On the corporate side, Richard Sain, president of the local concierge society, said companies are asking concierges to do work that secretaries and assistants used to do.

“They’ve either cut back on staff or the secretaries don’t have time anymore for these kinds of tasks,” he said.

Sain, who works for office building owner Douglas Emmett Inc., does concierge work for tenants of the properties. He said clients have new requests for concierges: They want good deals on travel and tickets to theme parks and movies.

“The big question from clients now is: What kind of discount can you get me?” he said. “We can get movie and theme park tickets at about half-price. If they had to pay full price, they couldn’t do these family outings.”