How Much Should I Charge for a Cleaning Job?
You charged what the last cleaner charged. Then the house took five hours, not three, plus the drive across town. Divide the price by the hours and the number hurts.
Put in your own numbers. The calculator adds your overhead, prices the job to the margin you want, and shows what you keep.
Cleaning Job Price Calculator
- Materials$15.00
- Labour$120.00
- Travel and Parking$20.00
- Overhead$23.25
- Job cost$178.25
Questions
Should I charge for cleaning by the hour or by the visit?
Homeowners like a set price per visit. Work it out from the hours the clean takes, then quote the visit. Put in the hours here and the calculator gives you the price per visit.
What goes into supplies for a cleaning job?
The products, cloths and bags, and the wear on your vacuum and mop. Add them up for a month and divide by your visits to get a cost per visit.
Markup or margin: which should I use to price a cleaning job?
Price from margin. Markup is your profit as a share of your cost. Margin is your profit as a share of the price. They are not the same number: mark a $1,000 cost up 30% and you charge $1,300, but your margin is 23%, because $300 is 23% of $1,300. Price from the margin you want and you know what you keep.
Should overhead go into the price of a cleaning job?
Yes. Your truck, insurance, phone, tools and the hours you spend quoting jobs you don't win are all paid for by the jobs you do win. A simple way to set it: add up last year's overhead, divide it by last year's job costs, and use that percentage here.
How do I turn this price into a cleaning quote?
Sign up for HomeJet free and build the quote with a line for each part of the job: materials, labour and the extras. HomeJet adds your sales tax. The quote stays on the job with the photos and notes, so when it's accepted your crew already has what they need and the invoice comes from the same lines. It's free for one-person businesses, with no credit card.
You Priced the Margin. Now Keep It.
A good price only holds if the job runs clean. In HomeJet the quote, the photos, the notes and your crew's updates live on one job, so nobody chases details by text and nothing falls through the cracks. Less chaos, fewer mistakes, more of this margin kept. Free for one-person businesses, no credit card.