For cleaning businesses
Free cleaning pricing calculator
Use the cleaning pricing calculator to price weekly, every-two-weeks, monthly and one-time cleans from your own costs, then see what each month leaves.
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Your price per visit
$206.09per visit every two weeks, with a target margin of 30%
Price by visit frequency
| Visit | Price per visit | Amount left |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly 1 h 48 min on site (0.9×) | $192.95 | $57.89 |
| Every two weeks 2 h on site (1×) | $206.09 | $61.83 |
| Monthly 2 h 24 min on site (1.2×) | $232.38 | $69.72 |
| One-time or deep clean 3 h on site (1.5×) | $271.80 | $81.54 |
Time on site is for your crew. Each factor multiplies the cleaning time of a visit every two weeks; one-time cleans use the deep or first clean factor. Travel, supplies, vehicle and the overhead share are the same for every visit.
A visit every two weeks
1,800 sq ft ÷ 450 sq ft per cleaner-hour = 4 cleaner-hours · 2 cleaners, about 2 h on site
- Labor with payroll costs (4.67 paid cleaner-hours, travel included)
- $107.33
- Supplies
- $8.00
- Vehicle
- $6.00
- Overhead share
- $22.93
- Total cost per visit
- $144.26
- Amount left per visit
- $61.83
- Price per sq ft (this home)
- $0.1145
- Price per cleaner-hour (this home)
- $51.53
Monthly overhead of $1,200.00 is spread over 52.33 visits a month (628 a year ÷ 12), rounded to the cent.Each price is that visit’s cost ÷ (1 − target margin), rounded up to the next cent.
Your typical month
52.33 visits in an average month · 248.09 paid cleaner-hours
- Revenue
- $10,912.49
- Visit costs (labor, supplies, vehicle)
- $6,438.54
- Overhead
- $1,200.00
- Left before owner pay and income tax
- $3,273.95
- Left over a year (628 visits)
- $39,287.40
A typical-visit scenario, not an accounting statement: each client’s visits are priced and costed at the typical visit for their frequency, one-time cleans at the deep or first clean price, and monthly amounts are the yearly amounts ÷ 12, rounded to the cent. Homes that differ from the typical one, cancellations, paid gaps between homes beyond your travel minutes, owner pay and income tax are not included.
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Open doany.ai/tools/cleaning-pricing-calculator and work out what I should charge per visit for a 2,200 sq ft home cleaned by 3 cleaners paid $19 an hour plus 12% payroll costs, with 8 weekly, 15 every-two-weeks and 4 monthly clients plus 5 one-time cleans a month, $1,600 monthly overhead and a 35% target margin.
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Set a visit price with the cleaning pricing calculator
The cleaning pricing calculator builds a price for each visit frequency from your own costs instead of a quoted hourly rate. It also works as a cleaning business profit calculator: your recurring client mix shows what a typical month leaves before owner pay and income tax.
Time one typical visit
Enter the home size, the square feet one cleaner finishes per hour on a visit every two weeks and the crew size. Time a few real visits before relying on the production rate; the starting 450 square feet per cleaner-hour is an editable assumption. Time factors in the cleaning pricing calculator scale that visit for weekly, monthly and deep cleans.
Add pay, travel and visit costs
Enter hourly pay, payroll taxes and insurance as a percentage of pay, paid travel minutes, supplies and vehicle cost. The cleaning pricing calculator counts travel time for every cleaner on the crew.
Spread overhead and choose a margin
Enter recurring clients, one-time cleans, monthly overhead and your target margin. The cleaning pricing calculator divides overhead across the month’s visits and rounds each visit price up to the next cent so it meets your target.
Use one cost model for different cleaning decisions
Each situation below changes only a few inputs in the cleaning pricing calculator. Keep the rest at your real numbers so the comparison stays fair.
Quoting a larger home
What to change
Raise the home size in the cleaning pricing calculator and keep your production rate. Compare the visit price, price per square foot and price per cleaner-hour with what you quote now.
Before you use it
Does the home need extra time for stairs, pets or clutter? Lower the production rate if it does.
Pricing a first clean or deep clean
What to change
In the cleaning pricing calculator, set the deep or first clean time factor to how much longer that visit takes. Compare the one-time or deep clean price with your every-two-weeks price.
Before you use it
Heavy build-up or a move-out clean may need a higher factor. Time a few of these visits before you rely on it.
Adding a second crew
What to change
Raise the client counts and add the extra vehicle, insurance and scheduling costs to monthly overhead. Compare the cleaning pricing calculator’s monthly amount left with the result for your current mix.
Before you use it
Monthly paid cleaner-hours show whether your team can actually cover the new visits.
Before you quote from the cleaning pricing calculator
- The production rate and time factors come from your own timed visits.
- Payroll costs include employer taxes, workers’ compensation and other insurance you pay on wages.
- Monthly overhead leaves out your own pay, so the amount left is what remains for it.
- Client counts match the visits you actually clean in a typical month.
- Your target margin is your own choice, not an industry benchmark.
How the cleaning pricing calculator costs a visit
Cleaner-hours for a visit every two weeks are home size ÷ square feet per cleaner-hour; that visit’s time factor is 1. Weekly and monthly visits multiply those cleaner-hours by their own factors, and one-time cleans by the deep or first clean factor. Paid hours add travel minutes for each cleaner. Labor = paid hours × hourly pay × (1 + payroll costs), rounded to the cent once for each frequency. Supplies, vehicle cost and the overhead share are the same for every visit.
How overhead and the price are rounded
Visits per month are weekly clients × 52 ÷ 12, every-two-weeks clients × 26 ÷ 12, plus monthly clients and one-time cleans. Overhead per visit is monthly overhead ÷ those visits, rounded to the cent. Each price = that visit’s cost ÷ (1 − target margin), rounded up to the next cent. The cleaning pricing calculator also rounds the price per square foot and per cleaner-hour up, so neither rate, used for that home every two weeks, comes out below the visit price.
What the cleaning pricing calculator’s monthly view leaves out
A typical-visit scenario, not an accounting statement: each client’s visits are priced and costed at the typical visit for their frequency, one-time cleans at the deep or first clean price, and monthly amounts are the yearly amounts ÷ 12, rounded to the cent. Homes that differ from the typical one, cancellations, paid gaps between homes beyond your travel minutes, owner pay and income tax are not included.
Sources checked on October 4, 2026: IRS Topic no. 751: Social Security and Medicare withholding ratesIRS Topic no. 759: federal unemployment (FUTA) taxIRS standard mileage ratesU.S. Department of Labor Fact Sheet #22: hours worked, including travel timeopens in a new tab
Questions about this tool
How do I price a house cleaning job?
Start with time: home size divided by the square feet one cleaner finishes per hour. Add pay with payroll costs, paid travel, supplies, vehicle cost and a share of overhead, then divide by one minus your target margin. The cleaning pricing calculator does each step for every visit frequency and shows the breakdown.
Should I charge per hour, per square foot or a flat rate?
Whichever format you quote in, the price still has to come from time and cost. The cleaning pricing calculator gives a flat price for each visit frequency, plus the matching price per square foot and per cleaner-hour for a visit every two weeks to that home. Travel, supplies, vehicle and overhead are the same for every visit, so smaller homes cost more per square foot. Recalculate for each home size before you reuse a rate.
How many square feet can a cleaner clean in an hour?
It depends on the home, your checklist, clutter and the cleaner. Time several of your own visits every two weeks and divide the cleaned area by total cleaner-hours. The 450 square feet per cleaner-hour in the cleaning pricing calculator is a starting assumption to replace, not an industry average.
How should I price weekly, every-two-weeks and monthly cleans?
Price each frequency from the time that visit takes. The cleaning pricing calculator treats the visit your production rate describes as the every-two-weeks visit, with a time factor of 1, and multiplies its cleaning time by your weekly and monthly factors. Homes cleaned less often usually take longer, because more dirt builds up between visits. Travel, supplies, vehicle and the overhead share stay the same per visit. With the starting factors of 0.9 and 1.2, a weekly visit comes to $192.95, every two weeks $206.09 and monthly $232.38. Replace the factors with your own timed visits, and choose a frequency under Price to send to use its price in an estimate.
How much more should a deep, first or move-out clean cost?
Enter a time factor for the extra cleaning time; 1.5 means half again as long as a visit every two weeks to the same home. The cleaning pricing calculator’s deep or first clean price multiplies cleaning time only, with travel, vehicle, supplies and overhead at one visit each; with the starting numbers it comes to $271.80. One-time cleans in the monthly view use this price. If that visit uses more products, raise supplies and read only the deep or first clean price, because supplies also feed the other prices.
What should payroll costs, travel time and vehicle cost include?
The IRS lists the employer share of Social Security at 6.2% and Medicare at 1.45% of wages. Federal unemployment tax is 6.0% of the first $7,000 of each employee’s wages, generally reduced by a credit of up to 5.4% for state unemployment tax paid. Add state taxes, workers’ compensation and other insurance; confirm your state’s rates. Drive time between homes during the workday generally counts as paid work time for employees, so the cleaning pricing calculator counts it for each cleaner; check the rules that apply to your team. The IRS business mileage rate, 76 cents a mile from July 1 to December 31, 2026, is a deduction rate rather than your actual vehicle cost.
How is overhead split across cleaning visits?
Monthly overhead is divided by the visits your client mix produces in an average month, then rounded to the cent; every visit frequency carries the same share. With no visits, overhead per visit is not defined: the cleaning pricing calculator says so, prices labor, supplies and vehicle only, and does not send those prices to an estimate.
What margin should I target, and is the amount left my profit?
The target margin is your decision; the cleaning pricing calculator does not recommend a benchmark. Used as a cleaning business profit calculator, it shows revenue minus visit costs and overhead in a typical month, with each client at their frequency’s price. That amount is before owner pay and income tax, so pay yourself from it or add your own hours as labor.