How much should I charge for house cleaning?

Work it out from your costs. Estimate the hours a clean takes and multiply by labor cost, add supplies and overhead, then divide by one minus your target margin. That price covers your costs and earns the margin you chose.

How do I price house cleaning by square foot?

Use square footage to estimate how many hours a clean takes, based on your own past jobs, then price from those hours. A flat price per square foot ignores condition, pets, and clutter, which also change the time.

How do I price a commercial cleaning job?

Use the same cost-and-margin method. Estimate the hours per visit, add supplies and overhead, then apply your margin. Multiply the visit price by the visits per month to check the monthly total against your contract.

Are the house cleaning example costs typical?

No. The starting numbers are illustrative inputs, not market rates or benchmarks for house cleaning. Replace them with your own hours, labor cost, materials, overhead, and target margin.

Free house cleaning pricing calculator

Work out how much to charge for house cleaning.

Start with an illustrative house clean, then edit hours, labor, supplies, overhead, and margin to match your own service.

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$160.00

Suggested price to charge

Total cost: $120.00
Estimated profit: $40.00
Actual margin: 25.0%
Markup on cost: 33.3%

Price = total job cost ÷ (1 − target margin). Profit equals price minus cost.

Example assumptions are illustrative, not market benchmarks. The price does not include taxes, and it is not a quote or tax advice.

This calculator uses only the values entered here. Editing inputs does not send them to a server.

How to price a house cleaning job

Start from what a clean costs you, then add the profit you want.

Estimate the total worker hours for the clean, across everyone working on it.
Multiply the hours by your labor cost per hour.
Add materials, such as cleaning supplies and consumables.
Add overhead per job, such as insurance, vehicle, tools, software, and admin time.
Choose the profit margin you want, then divide total cost by one minus that margin to get the price.

How much to charge for house cleaning

Customers may ask for a price per visit, per hour, or per square foot. Whichever you quote, work backward from cost: estimate the hours, add supplies and overhead, then apply your margin.

Square footage helps you estimate hours, not set the price. Two homes of the same size can take different time depending on condition, pets, and how often they are cleaned. Use your own job history to estimate hours for each size.

For commercial cleaning, price one visit the same way, then multiply by the visits per month to check the monthly total.

Margin vs markup

The calculator sizes the price from your target margin and shows the markup on cost beside it. Markup is always a higher percentage than margin on the same job. See the margin vs markup explanation and a worked example on the main job pricing calculator.

Need a quick conversion? Use the free markup calculator to turn margin into markup or find a selling price from cost.

Trade pricing calculator questions

Use your own records and assumptions. Examples are illustrative and results are not guarantees.

How much should I charge for house cleaning?: Work it out from your costs. Estimate the hours a clean takes and multiply by labor cost, add supplies and overhead, then divide by one minus your target margin. That price covers your costs and earns the margin you chose.
How do I price house cleaning by square foot?: Use square footage to estimate how many hours a clean takes, based on your own past jobs, then price from those hours. A flat price per square foot ignores condition, pets, and clutter, which also change the time.
How do I price a commercial cleaning job?: Use the same cost-and-margin method. Estimate the hours per visit, add supplies and overhead, then apply your margin. Multiply the visit price by the visits per month to check the monthly total against your contract.
Are the house cleaning example costs typical?: No. The starting numbers are illustrative inputs, not market rates or benchmarks for house cleaning. Replace them with your own hours, labor cost, materials, overhead, and target margin.

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