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House cleaning price calculator

Price a clean from your own cleaning speed, pay rate, supplies, drive time and target margin. Then see what weekly, biweekly and monthly service comes to.

Estimates only. This calculator uses only the numbers you type. It doesn’t know local market rates, taxes, insurance or your overhead unless you build them in. The starting multipliers and example hints are placeholders for you to change, not industry figures. Nothing you type is sent or saved; it all runs in your browser.

1 · How long the clean takes

Estimate cleaning time from Pick whichever you actually track

Cleaners on the job Splits on-site time; everyone’s drive time is paid

Home size (sq ft) Finished living area

Your cleaning pace (sq ft per labor hour) Standard clean, one person. Time a few jobs to get yours

2 · Type of clean

Cleaning type Multiplies the standard cleaning time

Time multipliers Placeholders. Edit to match your own jobs

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3 · Costs and margin

Hourly labor rate ($ per cleaner-hour) Wages plus payroll costs, or what you want to pay yourself

Supplies cost per job ($) Products, cloths, bags, vacuum wear

Drive time per job (minutes) Your share of travel to and from this home

Target margin (%) Profit as a share of the price

4 · Recurring discounts (optional)

Weekly discount (%) 0 = no discount

Biweekly discount (%) 0 = no discount

Monthly discount (%) 0 = no discount

Price per clean

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Weekly service

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Biweekly service

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Monthly service

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Fill in the fields to see the math.

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Jobber and Housecall Pro both list online booking, quotes and invoices on their entry plans: Jobber Core is $29/mo billed annually, Housecall Pro Basic is $59/mo billed annually (1 user each, as checked Oct 10, 2026).

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Paying a crew? Gusto lists payroll from $49/mo + $6/mo per person. See Gusto → affiliate link

See the side-by-side: Jobber vs Housecall Pro for cleaners.

The formula

Standard labor hours: square footage = sq ft ÷ pace (sq ft per labor hour) bedrooms/baths = (base min + bedrooms × min/bedroom + bathrooms × min/bathroom) ÷ 60 minutes = labor minutes ÷ 60 Cleaning hours = standard labor hours × cleaning-type multiplier Drive hours = drive minutes ÷ 60 × number of cleaners Labor cost = (cleaning hours + drive hours) × hourly labor rate Direct cost = labor cost + supplies per job Price per clean = direct cost ÷ (1 − target margin %) Recurring visit = price per clean × (1 − that frequency’s discount %) Per month = weekly visit × 52 ÷ 12 · biweekly visit × 26 ÷ 12 · monthly visit × 1 On-site time = cleaning hours ÷ number of cleaners

Margin here is profit as a percentage of the price, not a markup on cost. At a 25% margin, $0.25 of every $1 you charge is left after the direct costs above. A recurring discount comes out of that margin, so the calculator also shows the margin left after each discount. Overhead like insurance, software and marketing isn’t included unless you add it to your hourly rate or supplies figure.

Worked example

A 2,000 sq ft home at a pace of 500 sq ft per labor hour is 4.0 labor hours for a standard clean (multiplier 1.0). With 2 cleaners each driving 20 minutes, add 0.667 drive hours, for 4.667 paid hours. At $25 per cleaner-hour that’s $116.67 in labor. Add $8 in supplies for a direct cost of $124.67. At a 25% margin: $124.67 ÷ 0.75 = $166.22 per clean. With a 15% weekly discount, each weekly visit is $141.29, or $612.25 a month (× 52 ÷ 12, using unrounded figures), leaving an 11.8% margin. With a 10% biweekly discount, each visit is $149.60, or $324.13 a month (16.7% margin). Monthly service with no discount is $166.22 a month (25% margin).

Keeping recurring clients organized? Both tools in our cleaning comparison list online booking, quotes and invoicing, so you can save a price per client and rebook it. See Jobber vs Housecall Pro for small cleaning businesses → Not sure what hourly rate to use? Try the hourly rate calculator.