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Free house cleaning price calculator: price per visit

Price a house cleaning from the home's size, bedrooms, and bathrooms. Pick a standard, deep, or move-out clean, add a percent for a home that needs extra work, take a recurring discount for weekly or every-2-weeks clients, add the oven, fridge, windows, or laundry, apply your minimum, and see the price per visit and about per month. Then print a one-page quote. No signup, and nothing you type leaves your browser.

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Set your prices once, then type in each home. Jump to the price, how to price house cleaning, or what a house cleaning quote should include. Texts for booking, reminders, and reviews are on the cleaning business text templates page.

Sample prices The prices below are made up so you can see how it works. Type in your own prices.

1. Your business and the client

2. Your prices

The base price for a standard clean comes from the home size. The quote uses the first row the home fits in: a 1,850 sq ft home uses the "up to 2,000" row. Keep the sizes going from smallest to largest.

Bedrooms and bathrooms

Clean types

150% means a deep clean costs 1.5 times the standard clean price for the same home. Rename a type or add one in the blank row.

How often and the recurring discount

The discount comes off the cleaning price, not the add-ons. Visits per month is used for the "about per month" line (every 2 weeks is about 2.17 visits a month). Set a discount to 0 if you don't offer one.

Condition

For a home that hasn't been cleaned in a while. Many cleaners use it for the first visit only.

Add-ons

Minimum, rounding, and your hourly target

3. This home

Add-ons for this home

Leave Qty blank for 1.

4. The price

5. Notes for the quote

Put the example notes back

Quote text to copy

Send this with the PDF, or read it over the phone. It fills in from the calculator, so check it before you send.

How to price house cleaning

1. Know your hourly number. Add up what a cleaner-hour costs you (pay, supplies, driving, insurance, and the time you spend on quotes and scheduling) plus your margin. The free pricing calculator works it out.
2. Time your cleans. Note how long a standard clean takes for each home size, and how much each extra bedroom and bathroom adds. Your own job notes are the best source.
3. Turn time into prices. Base price = your hourly number × the hours for that size. With made-up numbers: if a cleaner-hour has to bring in $45 and a 2,000 sq ft home with no bedrooms or bathrooms counted takes about 2.25 cleaner-hours, that's about $100.
4. Price what changes the work. A percent for deep and move-out cleans, a condition percent for a heavy first visit, add-ons priced on their own, and a minimum so small homes still pay for the drive.
5. Check the cleaner-hours. Step 4 shows how many cleaner-hours the price pays for at your target rate. If the visit will take longer than that, the price is too low for that home.

Prices for house cleaning vary a lot by city and by home. Set yours from your own costs and times, and change them in step 2.

How the math works

• Standard clean price = the base price for the home size + bedrooms × your bedroom price + full bathrooms × your full bath price + half bathrooms × your half bath price.
• Clean type = standard clean price × (the type's percent − 100%). A standard clean at 100% adds nothing.
• Condition extra = (standard clean price + clean type extra) × the condition percent.
• Recurring discount = cleaning price × the discount for how often. It comes off the cleaning only, not the add-ons.
• Add-ons = quantity × price. A blank quantity counts as 1.
• Price per visit = cleaning price − discount + add-ons, raised to your minimum if it's lower, then rounded to the nearest dollar amount you picked.
• Total per visit = price per visit + sales tax. About per month = total per visit × visits per month.
• Cleaner-hours = price per visit ÷ your target hourly rate, to the nearest quarter hour. Hours on site = cleaner-hours ÷ the number of cleaners.

The made-up sample: a 1,850 sq ft home uses the $100 base, plus 3 bedrooms ($45.00), 2 full bathrooms ($50.00), and 1 half bathroom ($12.00) = $207.00 for a standard clean. Needs extra adds 15% ($31.05) = $238.05. The every-2-weeks discount of 15% takes off $35.71, and 3 bed linen changes plus pet hair add $44.00 = $246.34, rounded to $245.00 per visit, or about $531.65 a month. At $45 an hour that pays for 5.50 cleaner-hours, about 2.75 hours on site for 2 cleaners.

Booked the client? Bill each visit or a month of visits with the house cleaning invoice template or the blank free invoice maker, and give a receipt with the house cleaning receipt template or the free receipt maker. Want a quote with your own line items instead? Start from the house cleaning estimate template (its sample is a move-out deep clean) or the blank free estimate maker.

What a house cleaning quote should include

A clear quote answers the client's questions before they ask, and gives you something to point to when a first visit runs long or a client skips a week. Put these on every quote:

• Who and where. Your business, phone, and email, the client's name, and the home's address.
• The home. Square feet, bedrooms, full bathrooms, and half bathrooms, so the client sees what the price is based on and you can check it at the walkthrough.
• The type of clean and what it covers. Standard, deep, move-in or move-out, or rental turnover, with the rooms and tasks it includes, so the add-ons are clear.
• The condition and the first visit. Whether the first visit costs more because the home hasn't been cleaned in a while, and that the regular price starts after it.
• How often and any recurring discount. One-time, weekly, every 2 weeks, every 4 weeks, or monthly, and that the discount covers the cleaning, not the add-ons.
• Add-ons priced on their own. Inside the oven, fridge, and cabinets, windows, blinds, baseboards, laundry, and linens, each billed only when it's done.
• The price per visit, tax, and about per month. The minimum if it applies, sales tax if you charge it, the total per visit, and roughly what a month costs on that schedule.
• Entry, pets, and priorities. How you get in (key, lockbox, door code), any pets, and the rooms the client cares about most. Keep the actual codes out of the quote.
• Skips, cancellations, and lockouts. How much notice the client gives to skip or move a visit, and what a late cancellation or lockout costs.
• How to book and pay. A signature line or "reply yes to book", when payment is due, and the ways you take it.

House cleaning pricing questions

How much should I charge to clean a house?

Work it out from your own costs and speed. Find what each cleaner-hour has to bring in (the free pricing calculator helps), then time how long your cleans take for each home size and for each extra bedroom and bathroom. The price for a home is that time multiplied by your hourly number. The prices on this page are made-up samples so the calculator works right away. They aren't market prices, so type in yours.

Should I price house cleaning by the square foot, by the room, or by the hour?

This calculator uses a mix: a base price by home size, plus a price for each bedroom and bathroom, because bathrooms take the longest. Clients get a flat price per visit, which is easier to say yes to than an hourly rate. Hourly pricing can make sense for a job you can't size up yet, like a heavy first clean or a hoarding situation, as long as you tell the client the estimated hours up front.

How much more should a deep clean or move-out clean cost?

Here the clean type is a percent of the standard clean price, so a deep clean at 150% costs 1.5 times a standard clean of the same home. Time a few deep cleans and move-outs and set the percents from your own numbers. The sample percents (150% deep, 180% move-in or move-out, 110% rental turnover) are made up.

Should recurring clients get a discount?

Many cleaners charge less per visit for weekly or every-2-weeks clients, because a home cleaned often takes less time and the schedule is steady income. Here the discount comes off the cleaning price only, so add-ons stay at full price. Set it to 0% for any schedule where you don't want one. The sample discounts (20% weekly, 15% every 2 weeks, 10% every 4 weeks or monthly) are made up.

How do I price a first clean for a home that hasn't been cleaned in a while?

Add a condition percent. Pick Needs extra or Heavy in step 3 and the calculator adds that percent to the cleaning price, shown as its own line. Many cleaners use it for the first visit only, then quote the regular visit at Kept up. Make two quotes so the client sees why the first visit costs more. The 15% and 30% in the sample are made up.

What minimum should I set for a small home?

Enough to cover driving out, setup, and the time of a short clean. One way to set it: time a small clean from leaving the last home to leaving this one, and multiply by your hourly target. Any quote below the minimum is raised to it, and the calculator shows the raise as its own line. The $120 in the sample is made up.

Do I charge sales tax on house cleaning?

It depends on your state, and sometimes your city. Most states don't tax residential cleaning, but some do. Check with your state's revenue department or an accountant, then type your rate in step 3, or leave it blank if you don't charge tax. This is general information, not tax or legal advice.