House Cleaning Price Calculator

How to use this house cleaning price calculator

1. Pick how you measure the home: by square feet, or by bedrooms and bathrooms if the client doesn't know the size.
2. Enter your cleaning speed in square feet per cleaner-hour. If you've never measured it, leave the default of 500 and fix it later.
3. Choose the type of clean (standard, deep or move-in/out) and how often you'll come back.
4. Enter your hourly rate per cleaner and your team size. For recurring work, check the discount it pre-fills and change it to your own.
5. Tick any add-ons, then copy the quote line and paste it into your estimate, text or invoice.

The yellow panel shows your price per visit, how long you'll be on site, what you really earn per cleaner-hour, and the monthly revenue the client is worth if the job recurs.

How the house cleaning price is calculated

The calculator prices the job by time. It works out how many cleaner-hours the home needs, charges your hourly rate for them, takes off any recurring discount, and adds flat-priced extras.

Time on site is cleaner-hours divided by team size. The price is rounded to the nearest dollar, because nobody quotes $183.47 for a clean.

Worked example

A 2,000 sq ft home, a standard clean every two weeks, a team of two, $50 per cleaner-hour, and a speed of 500 sq ft per cleaner-hour:

• 2,000 ÷ 500 = 4 cleaner-hours, so your team of two is on site for about 2 hours.
• 4 × $50 = $200 before the discount.
• $200 × (1 − 10%) = $180 per visit.
• Every two weeks is 26 visits a year, or 26 ÷ 12 ≈ 2.17 a month, so the client is worth $390 a month.
• Your effective rate is $180 ÷ 4 = $45 per cleaner-hour, which is what the discount really costs you.

Make the same home a one-time deep clean with inside oven ($35) and interior windows ($60). The 1.5× multiplier makes it 6 cleaner-hours: 6 × $50 = $300, plus $95 in add-ons, so $395. That's 3 hours on site for two cleaners.

Pricing by bedrooms and bathrooms

In bedrooms-and-baths mode, the calculator assumes 90 minutes for the kitchen and living areas, 30 minutes per bedroom and 45 minutes per bathroom, all per cleaner. A 3 bed / 2 bath home comes to 4.5 cleaner-hours. At $50 an hour with a 15% weekly discount, that's $225 × 0.85 = $191 per visit. These are starting assumptions, so replace them with your own times as soon as you have them.

Deep cleans are set to take 1.5× as long as a standard clean and move-in/out cleans 2×, the range ZenMaid gives for how much longer deep cleans run.

House cleaning rates and cleaning times in 2026

Your speed drives everything, so it's the number most worth measuring. ZenMaid puts the industry average at 400–600 sq ft per cleaner-hour. Housecall Pro's 2026 guide says a standard clean of a 2,000 sq ft home takes one cleaner about 3–4 hours, or two cleaners 1.5–2 hours. Here's what different speeds mean in cleaner-hours:

Hourly rates in the 2026 pro guides:

Tofu's invoice data (214,077 residential cleaning invoices from 3,042 businesses) puts the median residential job at $385, the median deep clean at $454 and the median move-out at $347. Those medians include larger homes and multi-cleaner jobs, so don't treat them as a price for a small apartment.

How much to charge for house cleaning

Start from what an hour of cleaning costs you, not from what the cleaner down the road charges.

• Build your hourly rate from costs. Pay, payroll taxes, supplies, insurance, driving and admin time all belong in it. Housecall Pro cites an average cleaner wage of $21.01 an hour and 15–20% in added employer costs on top of wages. Jobber puts the total labor burden at 25–40%.
• Add profit on top. Jobber recommends a 10–30% profit margin. If you need help turning costs into a price, the service price calculator does the cost-plus math.
• Measure your speed. Add up the square feet of your last ten standard cleans and divide by the total cleaner-hours. One honest number beats any average.
• Charge more for the first clean. A home that hasn't been cleaned professionally takes longer. Consider pricing the first visit as a deep clean, then moving to the recurring rate.
• Set a minimum. ZenMaid suggests a minimum job price of $100–$150, so short jobs still cover the drive.

Recurring discounts

A discount for regular visits is normal, but the size varies a lot between sources. The calculator pre-fills 15% for weekly, 10% for every two weeks and 5% for monthly. You can type over any of them.

Hourly versus flat pricing is its own debate. A flat price per visit is simpler for the client, and you can still build it from an hourly rate like this calculator does. Our flat rate vs hourly guide covers the tradeoffs.

What homeowners usually pay for house cleaning

If you're checking whether your quote is in line with the market, these are the national ranges in Housecall Pro's 2026 price guide, which draws on Angi data. Prices are per visit.

The same guide lists a standard one-time clean at $140–$220 and a move-in/move-out deep clean at $220–$400. Jobber puts the average homeowner spend at $174–$256 per visit. City matters too: in the ten-city Taskrabbit sample in Housecall Pro's guide, hourly rates per cleaner run from $39 in Denver to $58 in Boston.

Common add-on prices: inside the oven $30–$50, inside the refrigerator $31–$100 and interior cabinets $75–$230 (Housecall Pro). Tofu's defaults are $35 for the oven, $35 for the fridge and $60 for interior windows, which is what this calculator uses.

Common house cleaning pricing mistakes

• Quoting on bedrooms alone. A 3-bedroom condo and a 3-bedroom house with a finished basement are different jobs. Ask for square footage when you can.
• Forgetting the discount compounds. A 15% weekly discount on a $200 clean is $30 a visit, or about $1,560 a year from one client. Make sure your rate can carry it.
• Pricing the deep clean like a standard one. Deep and move-out cleans take far longer. Quote them separately, or set the price after a walkthrough.
• Not counting drive time. Twenty minutes each way adds 40 minutes to a two-hour job, a third more of your day. Build it into the rate or a minimum charge.
• Never raising prices. Supplies and wages go up every year. Jobber suggests raising prices 3–5% a year to protect your margin.

How to put a cleaning price on an estimate or invoice

Send the client the quote line as a message or a simple document before the first visit. If you're unsure which one you're sending, read estimates vs invoices. After the clean, invoice what you quoted, with each part as its own line item:

• Standard clean, 2,000 sq ft, every two weeks: 1 × $180
• Inside oven: 1 × $35
• Interior windows: 1 × $60

Start from our cleaning invoice template, or make a PDF in the free invoice generator without signing up. In Onigiri, line items are quantity × rate, with tax rates and discounts if you need them. The free plan covers 3 invoices a month with unlimited clients, sent by email, as a link or as a PDF. With regular clients you'll outgrow that fast. PRO ($12 a month) adds unlimited invoices, saved item and service templates for your standard cleans, and card payments through your own Stripe account.

Frequently asked questions