House Cleaning Price Calculator

Add up what the visit costs you. Labor is the number of cleaners times each cleaner's hourly pay times the hours on site plus the drive. Add the supplies for the visit, then overhead, either per hour of the visit or as a percent of those costs. Divide that cost by 1 minus your target margin. The result is the price per visit.

The calculator gives a flat price per visit and the hourly rate that price works out to, so you can compare the two. A flat rate only holds if the visit takes the hours you entered. When a clean runs long, the effective hourly rate drops and so does your profit.

Choose square feet, then enter the home's size and your own minutes on site per 1,000 sq ft with the crew you send. The calculator turns that into hours on site. Time a few of your own cleans to get the minutes. This page does not suggest a cleaning speed.

Target margin is profit divided by the price you charge. Markup is profit divided by your cost. The price per visit is your cost per visit divided by 1 minus the margin. The markup percent is that price divided by the cost, minus 1. The box under the result uses the margin you typed.

The preset is the BLS median hourly pay for janitors and building cleaners, May 2025, from the Occupational Outlook Handbook, fetched on 22 October 2026. BLS does not publish it for house cleaners alone. It is a median wage, not a price, and the pay field is blank until you choose it or type your own.

The calculator uses the hourly pay you enter. Employer payroll taxes, workers' comp and benefits are not added on top, so put them in overhead, or work out a fully burdened wage with the labor rate calculator and enter that as the pay.