House cleaning price calculator

Work out what to charge for a house clean from your own numbers: how long each room takes you, your hourly rate, a supplies charge, travel and a discount for regular clients. Nothing is saved or sent anywhere.

The boxes start with a worked example. These are not suggested or typical prices; type in your own rates and times.

The house

Bedrooms Minutes per bedroom Bathrooms Minutes per bathroom Kitchen and other rooms Minutes per other room Extra task minutes Cleaners on the job

Your rates

Your hourly rate per cleaner ($) Supplies charge per clean ($) Travel charge ($) Recurring discount %

Minutes are cleaner-minutes: the time one person would take. Two cleaners halve the time on site, not the labor. Set the discount to 0 for a one-off clean. The discount is taken off labor and supplies; travel is added after it.

How it works

Cleaning time = (bedrooms × minutes + bathrooms × minutes + other rooms × minutes + extra minutes) ÷ 60. Labor = cleaning time × your hourly rate. Price per clean = (labor + supplies) × (1 − discount) + travel. Time on site = cleaning time ÷ cleaners.

Worked example (the values above): 3 × 25 + 2 × 40 + 2 × 20 + 30 = 225 minutes, so the clean takes 3 h 45 min of cleaner time, or 1 h 53 min on site with 2 cleaners. At $50 an hour that is $187.50 of labor; with the $8.00 supplies charge the price before discount is $195.50. A 10% recurring discount takes off $19.55, and the $5.00 travel charge brings the price per clean to $180.95. That works out at $48.25 per cleaner-hour.

Prefer to quote by the hour or by a flat price? Compare both with the hourly vs flat rate calculator. See also all calculators.