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What should you charge for a cleaning job?

Most pricing calculators forget the drive. This one doesn’t — and it shows you what happens when the job runs long, which is the part that actually eats your margin.

The job

Pre-filled with typical cleaning numbers. Change what’s different for you.

Type of clean
Cleaners on the job
Hours on sitePer cleaner, for a standard clean
Drive time, round tripMinutes. The cost everyone forgets.
min

Your costs

Rough is fine. You can sharpen it later.

Pay per cleaner, per hour
$
Supplies for this job
$
Margin you wantWhat’s left after everything
%
OverheadsVan, fuel, insurance, phone, office rent, admin — everything you pay whether or not you work  
Everything you pay monthlyNot wages or supplies
$
Jobs you do in a monthEvery job carries a share of it
Winning the workMoney spent to win a booking — ads, leaflets, listing fees, referral rewards  
Spent a month getting bookings
$
New customers a monthNot jobs — first-time customers
Visits before a customer leavesA one-off is 1. A fortnightly regular for a year is 26.

Cleaning job — price breakdown

What it costs
The job

The number that changes everything

Cleaning isn’t a quoting business. It’s a booking business.

Plumbers and painters win one job at a time. You win a customer once and then it’s the same slot, every week or every fortnight. That’s why the maths above turns on one number — how many visits they stay for.

Win a customer for $50 and see them once, and it costs you $50. See them twenty times and it costs you $2.50. Same customer. The difference is whether the next visit is already in the diary.

  • They book themselves, online, without phoning you
  • The next visit is booked before you leave the last one — recurring, automatically
  • Reminders go out on their own, so fewer no-shows and cancellations
  • Card on file, so a repeat visit never needs a payment conversation
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