Most cleaning jobs are priced by guess.
CleaningCalc works out what an hour actually costs you — wages, payroll taxes, workers’ comp, supplies, driving, and the hours you can’t bill — then prices the job to a margin you set.
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2,000 sq ft standard clean · 2 cleaners · 2.7 hours on site
- Real cost of the job
- $195.60
- What’s left
- $44.40
Same job · your payroll · your state
- Cleaner wages · 5.3 crew hours
- $106.00
- Payroll tax, comp, sick leave
- $14.39
- Unbillable admin and quoting
- $40.13
- Supplies and consumables
- $10.00
- Drive time, 20 miles
- $15.20
- Card processing
- $9.87
Alaska at $20.00/hr. Competitor prices are researched, not modelled — 1,609 local quotes, Homeyou · Anchorage. Your own numbers replace all of them.
What an hour of your crew’s time actually costs
A wage is the smallest part of it. CleaningCalc builds the hour from everything that leaves your account, so the number you price against is the number you pay.
Your rate, or the prevailing cleaner wage for the state until you enter your own.
FICA and FUTA, plus your state unemployment rate on the wage base that applies.
Per hour worked where the state charges it that way, per $100 of payroll elsewhere.
Accrued hours you pay for and cannot send anyone out to work.
Anything else you carry on every payroll hour.
Quoting, scheduling, callbacks, training and driving between jobs — paid, never invoiced.
Figures shown for a $20.00/hr crew in Colorado, at 75% billable utilisation. Your own numbers replace all of them.
Cost first, price second
Every price starts from your own payroll and works up to the margin you set. It grosses up for the card fee so processing doesn’t quietly eat three points, and it never rounds a price down.
Your state, not a national average
Minimum wage, unemployment, workers’ comp, paid sick leave and overtime differ by state and change what an hour costs. All 51 jurisdictions are modelled, including the four with daily overtime.
Quotes your customers see
Residential, short-term rental and commercial calculators feed one proposal carrying your logo, colours and wording. Your costs and margins never appear on it.
It tells you what it doesn’t know.
Some employment figures are published and some are not. Where a state publishes a rate, CleaningCalc cites it with the source and the date it was checked. Where nothing is published — workers’ comp in half the country — it says so and asks for your broker’s number instead of inventing one.
A tool that presents a guess with the same confidence as a citation will eventually cost you a contract. Every unconfirmed figure stays flagged on the page it affects until you replace it.
The rest set it from your industry — yours to enter.
Nowhere else publishes a rate we can look up. Those states ask for your broker’s figure instead of inventing one.
Daily overtime modelled for AK, CA, CO, NV — including California double time past twelve hours and Alaska’s under-four-employees exemption.
Price the next job properly.
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