House Cleaning Cost Calculator
Price a house cleaning by the square foot. Enter the home size, pick the clean and how often you come — get the per-visit price, a fair range, and your real profit after supplies.
You priced the job. Now run it like a business.
That's the hard part done. SideWRK runs the rest from your phone: text the estimate, your customer taps approve, and the money hits — card or Apple Pay from their own phone, landing in your own Stripe account that day. It keeps a line on who still owes you, logs every material and cost so your real profit and your tax write-offs tally themselves, and stands up a free website with reviews that feeds you the next job. A free estimate today, or your whole operation in one app. Built for house cleaning and every trade.
Price the house, protect the visit
Cleaning money is made on repeat visits, not hero one-timers. Build every quote from the square footage so the price scales with the house, charge deep cleans and move-outs like the separate jobs they are, and give your discount to frequency — the weekly customer who keeps your Tuesday full is worth more than a one-time deep clean across town. Then hold a per-visit minimum so the little apartment still pays for the trip.
Questions
- How much should I charge to clean a house?
- Regular cleaning runs about $0.10–$0.17 per square foot, so a 2,000 sq ft home lands around $200–$340 per visit. Deep cleans run roughly $0.15–$0.25 per square foot and move-out cleans $0.22–$0.33. Hold a per-visit minimum (often $100–$130) so a small apartment still covers your drive, supplies, and setup.
- Should I price cleaning per square foot, per hour, or per room?
- Build the price per square foot, then quote the customer one flat per-visit number. Square footage scales with the actual work, it is easy to get over the phone, and it stops a 3,000 sq ft house from sneaking in at a 1,500 sq ft price. Hourly pricing punishes you for being fast.
- How much more is a deep clean or a move-out clean?
- A deep clean is about 1.5× a standard visit — baseboards, inside the oven and fridge, and the buildup a maintenance clean skips. Move-out cleans run 1.8–2×: the home is empty, so everything gets done, including inside every cabinet and closet. Quote them up front as their own service, not a standard clean that ran long.
- Should weekly or biweekly customers pay less per visit?
- Yes — a house you clean every week never gets truly dirty, so the visit is faster. Most cleaners take roughly 10–15% off for biweekly and 20–25% off for weekly against a one-time price. The discount buys you the thing that actually makes cleaning money: a steady route.
- Is this calculator free?
- Yes. It runs entirely in your browser, there is no sign-up, and nothing is stored anywhere but your own device.
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