Commercial cleaning bid calculator
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How many hours is that job really?

Enter the building. Get cleaning hours per visit, a defensible price range, and a cross-check against what facilities in that category actually pay. Every number shows its work.

01 — The buildingInputs
Floor area you actually service — exclude mechanical rooms, unleased space and areas the contract excludes.
Count toilets, urinals and sinks separately. Fixtures drive restroom time far more than square footage does.
Heavy = high traffic, food debris, industrial soil, or a building that's been neglected before you.
02 — The estimateLive
Cleaning labor per visit
Price / visit
Price / month
Effective $/sq ft
Labor hrs / month
Cross-check — $/sq ft vs facility benchmark
Adjust the inputs to see where your rate lands.
Show the math

This is the market range. It is not your floor.

The number above tells you what buildings like this tend to pay. It cannot tell you whether you make money at that price — because it doesn't know your wage, your payroll burden, your insurance, your vehicle, or how many billable hours you're spreading overhead across.

Two companies can bid the identical building. One clears 22%. The other works twelve months for free and doesn't find out until the year is over.

  • Your loaded labor cost — wage plus payroll tax, workers' comp, PTO and turnover
  • Overhead allocated across your real billable hours, not a guess
  • The Floor — the price below which this contract loses money. In red. Impossible to miss.
  • Contract Profit Tracker — log actual hours as the job runs and see which live contracts are under water
  • Renewal repricing — the number the contract needs to be at when it comes up again
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Every other tool prices the bid. This one tells you what the contract actually did.

How this calculator works — and what it can't do

Production rates. Time is estimated from published industry ranges for general commercial cleaning — roughly 3,000–4,000 sq ft per hour for basic open office work, dropping sharply for detail-heavy and regulated space. Rates are adjusted for facility type, soil load and service frequency, then restroom fixture time and travel are added on top.

Pricing. The range applies blended market billing rates of roughly $35–65 per labor hour, which sit inside the commonly cited $30–75 band. The cross-check compares your resulting rate per square foot against typical ranges for that facility category, because a number that looks fine hourly can still be indefensible per square foot.

What it can't do. It doesn't know your local labor market, your equipment, your crew's actual speed, or the specific scope in the RFP. It is a starting point for a walkthrough, not a substitute for one. Treat every output as a hypothesis to verify on site.

Independence. These figures are built from publicly published rate ranges and our own model. This calculator is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or derived from any industry association's proprietary time standards.

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