Service pricing calculator: build a quote from your costs
Enter your own time, job costs, quote-based fees, and target margin. The result is a cost-based quote for the scope you entered.
Deep cleaning pricing calculator
How much to charge for deep cleaning?
Walk through the rooms and list the extra processes before estimating hours; a deep clean should not inherit a routine-clean schedule.
A one-time intensive clean with three standard rooms plus two heavier-soil rooms, including scoped appliance and detailed-surface work.
- Editable example assumptions
- Cost-based, not a market rate
- Before tax
Your assumptions
Editable example inputs. Replace them with your own numbers.
Work and time
Standard rooms
Heavy-soil rooms
Owner delivery time: 6.30 h
Job costs
Cleaning chemicals
Disposable supplies
Goal, fees, and billing
Your quote result
Based on the assumptions you entered, before tax.
Exact minimum target price$334
Suggested rounded quote$335
Operating profit at suggested quote$84.50
Based on your inputs, not a market rate or after-tax take-home pay.
Cost breakdown
- Owner labor
- $182.50
- Other labor
- $0
- Direct job costs
- $26
- Travel, equipment, overhead & other fixed costs
- $42
- Total fixed cost
- $250.50
Show calculation and assumptions
(6.30 delivery + 1 other hours) × $25/h + $0 other labor + $26 direct costs + $42 other fixed costs = $250.50. $250.50 ÷ (1 − 0% fees − 25% margin) = $334 after rounding up to the cent.
Cost coverage: $250.50 ÷ (1 − 0% fees) = $250.51.
Owner pay is included as labor cost. Quote-based percentage fees are subtracted in the denominator.
Suggested equivalent: $335.00 per visit across 1 visit. Total quote comes first.
Review your assumptions
Compare your own scenarios
Enter and confirm your low and high total owner hours and material costs. These are planning assumptions, not market ranges.
Low scope
Add both values to compare.
Expected: current inputs
$334 exact · $335 suggested
High scope
Add both values to compare.
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Enter a positive quote to see its profit and margin.
How to scope this deep cleaning quote
Start with the actual deliverable and billing unit: 1 visit in the editable example. If the customer’s scope differs, change task quantities, hours per item, and billable unit count before relying on the result.
Costs to check
- Standard rooms: estimate the quantity and the time each one takes.
- Heavy-soil rooms: estimate the quantity and the time each one takes.
- Cleaning chemicals: enter the amount you expect to pay for this job.
- Disposable supplies: enter the amount you expect to pay for this job.
- Include your owner pay, travel, equipment use, overhead, and any helper or subcontractor costs that actually apply.
Worked example
Illustrative inputs, not observed local prices.
6.30 delivery hours + 1 other hours at $25/hour = $182.50 owner labor. $26 direct job costs, plus $42 other fixed costs, gives $250.50 fixed cost.
With a 25% target margin and 0% quote-based fees: $250.50 ÷ 0.75 = $334 exact minimum target price.
Where this estimate can change
Condition and access vary greatly. Confirm exclusions such as restoration or hazardous material work.
The result covers only entered costs and the owner pay target. It is a before-tax operating estimate; it does not establish a local market rate or legal requirements.
Before quoting
Confirm the scope
Which appliances, detailed surfaces, and heavy-soil rooms are in scope?
When work changes
Revise the estimate
A special room or unusually difficult condition needs its own time and supplies; add it to the task list rather than applying an unexplained multiplier.
Billing unit
Price the full task first
The example covers 1 visit. Divide the full quote by this count only when it matches what the customer will actually buy.
Source and method
This page uses the QuoteForProfit cost-based formula and explicitly labeled, editable example assumptions. It does not use an external market price table. Method updated 2026-11-06.
Related guides
How to quote a job when hours are uncertain
Use separate, explicit scope scenarios when the time required is uncertain. Treat them as your planning assumptions.
How to price recurring cleaning jobs
A recurring price works when the visit frequency and included work are explicit, and when a first clean is priced on its own actual scope.
Margin vs markup for service pricing
Margin measures profit as a share of the selling price. Markup measures profit as a share of cost.
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