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.
House cleaning pricing calculator
How much to charge for house cleaning?
A first clean may require more hours for buildup and orientation; a recurring visit can use a different, documented scope.
A regular visit for a single cleaner. Count the time inside the home, setup, and the trip between jobs.
- 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
Rooms cleaned
Owner delivery time: 3.00 h
Job costs
Supplies per visit
Goal, fees, and billing
Your quote result
Based on the assumptions you entered, before tax.
Exact minimum target price$122.50
Suggested rounded quote$125
Operating profit at suggested quote$27
Based on your inputs, not a market rate or after-tax take-home pay.
Cost breakdown
- Owner labor
- $70
- Other labor
- $0
- Direct job costs
- $8
- Travel, equipment, overhead & other fixed costs
- $20
- Total fixed cost
- $98
Show calculation and assumptions
(3.00 delivery + 0.5 other hours) × $20/h + $0 other labor + $8 direct costs + $20 other fixed costs = $98. $98 ÷ (1 − 0% fees − 20% margin) = $122.50 after rounding up to the cent.
Cost coverage: $98 ÷ (1 − 0% fees) = $98.
Owner pay is included as labor cost. Quote-based percentage fees are subtracted in the denominator.
Suggested equivalent: $125.00 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
$122.50 exact · $125 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 house 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
- Rooms cleaned: estimate the quantity and the time each one takes.
- Supplies per visit: 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.
3.00 delivery hours + 0.5 other hours at $20/hour = $70 owner labor. $8 direct job costs, plus $20 other fixed costs, gives $98 fixed cost.
With a 20% target margin and 0% quote-based fees: $98 ÷ 0.80 = $122.50 exact minimum target price.
Where this estimate can change
Room count is only a planning input. It does not imply a universal time per room.
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 rooms and surfaces are included, and is this a first visit or a repeat visit?
When work changes
Revise the estimate
If buildup or added rooms require more time, revise the room count or hours per room before confirming the visit price.
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 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.
Billable hours and nonbillable time in service pricing
The hour a customer sees is often only part of the time a job occupies. Count work that enables the deliverable.
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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