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How much to charge for window cleaning?

Define whether both sides, screens, tracks, and upper floors are included before estimating time.

Fifteen windows cleaned inside and out, counted as 30 faces, plus three access adjustments.

  • 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

Window faces cleaned
Difficult-access windows

Owner delivery time: 4.50 h

Job costs

Cleaning solution and cloths

Goal, fees, and billing

Your quote result

Based on the assumptions you entered, before tax.

Exact minimum target price$243
Suggested rounded quote$245
Operating profit at suggested quote$62.75

Based on your inputs, not a market rate or after-tax take-home pay.

Cost breakdown

Owner labor
$131.25
Other labor
$0
Direct job costs
$15
Travel, equipment, overhead & other fixed costs
$36
Total fixed cost
$182.25
Show calculation and assumptions

(4.50 delivery + 0.75 other hours) × $25/h + $0 other labor + $15 direct costs + $36 other fixed costs = $182.25. $182.25 ÷ (1 − 0% fees − 25% margin) = $243 after rounding up to the cent.

Cost coverage: $182.25 ÷ (1 − 0% fees) = $182.25.

Owner pay is included as labor cost. Quote-based percentage fees are subtracted in the denominator.

Suggested equivalent: $16.3333 per window across 15 windows. Total quote comes first.

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

$243 exact · $245 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 window cleaning quote

Start with the actual deliverable and billing unit: 15 windows 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

  • Window faces cleaned: estimate the quantity and the time each one takes.
  • Difficult-access windows: estimate the quantity and the time each one takes.
  • Cleaning solution and cloths: 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.

4.50 delivery hours + 0.75 other hours at $25/hour = $131.25 owner labor. $15 direct job costs, plus $36 other fixed costs, gives $182.25 fixed cost.

With a 25% target margin and 0% quote-based fees: $182.25 ÷ 0.75 = $243 exact minimum target price.

Where this estimate can change

The billable unit is a complete window; “faces cleaned” is a separate workload input.

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

How many complete windows, which sides, and are screens, tracks, and difficult access included?

When work changes

Revise the estimate

An added interior face or high-access window changes the face and access tasks; keep the billable window count distinct.

Billing unit

Price the full task first

The example covers 15 windows. 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.

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