Commercial Cleaning Bid Calculator

Price a building from your real labor cost.

Square feet, restroom fixtures and your metro area go in. Local wages, payroll taxes and three monthly prices with profit checks come out.

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The building

What you measured at the walkthrough.

Facility type

Cleanable square feet

sq ft

Only the floor area you will actually clean.

Restroom fixtures

Every toilet, urinal, sink and shower. Timed per fixture.

Your metro area

Janitor wages for 585 U.S. areas (Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2025). Pick the closest metro, or your state.

Wage level to price from

Entry10th pct Below median25th pct Median50th pct Above median75th pct Top90th pct

Three service options

Clients choose which option, not whether to hire you. Set visits per week and any extra monthly detail hours (floor care, carpet extraction, high dusting).

Your own numbers (optional)

Every field shows the suggestion the calculator will use. Type over any of them with your own figure; leave blank to keep the suggestion.

Time

Production rate (sq ft per labor hour)

Minutes per restroom fixture

Fixed minutes per visit

Set-up, trash run, lock-up.

Labor cost

Hourly wage you pay ($)

Workers' comp (% of payroll)

Use your insurer's rate for class code 9014.

State unemployment tax (%)

Employer FICA (%)

Federal unemployment (%)

Other labor costs (%)

Paid time off, benefits, payroll fees.

Pricing

Supplies (% of labor)

Overhead (% of price)

Profit target (% of price)

Profit floor (%)

Warns below this.

Minimum billing rate ($/labor hour)

Minimum price per visit ($)

First-visit multiplier

1.3 well kept, 1.5 typical, 2.0 neglected.

Band low ($ per sq ft per month)

Band high ($ per sq ft per month)

Your three prices

Fill in the building and press Calculate.

You get labor hours, your true labor cost per hour, and Essential, Standard and Premium monthly prices, each run through five checks.

Profit at or above your floor
Billing rate at or above your minimum
Price per visit at or above your minimum
Monthly price per sq ft inside the usual band
Wage at or above the state minimum

How the numbers are built

Hours per visit = square feet ÷ production rate, plus minutes per restroom fixture, plus fixed minutes.
Loaded labor cost = wage × (1 + FICA + FUTA + state unemployment + workers' comp + other).
Direct cost = hours per month × loaded cost, plus supplies.
Price = direct cost ÷ (1 − overhead % − profit %), rounded up to the next $5.

Identical to the Local-Cost Bid Engine workbook in the kit, so your web numbers and your workbook numbers always match.

Honest notes

This is an estimator and decision aid, not a guaranteed market price and not legal, tax or insurance advice. Your bid is your decision.
Production rates are editable starting ranges from public sources. For dental, gym, church, daycare, bank branch and apartment common areas the public data is thin; the calculator says so when you pick them. Time your own crew and type your rate in section 3.
Wage, minimum-wage and unemployment-tax data are U.S. only. Enter your own wage and costs anywhere else.
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