Domestic cleaning price calculator
What to charge for one clean, and how many jobs and regular customers it takes to earn what you want. Start from the example numbers, then put in your own.
Price for one clean
£54
- Your time £49.50
- Materials £4
- Rounded up £0.50
Minutes spent doing one job
Getting there, parking, loading up
What an hour of your time must earn
For one job: products, resin, a share of fuel
To take home £2,000 a month
- Jobs a month
- 41
- 9.5 a week
- Paid hours
- 113
- 26 a week
- Customers
- 19
- on the round
£2,000 to take home + £212 running costs = £2,212 of takings a month.
About 26 hours a week of paid work, which leaves room for admin and for growing the round.
Each month, before tax
Per month: insurance, van, kit, phone
From one regular customer
The starting numbers are an example to show the method, not a market price. Time a few real jobs, work out what an hour of your time has to earn (the pricing guide shows how) and check the result against what customers near you will pay.
How the price is worked out
Your time at your hourly rate, plus what the job costs you, rounded up to a whole pound. Nothing is added for luck.
The domestic cleaning year
Busiest in spring cleaning season, before Christmas and around tenancy changes. Quietest in summer holidays and January. Price for the whole year, not the best month, and check that the quiet months still cover your running costs.
What moves the price in domestic cleaning
- Size of the home and number of bedrooms and bathrooms
- How many hours you'll spend, which is how most customers think about it
- Whether you bring your own products and equipment
- How often: a weekly clean needs less work than a monthly one
- Extras: ovens, inside windows, ironing and fridge cleaning
Then set a minimum visit length, such as two hours, so travel to a short job still pays.
Questions people ask
- How much should a domestic cleaner charge per clean?
- There's no single right figure. It depends on what an hour of your time has to earn, how long a job takes you and what it costs to do. In domestic cleaning, the things that move the price most are: size of the home and number of bedrooms and bathrooms; how many hours you'll spend, which is how most customers think about it; whether you bring your own products and equipment. Put your own numbers in the calculator, then check the result against what customers near you will pay.
- How long does one clean take?
- The calculator starts from 150 minutes on site plus 15 minutes getting there and setting up, 165 in all. That's an example to show the method. Time a few real jobs, including the driving, and use your own average.
- Should a domestic cleaner set a minimum charge?
- Yes. Set a minimum visit length, such as two hours, so travel to a short job still pays. If a customer won't pay it, they cost you more in time than they pay you, and the round is better without them.
- How many regular customers does a domestic cleaner need?
- Customers come back every week or fortnight for a regular clean, and one-off for oven and deep cleans, about 26 visits a year, so each regular customer is worth that many jobs. The calculator turns the income you want into jobs a month and then into the number of customers it takes. Change the visits a year to match how often yours really come back.
- Do domestic cleaning prices change through the year?
- The work is busiest in spring cleaning season, before Christmas and around tenancy changes and quietest in summer holidays and January. Regular customers go on holiday and pause the service, and a clean you can't book is income you can't recover. Many traders keep the price steady and smooth the income instead, for example by agreeing a fixed monthly amount with regular customers.
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