HOUSE CLEANING PRICING GUIDE
How much to charge for house cleaning
The 2026 US rates for standard, deep and move-out cleans — per square foot and by bedrooms — plus add-ons, recurring discounts and a free calculator that turns them into a price you can put on your website.
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The short answer
Most house cleaning businesses charge $120 to $280 per visit for a standard clean, or $30 to $75 per cleaner per hour (Housecall Pro, September 2026).
By the square foot, that's $0.06 to $0.14 for a standard clean, $0.12 to $0.25 for a deep clean and $0.15 to $0.35 for a move-out clean — about $120 to $280, $240 to $500 and $300 to $700 for a 2,000 sq ft home.
Recurring customers usually get 10% to 15% off for weekly or every-two-weeks service, and extras like inside the oven ($20 to $40) are priced on top.
Charge per visit, not per hour, once you know how long a home takes: customers want a number up front, and you keep the gain when you get faster.
FREE PRICE CALCULATOR
What should I charge for this clean?
Pick the type of clean, enter the home's size or pick its bedrooms, and tick the extras. The range uses the published 2026 US rates in the table below.
Suggested price
$120–$280
standard clean — by square foot, 2,000 sq ft
A starting range from published US rates, not a quote for a customer. Time your first few cleans, check the range against your own costs (the formula below), then set your prices.
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RATES · SEPTEMBER 2026
House cleaning prices (2026)
Typical US rates per square foot and by bedrooms, with what a 2,000 sq ft home comes to. On TaskRabbit, where homeowners book independent helpers, cleaning averages $33 an hour (September 2026) — against the $30–$75 per cleaner per hour Housecall Pro reports for cleaning businesses.
| The job | Typical US price · source |
|---|---|
| Standard clean — by square foot | $0.06–$0.14 per sq ft · about $120–$280 for 2,000 sq ft · Housecall Pro |
| Deep clean — by square foot | $0.12–$0.25 per sq ft · about $240–$500 for 2,000 sq ft · Housecall Pro |
| Move-out clean — by square foot | $0.15–$0.35 per sq ft · about $300–$700 for 2,000 sq ft · Housecall Pro |
| Standard clean — by bedrooms | Studio: $60–$90 · 1 bedroom: $75–$110 · 2 bedrooms: $100–$150 · 3 bedrooms: $130–$200 · 4 bedrooms: $150–$210 · Housecall Pro |
| Deep clean — by bedrooms | Studio: $75–$130 · 1 bedroom: $90–$150 · 2 bedrooms: $120–$200 · 3 bedrooms: $150–$300 · 4 bedrooms: $200–$420 · Housecall Pro |
| Hourly, per cleaner | $30–$75 an hour · Housecall Pro |
Rates read off each publisher's page in September 2026. The calculator above uses exactly these numbers. Full source list below.
ADD-ONS AND ADJUSTMENTS
What to charge for add-ons
The extras customers ask for most — price them per job, on top of the clean.
| What | Typical US price · source |
|---|---|
| How often: weekly or every two weeks | 10%–15% off · Housecall Pro |
| Inside the oven | +$20–$40 · Housecall Pro |
| Inside the fridge | +$10–$40 · Housecall Pro |
| Inside the cabinets | +$20–$50 · Housecall Pro |
| Baseboards | +$25–$75 · Housecall Pro |
| Laundry (one load) | +$15–$30 · Housecall Pro |
| Inside windows (10 windows) | $4–$10 per window × 10 = +$40–$100 · Housecall Pro rate |
Where a row shows a sum (a rate × a quantity, or a percentage worked out from published dollar ranges), the arithmetic is ours and the inputs are the publisher's.
THE PRICING FORMULA
How to price a house cleaning job
Six steps from your costs to the number on your price list.
Know your cost per hour
Wages (yours or your cleaners'), plus supplies, travel and insurance. If you employ people in the US, Housecall Pro suggests adding 15%–20% on top of wages for payroll taxes — confirm the rate with your accountant.
Time the home
Estimate the hours from the size, the bedrooms and bathrooms, pets and clutter. Time your first cleans so the estimate gets real.
Multiply out the cost
Estimated hours × your cost per hour, plus supplies. That's the job's break-even.
Add your margin
Jobber's flat-rate formula: (hours × wages + expenses) × (1 + profit margin). Housecall Pro calls 20%–35% a healthy margin.
Check it against the market
Compare with the table: $0.06–$0.14 per sq ft for a standard clean, $0.12–$0.25 deep, $0.15–$0.35 move-out.
Set recurring and add-on prices
10%–15% off for weekly or every-two-weeks, and every extra (oven, fridge, laundry) as its own line.
The formula, worked through
Say it's a standard clean of a 2,000 sq ft, three-bedroom home. The market range is $120–$280 by the square foot, or $130–$200 by bedrooms.
Now check your own numbers. Jobber's example: $30 an hour in wages plus $10 an hour in expenses is $40 an hour; four hours is $160 to break even. With a 25% margin, $160 × 1.25 = $200.
$200 sits inside both ranges, so “standard clean from $200 for a three-bedroom home” is a fair line for your price list. A weekly customer at 10% off would pay $180.
The formula and the $160 example are Jobber's; your hours and wages are what make it yours.
What to charge in your area
The ranges on this page are US national figures. Prices follow local costs: the Bureau of Economic Analysis puts overall prices in California at 110.7 against a US average of 100, and Arkansas at 86.9 (2024 regional price parities, released February 2026).
Housecall Pro's city prices for a standard clean show the spread: $220–$320 in San Francisco and $150–$300 in New York, against $130–$220 in Dallas and $120–$210 in Atlanta (September 2026). TaskRabbit's hourly averages run from $55 in Boston and Washington DC to $41 in Denver.
Outside the US, treat the ranges as a shape, not a price: the relationships hold (a deep clean costs roughly twice a standard clean), but check what local cleaners list on their own websites.
Put your prices on your website
A price list — even “from” prices — answers a customer's first question before they pick up the phone, and it's the line an AI assistant can quote when someone asks what house cleaning costs near them.
If you build your site with Zarla, tell the editor “add a pricing section: standard clean from $200, deep clean from $300” and your prices go on the site, in a section you can edit any time. Want to see a finished site first? Browse house cleaning website templates or see how Zarla builds house cleaning websites.
Still setting up? Write your house cleaning business plan, and when the prices are set, read how cleaning companies get found on Google.
House cleaning pricing: common questions
About $120–$280 for a standard clean at $0.06–$0.14 per square foot, $240–$500 for a deep clean and $300–$700 for a move-out clean (Housecall Pro, September 2026). The calculator above works it out for any size.
At the $30–$75 per cleaner per hour most businesses charge, three hours comes to $90–$225 for one cleaner. Two cleaners for three hours is twice that.
As a wage, it's close to average — Housecall Pro puts the average house cleaner's pay at $21.01 an hour. As a price you charge customers, it's low: once supplies, travel, insurance and taxes are in, businesses charge $30–$75 per cleaner per hour.
A flat rate per visit once you know the home: customers want a number up front, and you keep the gain as you get faster. Charge hourly for a first deep clean or a home you haven't seen, then switch to a flat rate.
$240–$500 flat, or $0.12–$0.25 per square foot (Housecall Pro) — roughly double a standard clean, because baseboards, inside appliances and built-up grime take longer.
$250–$600, or $0.15–$0.35 per square foot (Housecall Pro). Empty homes are easier to move through, but inside cabinets and appliances add time.
Most businesses give 10%–15% off for weekly or every-two-weeks service (Housecall Pro). The discount is paid for by the steady schedule and faster maintenance cleans.
Yes — at least “from” prices for a standard and a deep clean. It answers the first question before the call and gives an AI assistant a real number to quote. On a Zarla site, tell the editor “add a pricing section” with your prices, and change them any time.
Where these numbers come from
Every range on this page is read off a published source, dated below. They're US figures for residential work — typical, not a rule; your costs and your market come first.
- Housecall Pro — How Much to Charge for House Cleaning: 2026 Prices — dated September 2026, read September 2026
- Jobber — How Much to Charge for House Cleaning: Rates and Pricing Tips — dated March 2026, read September 2026
- TaskRabbit — House Cleaning Cost Guide — dated September 2026, read September 2026
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis — regional price parities by state, 2024 — dated February 2026, read September 2026
Put your house cleaning prices on your website
Add your town and your business name, and Zarla builds the site from that one line. Your prices go in a pricing section you edit by chat.
Already have a website? Bring it across →Zarla keeps your old page addresses where it can and redirects the ones that change, helping you keep the Google standing you've built.