House Cleaning Price Calculator (Free)
Solo house cleaners typically charge $25–$50 per hour, or a flat rate of $100–$250 for an average home once you know your own times. A 1,500 sq ft home on a standard recurring clean lands around $105–$180 at typical published rates. Deep cleans and move-in/move-out cleans run 50–100% above a standard recurring clean. Use the calculator below to get a range for a specific job.
Price a house cleaning job
Enter the clean type, the home size, and the condition. Get a defensible price range you can quote on the spot — no signup, no email.
Three ways house cleaning gets priced
Most solo cleaners price a job one of three ways: by home size (the most common, and what the calculator above uses), by the hour (a reasonable starting point while you’re still learning your own pace), or a flat rate per home once you’ve cleaned enough houses to know roughly what a given size and layout takes.
What actually moves the price
Home size is the biggest lever — a 900 sq ft condo and a 3,000 sq ft house aren’t the same job even at “typical” condition. Clean type is the second: standard recurring maintenance is a repeat visit with a known baseline, while a deep clean or move-in/move-out clean starts from zero — inside appliances, baseboards, window tracks, the details a maintenance clean skips.
Bedroom and bathroom count the calculator doesn’t model directly matters too — two homes at the same square footage with different bathroom counts take different amounts of time, since bathrooms are the slowest room per square foot.
The hourly cross-check
If a home-size price feels off for a specific job, the hourly cross-check ($25–$50/hr) is the sanity check: multiply your estimated time by your target hourly rate and see how it compares. Most solo cleaners eventually stop needing the cross-check because they’ve cleaned enough similar homes to quote from memory.
Recurring vs. one-off pricing
A client signing up for weekly or biweekly recurring service is worth pricing slightly below a one-off clean — you’re trading a small discount for predictable revenue and no re-marketing cost. The first clean for a new recurring client is usually priced at the “heavy” or deep-clean rate even if ongoing visits will be standard, since that first visit does more work to get the home to a maintainable baseline.
Frequently asked questions
How much should I charge for cleaning per square foot?
Typically $0.07 to $0.12 per square foot for a standard recurring clean. Deep cleans run $0.12–$0.20 per square foot and move-in/move-out cleans $0.14–$0.24, because both take materially longer than a maintenance visit.
Should I charge hourly or by home size?
Charge by home size or a flat rate once you know your times — hourly punishes you for getting faster. Hourly ($25–$50) is a reasonable starting point while you're still learning how long a given home actually takes.
How much more should a deep clean cost than a regular clean?
Deep cleans typically run 50–100% above a standard recurring clean rate, and move-in/move-out cleans land in the same range or slightly higher. Both take a first-visit level of attention — inside appliances, baseboards, window tracks — that a maintenance clean skips.
Why does a house cleaning quote change based on pets or clutter?
Pet hair, clutter, and a long gap since the last professional clean all add real time — picking up before you can clean, extra vacuum passes, more detail work per room. Pricing a first clean or a heavily lived-in home at the 'heavy' condition tier protects your time better than quoting the standard rate and hoping.