Pricing guides for cleaning company owners
No rate surveys, no benchmarks from someone else’s city. Four worked examples using the same arithmetic RateRescue runs on your own client list, so you can check every number by hand.
- 01
How to work out your cost per crew hour
The one number every price should be measured against: what an hour of crew time costs you before any profit.
- 02
What should a cleaning business charge per hour
Compare per-cleaner, team and visit prices, then find each client's earned rate against your own cost floor.
- 03
How to price recurring cleaning clients
Price each frequency from crew hours, compare biweekly and monthly bills, and find existing clients below your floor.
- 04
How to raise prices with existing clients
The notice, the timing, the two objections you will hear, and what to do when someone says no.
- 05
Cleaning price increase letter: three templates
The standard notice, the long-overdue increase, and the reply when a client asks for the old price back.
- 06
How to find the underpriced clients in your book
The audit by hand: the five columns you need, the earned-rate formula, and how to rank a whole client list against your floor.
- 07
What a cleaning employee actually costs per hour
Burden multiplies the wage, unbillable hours shrink what you can sell it across. Both, from your own figures.
- 08
How to set a minimum cleaning visit charge
Price short visits from paid crew hours, travel and your own floor, then compare with a minimum charge.
- 09
How much should I raise my cleaning prices
The amount is a price, not a percentage: floor times crew hours per visit, the split when it is too big to send, and what a refusal costs.
- 10
What to do when a cleaning client is not profitable
Keep, reprice or release: the arithmetic for the client at the bottom of the audit, and what a refusal really costs.
- Free tool
Underpriced client check
Three numbers you already know, and the rate one recurring client really earns you per crew hour. Takes about twenty seconds.
- Free tool
Cleaning business hourly rate calculator
Your cost floor per crew hour, and what one client actually earns you against it. Nothing to sign up for.
The guides show the arithmetic for one client at a time. RateRescue runs it across every recurring client you have, from the list you already keep, and names the ones below your floor with a dollar figure a month attached. The Leak Report is free.