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
Why the quoted hourly rate is the wrong number, and how to read the rate a client actually earns you.
- 03
How to price recurring cleaning clients
Recurring work drifts out of date quietly. How to price it, and how to find the ones already 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
What is the minimum you should charge for a job
Minimums by crew size and job length, and why a minimum visit charge protects the whole schedule.
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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.