New York
Cleaning in New York, by someone who has been in your apartment before.
New York is the most competitive cleaning market in North America and the one where continuity is hardest to buy. Agencies here are good at sending someone tomorrow. Almost none of them will tell you who is coming next month, and at the turnover this industry runs, that reticence is honest rather than evasive.
What you are actually choosing between
An agency that fills a slot, or a team assigned to your home. The agency model is built to survive people leaving: any cleaner can take any job, so no single departure breaks anything — except the thing you were buying, which was somebody who knows that the second bedroom is an office and the hall closet does not open. Sable is built the other way round. Continuity is the product, and everything else is arranged to protect it.
Why we can say who is coming, and an agency cannot
New York cleaning wages are the highest of our four markets and turnover is still brutal — past 100% a year across the industry, near 200% at the median. Replacing one cleaner costs about $2,000, which the agency absorbs quietly and you pay for in unfamiliar faces. We pay above the metro role rate deliberately: it is cheaper than replacing people, and it is the only way the promise on this page survives contact with month twelve.
- $40–80 per cleaner-hour is what New York households pay
- $40–$80
- $22–27 per hour is what a cleaner in this metro earns
- $22–$27
Market figures, August 2026, not Sable's rates. NYC runs 20–40% above US national averages, which is why we do not quote a national number here.
Opening first in
Sable takes on only what its teams can hold, so the metro opens in parts. These are the neighbourhoods we are staffing for first — and if you are outside them we will say so rather than booking you in and sending whoever is free.
- Upper East Side
- Upper West Side
- Tribeca and Battery Park City
- Greenwich Village and the West Village
- Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill
- Park Slope
- Riverdale
- Forest Hills
Questions people actually ask.
Do you work in apartment buildings with a service entrance and COI requirements?
Yes, and both are normal here rather than an exception. Tell us the building when you request a place and we handle the certificate of insurance with management before the first visit, instead of discovering it at the door.
Is it the same cleaner every time?
At least one of them, every visit. We do not claim the identical pair forever — at New York's turnover no company can, and the ones that say otherwise are making a promise they will break. What we schedule for is that nobody arrives who has to learn your apartment from scratch.
What does apartment cleaning cost in New York?
Households here pay roughly $40–80 per cleaner-hour, and maid service runs $100–300 a visit, with recurring plans discounted 10–20%. NYC sits 20–40% above the national average. Sable's own figure comes from three answers on the price page — illustrative, since we have not begun trading.
Cost guides
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- What does gym and fitness centre cleaning cost?
- What does office cleaning cost?
- What does post-construction cleaning cost?
See what your apartment costs
Three answers, no walkthrough, and the number does not move afterwards.
None of this is in place yet — Sable has not begun trading, and these are the commitments it is being built on rather than a record of what it has done. That distinction matters more than the promises do.