What cleaning actually costs.
Published cleaning rates disagree with each other by two and three times, mostly because sources mix per-visit with per-month and per-cleaner with per-crew without saying which. These guides give the figure first, say where it came from, and show the working.
What does house cleaning cost?
Size decides it, not the national average: a three-bed, two-bath runs about $140–220 a visit, while a four-bed with three or more bathrooms in a high-cost metro commonly runs $350–500 recurring, and a first visit is 1.5 to 2 times whichever of those applies to you.
What does retail and shop cleaning cost?
Retail cleaning runs roughly $0.08-0.18 per square foot per month nationally and $0.12-0.20 in New Jersey, or about $40-65 per cleaner-hour — but footfall moves the figure more than floor area does, which is why a small busy store can cost more to hold than a large quiet one.
What does warehouse cleaning cost?
Warehouse and industrial janitorial runs roughly $0.03–0.12 per square foot per month in Northern New Jersey at weekly service, and floor care — the auto-scrubbing pass itself — is quoted separately at $0.02–0.07 per square foot per session. They are two different products, and quoting one blended rate for both is how these bids get won or lost by accident.
What does medical and dental office cleaning cost?
Medical and dental practice cleaning runs roughly $0.15–0.32 per square foot per month for routine service, rising above $0.30 once treatment rooms and sterilisation areas are in scope, or $50–60 per cleaner-hour when billed hourly. It prices above general office work because the pace is genuinely slower — ISSA rates clinical areas at 1,800–2,500 square feet per cleaner-hour.
What does restaurant cleaning cost?
Restaurant cleaning runs roughly $0.12–0.40 per square foot, which works out at $200–500 for a routine visit and $300–1,200 for deep commercial kitchen work, or $50–150 per hour. It is the widest range of any commercial category: degreasing, hood and equipment work sit at the top, a nightly front-of-house wipe at the bottom.
What does gym and fitness centre cleaning cost?
Gym cleaning runs roughly $0.05–0.20 per square foot per service, or $0.27–0.36 per square foot per month on twice-weekly recurring service in the New Jersey and Connecticut market — and locker rooms, showers and saunas add 25–40% over the same floor area without them.
What does office cleaning cost?
Office cleaning runs roughly $0.10–0.18 per square foot per month on weekly service in New Jersey, $0.07–0.25 nationally, or $30–75 per cleaner-hour when billed by time. It is the cheapest commercial category per square foot, and the reason is who buys it: cleaning is specified by the building rather than the occupier, and tendered at portfolio scale on price.
What does post-construction cleaning cost?
Post-construction cleaning runs roughly $0.15–0.60 per square foot for interior work, with commercial final cleans typically $0.30–0.75 per square foot — and it is priced per square foot per JOB, not per visit. Multiplying that rate by a cleaning frequency is the commonest way these quotes are misread, and it inflates the figure several times over.
Every figure on these pages is attributed to a named source and was retrieved on .