Free House Cleaning Pricing Worksheet: Price Your First 10 Jobs

Not sure what to charge for your first clients? This free house cleaning pricing worksheet from Day One Business Kits™ walks you through a price built from your own numbers: the pay you want, how long the home takes, and what supplies and driving cost you. Then it helps you track your first 10 jobs so you can see whether your prices hold up.

Pages of the free house cleaning pricing worksheet: the cover, the pricing formula worked through and the 10-job tracker

What’s inside the worksheet

Six printable pages you can fill in by hand or in a PDF app. Do pages 2 to 4 in one sitting and you’ll have a real price for one home, ready to send.

  1. How to use it: what you’ll need (a pen, a calculator, any supply receipts) and the plan for tonight.
  2. Step 1, set your hourly rate: work it out from what you want to earn each month and the hours you can clean, then check it against 3 local services.
  3. Step 2, add up your costs per job: supplies, travel, a buffer for unpaid time, your minimum price, and your deep clean and move-out multipliers.
  4. Step 3, time a clean and price your first job: one formula, worked through line by line.
  5. Step 4, price your first 10 jobs: a quote table, the questions to ask before you quote, and one line of scope to send with your price.
  6. Step 5, track your first 10 jobs: log real hours, see what you actually earned per hour and adjust your numbers.

How the pricing math works

A house cleaning price starts with your time. Multiply the hours a job takes by your hourly rate, add your supply and travel costs, then add a small buffer for the time nobody pays you for, like quoting and scheduling.

Job price = (hours × hourly rate + supplies + travel) × (1 + profit buffer), rounded up, and never below your minimum

$185(3 × $50 + $8 + $8.40) × 1.10 = $183.04, rounded up

Example only, not a recommended price. Prices vary by area.

Example only, not a recommended price: a 2 bed / 2 bath home at 3 hours and $50 an hour, with $8 of supplies and 12 miles of driving at $0.70 a mile, comes to (3 × $50 + $8 + $8.40) × 1.10 = $183.04, rounded up to $185. Your rate, costs and local prices will be different, which is why the worksheet has you check what cleaners near you charge.

Your hourly rate also has to cover things like taxes and unpaid time spent quoting and driving. The IRS Self-Employed Individuals Tax Center explains the basics, and a tax professional can help you plan for your situation.

Who it’s for

This worksheet is for you if you’re about to quote your first house cleaning clients, or you’ve done a few jobs and suspect you’re charging too little. It’s built for residential cleaning. Commercial and office cleaning bids work differently, so it won’t fit those.

Want the math done for you?

The House Cleaning Pricing Calculator runs the same formula automatically in a spreadsheet: enter the home’s details and your costs, and it gives you a price. If you undercharge one every-2-weeks client by $10 a visit, that’s $260 a year from one client. The calculator is $12 and shows what you earn per hour before you send a quote.

Prices vary by area. Example numbers on this page aren’t price recommendations. See our Disclaimer.

Last updated: October 11, 2026