Free Cleaning Business Tools: Your First 90 Days Numbers

Three money questions come before your first paid clean: what it costs to start, what to charge for one clean and how many clients you need. Work through them below in order. They run in your browser with no signup, use your own numbers and show every step of the math, so you can check it or quote it. Together they are your First 90 Days numbers.

1. What will it cost to start?

List what you will buy before your first paid clean. Leave blank anything you already own.

What you'll buy before your first paid clean

Leave blank anything you already own or don't need.

Cleaning products (starter supply)$

Vacuum$

Mops, buckets, microfiber cloths and a caddy$

Gloves and other protective gear$

Business name (DBA) or entity filing fee$Set by your county or state.

Local business license or permit$Check your city and county.

General liability insurance, first year$Insureon 2026 median for house cleaners: $51/month ($608/year). Replace with your quote.

Janitorial bond, first year (if clients ask)$Insureon 2026 median: $9/month, about $108/year.

Website and domain$

Business cards, flyers, door hangers$

Phone, scheduling or invoicing app$

Shirts or uniform$

Earn it back (optional)

Profit per job (price − supplies − travel)$Get it from the price estimator.

Fills this with the low end of your step 2 price minus supplies and travel. You can still change it.

Your startup cost

$608

Only the insurance line starts filled in, from a sourced median. Every other price is yours to find locally.

2. What should I charge for one clean?

Turn your hours, rate, supplies and travel into a price for a standard, deep or move-out clean.

1. The home and the clean

Home sizeStarting hours from the worked example in our pricing guide. Not a national average.Standard-clean hours (your estimate)Replace with your own timed hours when you have them.Square feet (optional)Only used to show the price per square foot.

Standard × 1 Deep clean × 1.5 hours Move-out × 1.75 hours

Add-ons: add the minutes each takes you

Inside the ovenminInside the fridgeminInside cabinetsminInterior windowsminChange bed linensmin

2. Your rate and costs

Hourly rate you want$Supplies for one clean$Round-trip milesYour cost per mile$IRS 2026 rate for comparison: $0.725 (Jan–Jun), $0.76 (Jul–Dec).Buffer for unpaid time%First-visit allowanceminExtra minutes for the high end of the range. 0 for none.Minimum job price (optional)$

Suggested price range

$185

Example values from our pricing guide, not a recommended price. Prices vary by area: check 3 to 5 local cleaners before you quote.

3. How many clients do I need?

Turn a monthly income goal into the number of recurring clients and cleans per week it takes. The button fills in your step 2 price; you can change any number.

Your goal and your prices

Monthly take-home goal$Example. What you want to keep each month.Price per clean$Example from our pricing guide.Supplies and travel per clean$Example: $8 supplies + $8.40 travel.

Fills price per clean with the low end of your step 2 price, and supplies and travel from step 2. You can still change them.

Monthly fixed costs$Example: Insureon 2026 medians, liability $51 + bond $9. Add phone, apps.Tax set-aside (optional)%Ask a tax pro. Self-employment tax alone is 15.3% (IRS).Hours per clean (optional)To show your weekly hours.

How often clients book

Recurring clients you need

Example values from our guides. Replace them with your own. Not tax or financial advice.

Your First 90 Days numbers

These update as you change the three tools above. The fields start with labelled examples, so replace them with yours.

1. Startup cost—
2. Price for one clean—
3. Clients you need—

Just need one of them?

House cleaning price estimator: Price a standard, deep or move-out clean from your hours, rate, supplies and travel, with every step of the math shown.
How many clients do I need?: Turn a monthly income goal into the number of recurring clients and cleans per week it takes.
Startup cost estimator: Add up what you’ll spend before your first paid clean, and see how many jobs it takes to earn it back.

How these tools work

Your numbers, not ours. Where a field starts filled in, it’s labelled: an example from our house cleaning pricing guide, or a figure a guide sources (like Insureon’s 2026 insurance medians). Replace them with yours.
The math is shown. Every result lists the formula with your numbers in it, so you can check it by hand.
Nothing is saved or sent. The tools run in your browser. Close the page and your numbers are gone.
Free to share. Each tool page has a code to embed it on your own site and a line to cite it.

New to all of this? The Cleaning Business guide walks through each step in order, and these tools fit into it: startup costs in step 1, prices in step 2, and client numbers when you plan your first months.

These tools are general information, not legal, tax, insurance or financial advice. See our Disclaimer.