How much house cleaners charge, and how to set your own prices.

An hourly rate is how cleaners work out what they need to earn. A price per clean is how customers prefer to buy, because they know the total before anyone arrives. Most cleaning businesses do both: they start from the hourly rate, time each type of clean, and publish fixed prices by home size. A fixed price also rewards you for getting quicker, where an hourly rate charges less for the same result.

Guides publish hourly figures for regular cleaning and per-job figures for the bigger one-off jobs, which is how the tables below are split. Some figures are per cleaner, so a team of two on the same job counts twice.

Size first: bedrooms and bathrooms are the quickest honest measure of a home, and the guides that publish prices by bedroom show the price rising with each one. In the US, Thumbtack puts a one-bedroom clean at $133 to $174 and a four-bedroom one at $191 to $286.

Then the condition of the home, pets, and the extras that are really separate tasks. UK guides put an oven clean at £55 to £77 on Checkatrade and carpet cleaning at £20 to £50 a room on MyBuilder; in Australia, Airtasker puts a single oven at A$135 to A$200. Pricing those as add-ons keeps your base price clean and lets the customer choose.

Sources: Thumbtack, Checkatrade, MyBuilder, Airtasker (checked 4 Nov 2026)

Start with the calculator below. Enter the hourly rate you want to earn, your minimum charge and what you spend on products and travel for a typical job, then the hours each clean takes you in a two-bedroom home. It scales the time for each home size and gives you a price list you can copy. Time your next few jobs of each type and replace the example hours with your own.

Then put the list into BookingMachine: one service per type of clean with the two-bedroom price as its base, and a Bedrooms price variable with a percentage for each size. The booking form does the arithmetic for every customer, so a four-bedroom home is never quoted at the two-bedroom price.

Each guide measures something slightly different. Bark reports quotes sent through its own marketplace and gives UK figures without VAT; Checkatrade gives its UK figures with VAT; Angi reports projects its US pros completed. National averages also hide wide city differences: Taskrabbit puts the London average at £33 an hour against £22 for the UK as a whole, and New York City at $51 against $33 for the US.

Use the ranges to check that your price is in the right area, then price for your own costs and your own town. A rate that is right for a sole cleaner with low travel can be wrong for a team that drives between jobs.

Sources: Bark, Checkatrade, Angi, Taskrabbit, Taskrabbit (checked 4 Nov 2026)