A price list is worth having and it is not worth downloading. The reason is simple: the only thing a price list encodes is your cost base, and yours is not the same as the business that published theirs. A list built on somebody else's wages, in somebody else's city, with somebody else's drive times, will be either unwinnable or unprofitable and you will not be able to tell which. What is genuinely transferable is the structure, and that is what this page gives you.
What a cleaning price list has to contain
A base for the standard recurring clean, expressed the way you sell it, whether that is by bedrooms and bathrooms or by square feet. A separate rate for the first visit, which is always longer. A deep clean, priced as a multiple of the standard rather than invented. Move-in and move-out, priced from the property being empty. Add-ons stated individually: inside oven, inside fridge, interior windows, cabinets, laundry. And a minimum charge underneath everything, because setup time does not shrink.
Building the base rate from your own numbers
Take a house you clean now and cost it: paid hours across the crew, the loaded wage with the employer's payroll tax on it, supplies, the trip and overhead per hour. Apply the margin you want by dividing rather than adding. That gives one true price. Do it for a small, a medium and a large house and you have three points, and the list is the line through them. This is an afternoon of work and it will outlast every downloadable list.
What to publish and what to keep back
Publish the standard recurring price and the add-ons; those attract the customers you want and filter the ones you do not. Keep back anything where the price depends on something you cannot see: hoarding, post-renovation dust, a property that has not been touched in a year. Publishing a number for those invites a quote you will regret, and an enquiry form is the right answer instead.
Keeping it honest as costs move
A price list should carry a date and be rebuilt annually from the same arithmetic. If your supplies are certified under a programme such as EPA Safer Choice, or you have moved to different products, the consumable cost changes and the list should follow. The point of building it from cost rather than from the market is that updating it is mechanical rather than nerve-wracking.
Questions people ask about free cleaning service price list
Where can I get a free cleaning price list PDF?
Plenty of sites offer one. It will be built on costs that are not yours, which makes it a template for the structure and not a source for the numbers.
Should the price list be on my website?
The recurring price and the add-ons, yes: it filters enquiries. One-offs that depend on the property's condition, no.
How many tiers should it have?
Three is usually enough for size, plus the add-ons. More tiers make the conversation longer without making the price better.