Cleaning & janitorial
Cleaning Business Revenue Calculator
Project revenue from cleaner capacity, jobs per day and the recurring base.
Result
Service lines rarely carry the same margin. Splitting them is the only way to see which part of the business is paying for the rest, which is frequently not the part that looks busiest.
Get a Free Business AuditWhat moves the number
- Billable hours per cleaner per week.
- Jobs per day, which route density caps.
- Recurring contracted work against one-off jobs.
Where this one goes wrong
Modelling growth on customer numbers without cleaner capacity. Cleaning growth is constrained by recruitment far more often than by demand, and a revenue plan without a hiring plan is incomplete.
Questions
About this calculator
What caps cleaning revenue?
Cleaner availability. In most markets recruiting and retaining reliable cleaners is harder than finding customers, which makes it the real constraint on growth.
How much should be recurring?
As much as possible, because it makes scheduling and staffing predictable. One-off work is higher value per job and much harder to plan around.
Does commercial work scale better?
It concentrates hours in fewer locations, which reduces travel and simplifies scheduling. The trade-off is lower rates and longer sales cycles.
The formula
revenue = jobs x average value; gross profit = revenue x margin
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How to use this calculator
- Repair jobs per month. Enter your own figure; the page starts at 28.
- Average value ($). Enter your own figure; the page starts at $195.
- Gross margin on this work (%). Enter your own figure; the page starts at 42%.
- Share of total revenue (%). Used to show what the whole business turns over.
The result updates as you type, so you can try a figure, see what it does to repair revenue per month, and change it back. Nothing you enter is sent anywhere or saved.
A worked example
These are the figures the calculator opens with. Every number in the results column below is produced by the same calculation the page runs, so you can follow it through before putting your own figures in.
What goes in
| Input | Value |
|---|---|
| Repair jobs per month | 28 |
| Average value | $195 |
| Gross margin on this work | 42% |
| Share of total revenue | 40% |
What comes out
| Result | Value |
|---|---|
| Repair revenue per month main result | $5,460 |
| Per year | $65,520 |
| Gross profit per year | $27,518 |
| Implied total business revenue | $163,800 |
The repair line brings in $65,520 a year and earns $27,518 of gross profit on it.
How sensitive the answer is
Holding everything else steady and changing only average value, this is what happens to repair revenue per month. It is worth knowing which of your inputs the answer actually hinges on, and which barely move it.
| Average value ($) | Repair revenue per month |
|---|---|
| $98 | $2,744 |
| $146 | $4,088 |
| $195 example above | $5,460 |
| $293 | $8,204 |
| $390 | $10,920 |
Every other input is held at the example value while this one changes, which is not how a real job behaves. Treat it as a guide to which number matters most, not as five separate quotes.
What each figure means
- Repair jobs per month
- A number, between 0 and 10000, starting at 28.
- Average value ($)
- A money amount, starting at $195.
- Gross margin on this work (%)
- A percentage, between 0 and 95, starting at 42%.
- Share of total revenue (%)
- Used to show what the whole business turns over.
What the results tell you
| Result | What it is |
|---|---|
| Repair revenue per month | The headline result. A money figure. |
| Per year | A money figure. |
| Gross profit per year | A money figure. |
| Implied total business revenue | A money figure. |
Time is the variable that bites
Pricing that works out on paper fails when the job takes longer than quoted. First cleans, heavily soiled sites and access problems all run over, so it is worth pricing the first visit separately from the recurring one.
Estimating is the easy part
The jobs you never hear about cost more than the ones you mis-measure. BDEVY builds the marketing, systems and automation that bring them in.