Cleaning resources
You know how to clean. Now the business needs running.
Pricing, payroll, clients, hiring and software all compete for the same brain, usually between jobs. This hub is about the business side of cleaning, not cleaning technique.
Gustry’s cleaning resources help you see what jobs actually make, what your price floor needs to be, which clients need attention, when a first hire is affordable, where expansion revenue makes sense, and when software actually pays. Built for the path from solo operator to first employee to first crew.
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Cleaning Profitability + Pricing + Solo-to-Crew System
One operating model for job margin, client mix, price floors and first-hire economics. The free calculators answer one question at a time; this connects them across the whole business — shared assumptions, a full client portfolio, pricing scenarios and hire comparisons in one model.
Working descriptor only. No price has been set and it is not for sale. The preview is open so the direction can be reviewed while it is being built.
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Find where jobs, clients and drive time are eating your margin.
Is this cleaning job actually profitable?
Analyze one job: contribution profit, fully loaded margin, allocated overhead, break-even price and the price needed to hit your own target margin.
Open the toolAvailable nowKeep, raise or drop this client?
Analyze one recurring client: fully loaded profit per visit, monthly and annualized effect, target price and the levers to test before you renegotiate.
Open the toolAvailable nowWhen to raise prices
The signals that justify a price increase on an existing client or your whole book, and how to sequence it.
Open the toolAvailable nowPricing frameworks
How to build a price that supports payroll instead of matching whatever the last quote in town was.
Open the toolEarn more
Increase the value of the customers you already have without selling random add-ons.
First clean vs recurring economics
Why the first deep clean and the recurring visit need different pricing logic, and how to set both.
Open the toolAvailable nowWhich cleaning add-ons are actually worth offering?
Compare up to ten add-on and expansion services by fully loaded profit, profit per productive labor hour and modeled monthly profit at your own attach rate.
Open the toolGrow without breaking it
Know when you can afford help — and what systems you actually need next.
Can I Afford to Hire My First Cleaner?
Model payroll cost, productive capacity, owner hours freed, payroll reserve and break-even jobs using your own numbers.
Open the toolAvailable nowDo I need cleaning business software yet?
Model whether admin time saved and recovered lead contribution can plausibly pay for a subscription, including setup time and payback, before you compare any vendor.
Open the toolSolo to first crew
Onboarding, quality checks and callout coverage for the first two or three cleaners.
Not published yetStart with these guides
Four questions most owner-operators hit first. Each guide ends at the free calculator that does the arithmetic.
How much should a cleaning business charge?
There is no correct national cleaning price. Build yours from labor, owner replacement value, supplies, travel, payment fees, overhead and your own target margin.
Open GuideWhat determines your profit margin
Separate contribution profit from fully loaded profit, and see the drivers that actually move a cleaning business margin: owner labor, nonbillable time, overhead, fees, routing and scope creep.
Open GuideIs this client profitable?
Analyze a recurring cleaning client per visit and per month. See why high revenue can still be weak economics, and what to test before repricing or replacing.
Open GuideWhen to hire your first cleaner
Busy is not the same as financially ready. Model loaded payroll, utilization, new revenue versus owner replacement, reserve coverage and break-even jobs first.
OpenWhere to go next
Free tools for cleaning business owners
Calculators and decision tools that run on your own numbers.
Open GuidesCleaning business guides
Pricing, true labor cost, client economics and first-hire guides for owner-operators.
Open SoftwareWhen cleaning software is worth paying for
How to tell whether your operation has outgrown a calendar and a spreadsheet.
OpenSupporting documents from the wider library
These general small-business documents are useful supporting components once the numbers make sense. They are not the core of what we are building here.
Client intake form template
Capture scope, access details and expectations before the first clean so nothing is assumed.
Open Free templateSOP template
Write down the way a recurring clean should be done so a new cleaner can repeat it.
Open Free templateEmployee onboarding checklist
Keep the first two weeks of a new cleaner predictable instead of improvised.
OpenResearched, written and edited by Gustry. Formulas are published on the page, sources are cited and dated where claims matter, and we do not claim firsthand operating or product-testing experience.