Free bid-check tool
Janitorial Labor Hours & Crew Size Calculator
Is your cleaning vendor staffing the building, or cutting corners? Enter your square footage and space type to see the labor hours a proper nightly clean takes, the crew size, and the lowest realistic monthly cost.
Benchmark
- Labor hours / night
- 8.3
- Crew size
- 3
- Hours / month
- 180
- Labor cost floor / month
- $5,052
At about 3,000 sq ft per labor hour. Excludes supplies, equipment, and periodic floor work.
Free to use, share, and link to. No sign-up required. Results are planning estimates, not legal, engineering, or code-official determinations.
Florida facilities
Get a bid that's actually staffed
We walk the building in person, price the real labor hours, and put a named supervisor on the account. Tampa-based, with local crews for 5-night contracts across Florida.
- • Nightly janitorial, 5 nights a week or any schedule you need
- • We walk the building in person and give one fixed monthly price
- • EPA-registered disinfectants and food-safe sanitizers
- • Based in Tampa, with dedicated local crews for accounts across Florida
Prefer to talk? Call (813) 738-4220.
How to use this to audit a bid
Enter your current monthly price. The tool divides it by your loaded labor rate to show how many hours it can actually pay for. If a bid covers far less than 100% of the estimated hours, ask the vendor for their staffing plan in writing.
Why production rates vary
Dense call-center workstations, exam rooms, and restaurant dining rooms take more time per square foot than open office floors or warehouse aisles. Restroom count, floor type, and clutter change the number too. Pair this with our scope of work builder so every bidder prices the same tasks.
Florida labor reality
Florida's minimum wage has been stepping up each September toward $15 an hour, and workers' comp and liability insurance add to it. Bids that only work at old wage levels tend to lose staff, which shows up as missed nights.
Service area
Tampa, Hillsborough County & statewide Florida
Hillsborough County
Tampa · Brandon · Riverview · Plant City · Temple Terrace · Valrico · Lutz · Apollo Beach · Ruskin · Sun City Center · Wesley Chapel / New Tampa · Westchase · Town 'n' Country · Seffner · Gibsonton
Tampa & Hillsborough service areaAcross Florida
St. Petersburg · Clearwater · Lakeland · Sarasota · Bradenton · Orlando · Jacksonville · Fort Myers · Miami · Fort Lauderdale · Tallahassee · Gainesville — and other Florida markets for recurring multi-night contracts.
All service areasFAQ
Common questions
- How many square feet can one janitor clean per hour?
- For routine nightly office cleaning, most production rates fall between about 2,500 and 4,000 square feet per hour. Medical spaces and restaurants are much slower; open warehouse floors are much faster.
- How do I know if a cleaning bid is understaffed?
- Divide the monthly price by the number of cleaning nights and by a fully loaded labor rate. If the hours that buys are well below this calculator's estimate, the vendor will either cut tasks or cut quality.
- What is a fully loaded labor rate?
- Wages plus payroll taxes, workers' compensation, insurance, supervision, and supplies. In Florida it typically runs well above the hourly wage.
- Where do these production rates come from?
- They're mid-range planning values in line with commonly published cleaning-time references, including the type of benchmarks in ISSA's 612 Cleaning Times. Your building's layout, clutter, and floor types change the real number.
- Do you take 5-night contracts outside Tampa?
- Yes. We quote in person, start the account ourselves, then staff it with a dedicated local crew. Recurring 5-night-a-week accounts across Florida are a good fit.
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