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Pricing tools for STR cleaners
Built by a working cleaning company, for the people doing this work. One spreadsheet prices a single turnover. The other prices the whole business. The first one is free.
Priced from the mop, not the spreadsheet
We run short-term rental turnovers across Tempe and the East Valley. Every tool here started as a spreadsheet we built for our own jobs, because the numbers that decide whether a clean is worth doing were never the ones on the invoice.
When we finally added up the true cost of one turnover, including payroll taxes, workers comp, mileage, quality assurance visits, and laundry, we found our pricing had been built on guesses. These are the spreadsheets we fixed it with, cleaned up enough to hand to someone else.
If you clean short-term rentals for a living, whether that is your own book of properties or a company with crews, they will tell you in an afternoon what took us a lot longer to work out.
What a turnover actually costs
Take a typical $165 clean. Cleaner pay takes $74.25 of it. Payroll burden, the taxes and workers comp nobody remembers, takes another $11.14. Mileage and supplies between properties take $15.12. What is left for overhead and profit is $64.49, or 39% of the invoice.
That last number is what pays for a slow summer, a backup cleaner, insurance, and the van that needs tires. Price without it and you find out the hard way, usually in July. The free calculator runs that math on your own numbers, for your own market.
The two tools
Start free to price one property. Move up when you need to know whether the whole operation works.
STR Turnover Quote Calculator Lite — free
Price any home by bedrooms and bathrooms, then see what the turnover really leaves you. Cleaner pay and effective hourly rate, add-ons for a second floor, a pool, and pets, and an upgrade path to the full model. Pay what you want, including nothing. Get it free on Gumroad →
STR Cleaning Pricing & Profit Calculator — $29
The whole business, not one clean. A price grid from studios to six bedrooms, a minimum-wage check that accounts for drive time, and a monthly profit and loss with break-even by property count. One payment, no subscription. Get the calculator →
Both work where you already work
Excel and Google Sheets, instant download after checkout, no add-ins or macros to install. Open it, put your own numbers in the input cells, and the rest calculates.
Which one you need
The costs most quotes miss
Everything below comes out of the same invoice, and all of it is in the full model.
Per clean
- Payroll taxes and workers comp on top of the wage.
- Drive time between properties, paid or unpaid.
- Mileage, fuel, and vehicle wear on a routed day.
- Supplies and consumables actually used per visit.
- Laundry, whether in-house or through a partner.
Per month
- Insurance, licensing, and background checks.
- Quality assurance visits to completed turnovers.
- The cost of covering a sick cleaner on a changeover day.
- Software, phones, and the admin nobody bills for.
- Slow months, which the busy ones have to carry.
Get the tools
Both download instantly from Gumroad and open in Excel or Google Sheets.
Start free
The Lite calculator prices one turnover and shows what it leaves you. Pay what you want, including nothing. Get it free →
Go deeper
The full model prices every property size and runs the monthly P&L for the business. $29, one time. Get the calculator →
Or come work with us
If you would rather clean than run the business side, we hire turnover and QA cleaners across the East Valley. See open positions →
Questions about the tools
Do I need Excel?
No. Both work in Excel and in Google Sheets, with no add-ins or macros. If you can open a spreadsheet, you can run them.
Is the free one actually free?
Yes. It is priced pay-what-you-want, so you can enter zero and download it. Paying something is optional and appreciated, not required.
Are the numbers specific to Arizona?
The defaults are ours, which means Phoenix-area wages, drive times, and supply costs. Every input is yours to change, so the structure works in any market.
I am a solo cleaner, not a company. Is the full model overkill?
It is built to answer whether a business works at a given property count, which matters most when you are deciding whether to hire your first person. If you are pricing one clean at a time, start with the free one.
Will you tell me what to charge?
No spreadsheet can set your price, because your wages, drive times, and market are not ours. What these do is show what a given price leaves you, so the decision is made with arithmetic rather than a guess.
Do you hire cleaners in the East Valley?
We do, continuously. If you are in the Phoenix area and looking for steady turnover work rather than pricing your own, see our open positions.