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Free commercial cleaning profitability calculator

What did this cleaning account actually make?

Enter one completed month of real revenue and costs. See the account’s estimated contribution, margin, recurring gap to target, and the specific price or labor change that would close it.

The contract is the baseline. Actuals tell the truth.Labor runs long, wages change, supplies creep and one-time expenses happen. This check separates the monthly result from the recurring run-rate so you do not make a permanent pricing decision from a one-time event.
Enter one real account

Monthly actuals

Use a normal completed month. Most owners only need revenue, labor and supplies.
Estimate payroll taxes, workers’ comp and other direct payroll burden. You can refine it later.
Owner cleaning time and optional direct costs
A simple starting point is what you would have to pay someone else to do those cleaning hours.
If you personally clean this account and your time is not already included in the labor number above, enter it here. This prevents unpaid owner time from making the account look more profitable than it really is.
This free check runs in your browser and does not save the numbers entered here. “Contribution” means account revenue less the direct costs entered; it is before company overhead, taxes and owner profit distributions. Owner cleaning time entered above is treated as an economic labor cost.
Your result

Account profitability

Enter the actual numbers from one account to see the result.
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ESTIMATED ACCOUNT CONTRIBUTION$00% margin
ACTUAL MARGIN0%
RUN-RATE MARGIN0%
LABOR % OF REVENUE0%
RECURRING TARGET GAP$0
ANNUALIZED RECURRING GAP$0
PRICE INCREASE NEEDED$0
One account is useful. The portfolio is where margin disappears.

ProfitWatch tracks every recurring account by month, flags missing actuals, ranks the recurring recovery opportunity and turns the result into pricing or labor action.

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How to use this commercial cleaning profit calculator

Measure the account, then decide whether labor or pricing needs to change.

A cleaning contract can have strong revenue and still miss its target margin. This calculator focuses on the recurring account economics: revenue, labor, payroll burden, supplies, other direct costs and any owner cleaning time that is not already included in payroll. The result is an account-level contribution estimate, not company net profit.

For a useful check, use a normal completed month rather than an unusually heavy project month. Compare the recurring run-rate with your target account margin, then investigate the driver before making a permanent pricing decision.

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