Commercial cleaning pricing in Austin
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Commercial cleaning in Austin costs $130 to $350 per visit for routine recurring service, and $250 to $1,000 for a first-time deep clean. Square footage sets most of the number and frequency sets the rest — a single suite sits near the floor, a large venue near the top. Those are Bailey & Bear’s own rates, not a market average.
What we actually charge
We publish our rates because you cannot compare bids without a reference point. The table below shows where different kinds of space land in the range, and which cost guide covers your job.
To get an actual figure rather than a range, send your square footage and how many nights a week you need. We will put a per-visit and a monthly number to it, free.
These are our own per-visit rates for routine recurring commercial cleaning, not a scraped market average. The table below is the honest version: the two ends of the range are real numbers we charge, and the rows in between describe where a space usually sits between them.
| Type of space | What moves the number | Per visit |
|---|---|---|
| Single suite or small office | Smallest footprint, one restroom, light traffic | At or near the $130 floor |
| Mid-size office on one floor | More restrooms, a break room, mixed floor types | Lower-middle of the range |
| Retail, clinic, or managed common areas | Public-facing surfaces, glass, a standard that cannot slip | Middle of the range |
| Large venue, multi-floor, or post-event turnaround | Largest footprint and the heaviest reset, usually overnight | At or near $350 |
| First-time deep clean, any of the above | One-time catch-up before recurring service starts | $250–$1,000, quoted separately |
We do not quote a commercial visit below $130. There is only one way to get under it, and that is to book less time on site than the space actually needs — which shows up about six weeks in as skipped restrooms and a standard nobody can hold. If a bid you are holding is well under this range, ask how many hours it buys before you sign it. If it is well over, you are probably paying for a sales layer.
Three jobs are priced differently and are not in the table above. Post-construction cleaning is priced per square foot or per project, because the mess drives the labor rather than the floor plan — see post-construction cleaning cost. High-mess after-hours bar and restaurant work is quoted per venue after we see the room, not off a published band. And cook-line degreasing is scoped on its own. Hood, duct, and exhaust cleaning we do not do at all — that is a certified NFPA 96 trade and we refer it to certified partners.
“Commercial cleaning” is several different jobs bought in different ways. This page is the overview. Each guide below carries the numbers for its own job.
Every input on this page moves one variable. Square footage, frequency, floor types, restroom count, what hours the crew works — none of them are priced individually. They are priced because each one changes how many crew-minutes the space needs, and minutes are the only thing a cleaning company sells. That is the whole mechanism, and it is why a price that looks arbitrary usually is not.
It is also the most useful thing to know when you are holding two bids. A cheaper number is not a discount on the same work. It is fewer minutes in the building, bought by cutting something — and the table below is where you find out what.
| Input | Why it moves minutes | What it does to your price |
|---|---|---|
| Square footage | Floor area is the one thing that has to be crossed on every visit no matter how lightly the space is used | Sets the base. Moves the number more than anything else on this list |
| Restroom count | Restrooms are the slowest square footage in any building — fixtures, dispensers, floors and a standard that is checked | Two suites of identical size price differently if one has four restrooms and the other has one |
| Kitchen or break room | Food waste, appliance exteriors and a sink that has to be emptied rather than wiped | Adds a fixed block of time per visit, largely independent of building size |
| Floor mix | One surface can be run in a straight line; four surfaces mean changing method and equipment mid-visit | A mixed floor plate costs more per square foot than an open one of the same area |
| Traffic and use | Soil arrives on shoes and hands. A public-facing floor loads faster than a quiet one of the same size | Retail and clinics sit above offices of equal footprint |
| Frequency | The longer the gap between visits, the more each visit has to catch up | Lowers the per-visit rate as it rises — see the monthly math below |
| Access and hours | Time spent getting in, moving between floors and getting trash out is time not spent cleaning | A booked freight elevator or a single trash path can add minutes before any work starts |
| How specific the scope is | Vague scopes get priced with a cushion, because the risk has to sit somewhere | A written, specific scope usually prices lower than a loose one, not higher |
The last row is the one buyers underuse. Sending a real scope — square footage, restroom count, floor types, nights per week, and what must be done versus what would be nice — is the cheapest way to get a lower honest number, because it removes the guess a bidder would otherwise price for. If you want the exterior version of that exercise, our pressure washing checklist walks through the same idea for outdoor work.
A per-visit rate is not a budget line. Nobody approves “$180 a visit” — they approve a monthly number. So the arithmetic below is the one every buyer ends up doing, done here in the open. These are not new rates: they are the two ends of our published $130–$350 band multiplied by the visits in a month. Your real number sits somewhere inside each row and comes from a quote, not from this table.
| Schedule | Visits per month | Monthly range at the published band |
|---|---|---|
| Nightly, five nights a week | About 21 | $2,730 – $7,350 |
| Three nights a week | About 13 | $1,690 – $4,550 |
| Twice a week | About 9 | $1,170 – $3,150 |
| Weekly | About 4 | $520 – $1,400 |
| Every other week | 2 | $260 – $700 |
| Monthly | 1 | $130 – $350 |
Halving the schedule does not halve the cost of keeping the space to the same standard, for two reasons that are easy to miss when you are reading the monthly column.
The first is that soil accumulates. A floor cleaned twice a week is being maintained; the same floor cleaned every other week is being recovered each time, and recovery takes longer per visit than maintenance does. So the per-visit price on a thin schedule sits higher in the band than the same space on a dense one.
The second is that some of every visit is fixed. Getting a crew to the address, in through building access, set up, and the trash out to the dumpster costs roughly the same whether the visit is an hour or three. Fewer visits spread that fixed cost over fewer productive minutes.
Both of those cut the other way too, which is the useful part: going from every other week to weekly usually costs less than doubling the bill, because each visit gets easier. If you are choosing a schedule rather than pricing one you have already chosen, how often a commercial space should be cleaned is the page for that decision; janitorial service cost covers the same math bought as a contract.
A recurring per-visit rate covers the work that happens on every visit. Four things sit outside it, and every dispute we have seen between an Austin buyer and a cleaning company starts in one of them. Ask about all four before you compare two numbers.
Stripping and refinishing hard floors, carpet extraction, high dusting above reach height, and interior or exterior glass beyond entry doors are periodic jobs on their own intervals, not nightly tasks. They are quoted per occurrence or built into an annual plan. A per-visit rate that appears to include them is either priced with them buried in it or is not going to do them.
Paper towel, toilet tissue, liners, and hand soap are a real monthly cost, and there are only two honest ways to handle them: you buy them and we stock them, or we supply them and it is a separate line. Neither is wrong. What causes the argument is a quote that never says which one it is, and then a first invoice that does.
An after-hours visit resets the space overnight. It does not cover a lobby that needs attention at 2pm, restrooms checked through a busy day, or a conference floor turned between meetings. That is day porter coverage, priced by hours on site rather than per visit, and it sits alongside a recurring contract rather than inside it.
Three kinds of work are quoted their own way and are not in the band on this page: post-construction cleaning after a build, after-hours bar and restaurant work, and exterior pressure washing. Event turnarounds are scoped per event — see event venue cleaning in Austin. None of them is an add-on to a per-visit rate; each is its own quote.
A commercial cleaning price is a quote against a scope, so it holds exactly as long as the scope does. Five things genuinely change it, and it is worth knowing them at signing rather than discovering them on an invoice.
What should not change it: an ordinary busy month, a one-off spill, or a holiday. Those are inside a scope that was written properly. If you want the version of this that a property team signs, property management cleaning covers how multi-building accounts are structured; office cleaning cost covers the single-tenant case.
The biggest drivers are square footage, how often you want service, and the scope of work. A lightly-used office costs less than a high-traffic retail floor or a venue reset of the same size. Floor types, restroom and kitchen counts, and add-ons (carpet, pressure washing, event turnarounds) also move the number.
Most Austin commercial cleaning is quoted per visit (based on square footage and scope) or per square foot for larger recurring accounts. One-time and post-construction cleans are usually priced per project. Bailey & Bear scopes each quote to your actual space rather than a flat menu price.
A recurring schedule keeps a space maintained, so each visit is faster and cheaper per visit than a single deep clean. If you are comparing costs, ask for both a recurring per-visit rate and a one-time price so you can see the difference for your space.
Routine commercial and office cleaning generally covers trash, surfaces, floors, restrooms, and kitchen/break areas. Post-construction cleaning adds dust, debris, and finish detailing. Ask exactly what is in and out of scope before comparing two quotes.
Set a recurring schedule instead of on-call one-offs, bundle related work (interior plus pressure washing or estate exterior washing), and right-size the scope to what the space actually needs. Clear scope up front prevents surprise charges.
A real quote beats any online estimate. Send your square footage, desired frequency, and service type — plus a few photos — and Bailey & Bear returns a clear, itemized price for your Austin space.
Commercial cleaning in Austin costs $130 to $350 per visit for routine recurring service, and $250 to $1,000 for a first-time deep clean. Square footage sets most of the number and frequency sets the rest — a single suite sits near the floor, a large venue near the top. Those are Bailey & Bear's own rates, not a market average.
Yes. Recurring schedules (nightly, weekly, or a set number of visits per month) are almost always cheaper per visit than a single one-time clean, because the space stays maintained and each visit takes less time.
They are our own rates, which is why we publish them. A market average is assembled from other companies' bids and tells you nothing about what we will charge you. If a quote you are holding sits well above this range you are probably paying for a sales layer; well below it, ask how many hours on site the price actually buys.
Because there is only one way to get under it: book less time on site than the space needs. That does not show up on day one, it shows up about six weeks in as skipped restrooms and a standard nobody can hold. $130 is the floor at which the crew can actually finish the scope we wrote down, so it is the floor we quote.
Three jobs are priced differently. Post-construction cleaning is priced per square foot or per project because the mess drives the labor, not the floor plan. High-mess after-hours bar and restaurant work is quoted per venue after we see the room rather than off a published band. Cook-line degreasing is scoped on its own. Hood, duct, and exhaust cleaning we do not do at all — that is a certified NFPA 96 trade and we refer it out.
Both, together. You get the per-visit rate and the monthly figure it adds up to at your chosen frequency, so you can put a real number in a budget instead of an hourly rate that moves every month. If you want the contract version of that math, see our Austin janitorial service cost guide.
Send your space size, how often you want it cleaned, and the type of work, plus a few photos if possible. Bailey & Bear will return a clear, itemized quote for your Austin space. Call 512-689-8346 or use the quote form.
Crew time on site. Square footage, restroom count, floor mix, traffic, frequency and building access are not priced separately — each one is priced because it changes how many minutes the space needs. That is why a cheaper bid is rarely a discount on the same work; it is fewer minutes in the building, and something has been cut to get there.
Multiply the per-visit rate by the visits in a month. At our published $130 to $350 band that is roughly $2,730 to $7,350 a month for five nights a week, $1,690 to $4,550 for three nights, $520 to $1,400 weekly, and $260 to $700 every other week. That is arithmetic on a published band, not a quote — your real number comes from your square footage and scope.
No. Two things stop it. Soil accumulates, so a space on a thin schedule is being recovered on each visit rather than maintained, and recovery takes longer per visit. And part of every visit is fixed — travel, building access, setup and getting trash out cost about the same whether the visit runs one hour or three. Fewer visits spread that fixed cost over fewer productive minutes.
It covers the work done on every visit. Four things sit outside it: periodic floor and surface work such as strip-and-refinish, carpet extraction and high dusting; consumables like paper, liners and soap, which either you buy or we supply as a separate line; daytime day porter coverage; and jobs quoted on a different basis entirely, such as post-construction, after-hours bar and restaurant work, and exterior pressure washing.
Five things genuinely change it: the space gets bigger, the use intensifies, the schedule changes, the working hours move, or work outside the written scope has quietly been happening. An ordinary busy month, a one-off spill or a holiday should not change it — those are inside a scope that was written properly.
Medical and dental suites are quoted on the same math — see medical office cleaning in Austin for the office-side scope.
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Getting commercial cleaner quotes in Austin, TX is simple: tell us your square footage, the type of space (office, medical, retail, warehouse, or venue), and how often you need service, and Bailey & Bear returns a written quote — usually within a day, free and no-obligation. For larger accounts we can do a quick walkthrough first.
Commercial cleaner prices in Austin, TX depend on square footage, frequency (recurring service is cheaper per visit than one-time), scope of work, and how the space is used. In practice most of our accounts land between $130 and $350 per visit, and a deep clean is quoted separately at $250 to $1,000 — square footage moves those numbers more than anything else. Those are our own rates rather than a market average. We still price each account to the actual space and give you a clear per-visit and monthly figure up front.
Yes — Bailey & Bear provides commercial cleaning services and commercial maid service across Austin and the surrounding metro, including offices, medical, retail, event venues, and property-managed buildings, on recurring or one-time schedules.
Austin commercial maid service pricing is built from the same inputs as any commercial account: square footage, how many visits per week or month, restroom and kitchen counts, floor types, and whether the work happens during or after business hours. Recurring schedules land lower per visit than one-time work because a maintained space takes less time each visit. Most recurring accounts fall in the $130 to $350 per-visit range quoted above; a first-time deep clean is quoted separately because it does the catch-up work a maintained space no longer needs. We quote a per-visit number and a monthly number together, so you can see the real budget line rather than a per-hour rate that moves every month.
Yes. Commercial property cleaning in Austin, TX covers the shared and back-of-house areas a property team is responsible for — lobbies, elevators, corridors, stairwells, restrooms, amenity rooms, and parking-level entries — rather than the interior of any one tenant suite. As a commercial property cleaning company we quote these portfolio-wide when a manager runs more than one building, which usually prices better than a separate vendor per address. See Austin property management cleaning for how those accounts are structured, or our commercial cleaning company in Austin, TX for the full recurring scope.
Bailey & Bear has cleaned Austin venues including Brazos Hall, 800 Congress, Green Light Social, and the Voodoo Room. Venue accounts are the sharpest test of a quote holding up: the room has to reset overnight, on a fixed booking calendar, with no room to renegotiate scope mid-month. The pricing above is the same structure those accounts run on. For venue-specific scope see event venue cleaning in Austin, or construction site cleaning in Austin, TX if the space is still being built out.