Window cleaning business
Estimate revenue per job, route costs, monthly profit, profit per hour, and startup payback for a residential or small commercial window washing business.
Enter the average number of windows, price per window, jobs per day, and work days per month. Then add job supplies, paid labor, travel, monthly overhead, and startup equipment.
If you work alone, enter a realistic hourly value for your own labor instead of treating your time as free. This separates business profit from compensation for doing the cleaning.
Results are rough planning estimates. Replace the defaults with your own quotes, route times, close rates, and completed-job records.
Revenue per job = windows per job × price per window.
Direct job cost = supplies + labor hours × hourly labor cost + fuel/travel.
Profit per job = revenue per job − direct job cost.
Estimated monthly profit = profit per job × jobs per day × work days − monthly overhead.
Startup payback = startup cost ÷ estimated monthly profit.
Using the defaults, 28 windows at $8 each produce $224 in revenue per job. Supplies, 1.5 labor hours, and travel are subtracted before the calculator estimates monthly profit from three jobs per day over 18 work days.
That schedule is only useful if demand, drive time, access, setup, and weather make it achievable. Test a slower schedule and a lower average ticket before relying on an optimistic case.
Residential work may carry larger one-time tickets and more detailed cleaning. Small commercial storefront work can repeat more often but may have lower tickets and tighter route-density requirements. Model each service mix separately.
A per-window price may need adjustments for height, access, screens, tracks, hard-water staining, French panes, storm windows, construction debris, interior access, minimum trip charges, and local demand.
Count windows consistently before quoting. Define whether one pane, one opening, or an interior-and-exterior pair counts as a “window,” and explain extras before work begins.
Calculate revenue from window count and price, subtract supplies, labor, and travel for profit per job, then multiply by monthly job volume and subtract monthly overhead.
Include supplies, poles, ladders, water-fed equipment, labor, fuel, insurance, software, advertising, callbacks, equipment replacement, and owner compensation.
Either method can work. A per-window starting price plus a minimum service charge and adjustments for access, height, screens, tracks, and difficult glass can protect the job minimum.
No. Actual results depend on local prices, job mix, travel, weather, sales, labor efficiency, insurance, taxes, and demand.