- A standard visit in Los Angeles averages about $171, with most households paying between $119 and $232. A number far below that usually buys a shorter visit, not a better deal.
- Hourly rates across the city run $25 to $80 per cleaner. Our standard house and apartment cleaning starts at $60 per hour with a three-hour minimum, which puts a first visit at $180.
- Deep cleaning and move-out work costs 1.5 to 2 times a standard clean because it includes inside appliances, grout and baseboards. We bill that work at $75 per hour, so $225 is the floor.
- Condition moves the price further than square footage does. Hard water alone can add 30 to 60 minutes per bathroom to a first visit.
- Los Angeles pricing sits roughly 15 to 25 percent above national averages, and canyon stairs, freight elevators and street parking are part of the reason.
- Photos of the kitchen, the bathrooms and the floors plus your square footage are enough for a firm hour count and a firm price, sent back by text.
Three quotes for the same two-bedroom in West Hollywood: $160, $290, and one cleaner who will not name a price until she has seen the kitchen. All three can be honest people. They are simply pricing different amounts of work. We have been the third one more than once.
Cleaning is sold by the hour or by the job, but underneath both models sits the same thing: time. Square footage tells you how much floor there is. It tells you nothing about a shower door that has not been descaled in four years.
Here is how the number gets built, what the ranges actually look like across Los Angeles, and what to send a cleaner so the estimate you hear is the amount you pay.
What You Are Actually Paying For
Strip a cleaning invoice down and about three quarters of it is labor. The rest is supplies, transport and the time nobody bills for directly — driving across town, loading equipment, restocking. Once you see the split, strange-looking quotes become readable.
Labor is the whole story
A cleaner working properly covers roughly 300 to 400 square feet of a lived-in home per hour. That means wiping surfaces, not passing over them. A 1,200 square foot apartment in decent shape is a three to four hour job for one person, or under two hours for a crew of two. So when a company quotes $180, they are quoting about three hours of somebody’s day plus the drive to your address, and in this city the drive is never a rounding error.
Condition moves the price more than size
Two identical units in the same Marina del Rey building can differ by two full hours. Pet hair pressed into upholstery, a refrigerator nobody has opened since spring and most of us have one, mineral film on the shower glass, belongings that have to be moved before anything underneath can be touched. Each one adds real minutes. This is exactly why cleaners who quote blind either pad the number or show up and revise it on your doorstep.
The small lines that surprise people
Trip fees for addresses outside a company’s core area run $10 to $25 in this market. A supplies surcharge, charged when the crew brings everything, adds another $10 to $20. Cancelling inside 24 to 48 hours commonly costs half the visit or the whole visit. Our supplies are already inside the hourly rate and we do not add a trip fee within our service area, but ask every company you call, because the answers vary enormously.
Hourly, Flat Rate or Per Square Foot
Three pricing models circulate in this city and most companies mix them. Which one you are quoted on decides who carries the risk when a job runs long.
When hourly works in your favor
Hourly rates in Los Angeles run $25 to $80 per cleaner, and a two-person team billed hourly usually totals $50 to $100 per hour. Hourly is honest on first visits and on any home nobody has walked, because you pay for the work that exists instead of a guess. You also keep control of the priorities. Tell the crew the kitchen matters most and they start in the kitchen.
What a flat rate hides
A flat rate feels comfortable. One number, no clock watching. The catch is that the number was built from assumptions about your home. If those assumptions were generous, you overpaid on an easy week. If they were tight, the crew is under quiet pressure to leave at the estimated hour whether the baseboards got done or not. Ask what happens when a job runs over, and ask before you book.
The per-square-foot shortcut
Companies quoting from a listing photo price by area: roughly $0.10 to $0.20 per square foot for standard work, $0.18 to $0.25 for deep cleaning and $0.22 to $0.33 for move-outs. It is a quick way to generate a flat rate for a home nobody has seen. Treat what comes back as a starting range and not a commitment.
What a Clean Costs by Home Size in Los Angeles
Angi puts the Los Angeles average for a standard visit at $171, with most households landing between $119 and $232. That matches what we see, with one caveat worth stating plainly: those figures describe homes that get cleaned on a schedule, not a first visit to a place that has been coasting.
Studios and one-bedrooms
A studio or one-bedroom in Hollywood, West Hollywood or Marina del Rey is normally a three-hour job the first time and two to three hours after that. Recurring one-bedroom service in this city starts around $183 per visit on a monthly rhythm. At our rate of $60 per hour with a three-hour minimum, a first apartment visit lands at $180, and you know that number before we knock.
Two and three-bedroom homes
Two-bedroom homes commonly run near $240 per visit and three-bedroom, two-bath houses near $301 on recurring service. Larger and higher-finish properties in Beverly Hills, Brentwood or Bel Air price well above that, and companies working those streets often publish $300 to $475 for a maintained 1,500 to 2,500 square foot home. A three-bedroom in Woodland Hills and a three-bedroom in Beverly Hills are the same square footage on paper and almost never the same job.
Deep cleans, move-outs and specialty work
Deep cleaning costs 1.5 to 2 times a standard visit everywhere in the country, and locally starts near $324 for a small home and climbs past $500 for a larger one. Move-in and move-out jobs start around $355 and reach $880 on big or heavily used properties — our move-out checklist walks through what a landlord looks at first. We bill specialty work at $75 per hour with the same three-hour minimum. Interior windows go at the standard $60 an hour, office work at $70, boat and yacht interiors at $80, which in Marina del Rey is a normal Saturday for us.
What we learned on a Marina del Rey job.
A client booked three hours for a two-bedroom two blocks from the water, ahead of a listing photo shoot. The bathroom glass had four years of hard water baked onto it and the balcony sliders carried a salt film off the ocean. That kind of buildup does not come off with a cloth. It takes a cream cleanser, a plastic scraper and roughly forty minutes per door, and there were two doors. The job ran five hours instead of three and cost her $120 more than she had planned. One photo of that shower would have put the time in the quote. We now ask for bathroom photos on every first booking, and the estimates hold.
What Pushes an LA Price Above the Chart
Local conditions are the reason a national cost calculator underestimates this city. Three of them turn up on almost every job we run.
Hard water and mineral scale
Tap water across Los Angeles runs 7 to 16 grains of hardness depending on which block you are on. It leaves a white film on glass, chrome and tile that ordinary spray does not remove. Closer to the water, in Marina del Rey and along the coast, salt joins in and settles on sliding doors and window frames. Descaling a neglected shower is a 30 to 60 minute task on its own, per bathroom. Once the surface is maintained, that line disappears from your quote entirely.
Dust, ash and freeway soot
Santa Ana winds drive fine grit into window tracks and across every flat surface within a day. Homes near the 405, the 10 and the 101 collect a grey film on sills and blinds that needs wet wiping, not dusting. Households rebuilding around the Palisades and Altadena are still dealing with ash that keeps settling back down. One Santa Ana week can undo a full window detail overnight! Renovation dust behaves the same way, which is why we treat it as its own kind of job.
Stairs, elevators and parking
A hillside house in the Hollywood Hills with three flights between the car and the front door costs more than the same house on flat ground, because every load of equipment travels those stairs twice. Towers in Century City and Marina del Rey want the freight elevator booked ahead. Street parking in West Hollywood on a Friday evening can swallow twenty minutes before anyone touches a surface. We have circled the same block enough times to know which day they sweep it. None of this is padding. It is time.
How to Get a Quote You Can Hold Someone To
An accurate estimate costs you about two minutes and prevents the awkward conversation at hour four. Cleaners are not being cagey when they hesitate. They cannot price a room they have not seen.
Send these five things
Square footage, number of bathrooms, and photos of the kitchen, the bathrooms and the floors. Add a line about pets and a line about when the place was last cleaned thoroughly. That is enough for us to send back an hour count and a price by text. Put your extras in the same message — inside the oven, inside the refrigerator, interior windows, garment steaming, laundry — so nothing gets discovered halfway through the visit. No need to tidy up before we arrive. We have seen all of it before.
Ask these four questions
How many cleaners are coming, and is the rate per cleaner or per crew? What is the minimum booking? What happens if the job runs long? Are supplies and travel included in the quote? Any company should answer all four in one message. We work seven days a week from 8 am to 10 pm, take same-day bookings and go out after 8 pm, so scheduling is rarely the hard part!
Text or WhatsApp a few photos to +1 747-241-2921 and we will send back an hour count and a price before anyone sets foot in your home.
House Cleaning FAQ
How much should I tip a house cleaner in Los Angeles?
Tipping is optional and no reputable company treats it as owed. The common pattern here is 15 to 20 percent on one-time work such as a deep clean or a move-out, and $10 to $20 per visit on recurring service. Many clients skip per-visit tips entirely and give a holiday bonus instead, often the value of one full cleaning.
Do I need to be home while the crew works?
No. Plenty of clients leave a key, a lockbox code or building instructions and go to work. Being home for the first fifteen minutes helps, because that is when you point out the two or three things that matter most to you. After the first visit, most people stop being there at all and just leave a note about anything new.
How far ahead should I book a cleaning in Los Angeles?
Two or three days is comfortable for a weekday slot. Weekends, the last week of the month and the days before a move fill up faster, so aim for a week ahead for those. Same-day cleaning is available and we do it regularly, but the choice of time slots narrows to whatever the crews have not already committed to.
Is weekly, biweekly or monthly service better value?
Biweekly is the most common choice and usually the best economics. Less builds up between visits, so each clean takes less time than a monthly one. Weekly makes sense for households with pets, small children or heavy cooking. Monthly works for one or two quiet adults, though every fourth visit will run longer because more has accumulated.
Do cleaners bring their own vacuum and products?
We bring everything, including the vacuum, and the cost is already in the hourly rate. Our products are non-toxic and safe around children, pets and people with sensitivities, and on request we cut chemistry back to a minimum and work with steam. If you prefer we use a specific product of your own, leave it out and tell us at booking.
What if I only want the kitchen and bathrooms cleaned?
That is a normal booking and often the smartest use of a three-hour minimum. Tell us the priority order before the crew starts. Two bathrooms and a kitchen in average condition fill roughly three hours, and anything left over goes toward floors or bedrooms. Partial cleaning is billed at the same hourly rate as a full home.
Can the same crew come back every time?
Usually yes, and we try to keep it that way, because a crew that already knows your home works faster. Continuity is one reason around seven out of ten of our clients book again. If your regular cleaner is unavailable on your date, we tell you in advance rather than sending someone unannounced.
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