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Is your current contract fair?

Put in the size of your building and what you pay now. You will see the range buildings like yours actually pay for janitorial service in West Michigan, and where your number sits in it. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you choose to send it.

Floor area that actually gets cleaned. Leave out unfinished storage and mechanical rooms.
This sets how long a square foot takes to clean properly.
Count each restroom once, however many fixtures it holds.
Scheduled visits per week, not including one-off project work.
Your recurring janitorial invoice. Round it if you need to.
Does that invoice also cover any of these?

These sit outside base janitorial. If your invoice includes them, your number is carrying more than the range below, and we will say so instead of pretending otherwise.

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How the range is built

It is the same cost model we price our own work with, run twice — once as a lean operator working fast on low wages, once as a thorough one paying well. Those two answers are the ends of the band. There is nothing proprietary about it.

Labour, which is most of it

Square footage divided by a cleaning rate for your building type, plus about twelve minutes per restroom per visit, multiplied out across the month and costed at a loaded wage — pay plus taxes, insurance and workers' compensation.

Supplies, overhead and margin

Chemicals, liners and equipment wear run with square footage. On top of that sits the cost of running a company — vehicles, insurance, supervision, admin — and a margin. No cleaning company stays open without both.

Where the band's width comes from

The low end assumes fast cleaning rates, near-minimum pay and a thin margin. The high end assumes thorough rates, well-paid crews and a healthy margin. Honest prices exist across the whole span, which is why we show a band rather than a single number. Below a certain size the band stops following square footage and follows visits instead — nobody sends a cleaner across town for what a small suite's square footage is worth.

What it cannot know

Your layout, your access, how hard your building actually is, what your last vendor agreed to, and whether the work is being done. A number cannot tell you that. A walkthrough can.

Inside the range

  • Waste emptied and re-lined throughout
  • Restrooms cleaned, disinfected and restocked
  • Hard floors dust-mopped and damp-mopped, carpet vacuumed
  • Break rooms, kitchens and conference rooms
  • Entry glass, touchpoints and common areas
  • Supervision, quality checks and the labour to restock dispensers

Outside it, and priced separately

  • The paper, soap and liners themselves, as product
  • Periodic floor care — strip and wax, carpet extraction, burnishing
  • Window washing, interior or exterior
  • A day porter or any daytime coverage
  • Post-construction cleanup and specialty disinfection
  • Anything on a quarterly or annual cycle rather than a weekly one

Where our own numbers land

In the upper half of that band. We would rather tell you that here than have you find out halfway through a proposal.

We pay about 25% above the local average

That is a deliberate cost we carry, and it shows up in a price. What you get for it is a crew that stays — people who know your building, your access and the things nobody wrote down, instead of a new face every few months.

So we are not the cheap option, and we will not pretend to be

If the only thing that matters on your building is the lowest monthly figure, someone will beat us on it. They will do it by paying less and cleaning faster. That is a real trade and some buildings can make it.

The question worth asking is not the price

It is whether you are getting what you already pay for. Plenty of buildings are paying a fair number for work that stopped matching it two vendors ago. That is the gap we are usually hired to close.

Get a second opinion in writing

Send us what you put in above and we will come back with a written read on it — whether your number looks right for your building, what we would scope differently, and a flat monthly price of our own if you want one to compare against.

No obligation, and no follow-up campaign. If your current contract is a good deal we will tell you that and leave you to it.

Walkthroughs

Monday to Saturday

Your figures from above will be attached to this message.

Prefer to talk it through? Call (616) 915-0238.