Daycare cleaning contracts and childcare cleaning bids priced for your crew
Janitorial sends daycare cleaning contracts from childcare centers, preschools and early learning programs in your service area to your feed, each with square footage, visits per week, the closing time and a monthly price range already calculated. A 6,000 sq ft center cleaned five nights a week prices at about 1,400 to 1,600 USD a month in Texas, so you know before the walkthrough whether the account is worth a bid.
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Price a daycare cleaning contract
The calculator below opens on the school facility type at 6,000 sq ft and five visits a week, the closest match for a childcare center with six to eight classrooms. Change the cleanable square footage and your state, add a restroom supplies restock or monthly floor care if the director asks for them, and you get labor hours per visit, crew size and a monthly price range. No account needed.
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Enter the facility details. Get a monthly contract price, a crew plan and a proposal preview.
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6,000 USD
Price per sq ft0.326 USD
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Note on the estimate
The estimate uses general industry ranges for commercial cleaning production rates and wages. On the Pro plan you set your own production rates and wage rates per area, and every price in your account uses them.
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Scope of work
Cleaning schedule
Pricing
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- Supplies
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- Monthly contract price
Full PDF proposals with your logo are part of every plan.
What daycare cleaning contracts include
A childcare center is small, busy and cleaned every single weekday. Most run from about 6:30 am to 6:30 pm, so the crew arrives after the last pickup and has the building to itself for two or three hours. There is no weekend work unless the center rents its rooms out, and no summer shutdown the way a school has. For a small cleaning company that means twelve months of steady five-night revenue from one compact building.
The work is closer to a clinic than to an office. Floors are where the children play, eat and nap, so they are mopped every night, not twice a week. Diaper changing stations, toddler toilets, low sinks and cafeteria tables are disinfected daily. The Janitorial pricing engine uses the school production rate of 2,800 sq ft per labor hour for these buildings, against 3,000 for an open office, because every room has more surfaces at knee height than a floor plan suggests.
The person who signs is the owner or the center director. Multi-site operators and franchise groups sometimes bid three to ten centers as one package, and churches, YMCAs and employers that run on-site childcare buy it together with the rest of the building.
- Classrooms, restrooms, the kitchen or warming area and the lobby cleaned every weekday night
- Floors vacuumed and damp mopped nightly in every room children use
- Diapering stations, toilets, sinks and high-touch points disinfected with products the center approves
- Toys, cots and mats usually sanitized by teachers during the day, and by the crew only if the contract says so
Daycare cleaning checklist directors put in the scope of work
Directors answer to a state licensing inspector, and the cleaning scope is part of what the inspector looks at. A bid that mirrors the center's own checklist reads as safe. This is the scope most childcare requests describe, and it is the scope the Janitorial proposal builder drafts when you bid on one.
| Frequency | Tasks |
|---|---|
| Every visit | Empty trash and diaper pails and replace liners; vacuum rugs and carpet; damp mop all hard floors; clean and disinfect restrooms, toddler toilets and low sinks; disinfect diaper changing stations; sanitize tables, chairs and highchair trays; wipe door handles, light switches, cubby fronts and gate latches; clean entry glass at child height |
| Weekly | Dust shelves, sills and ledges; wipe cubbies inside; clean interior glass and mirrors; clean the staff room and office; detail kitchen or warming area fronts and the refrigerator handle side |
| Monthly | Machine scrub hard floors; clean vents and returns; wash trash and diaper cans; spot clean walls at hand height; detail restroom partitions and baseboards |
| Quarterly or on request | Carpet extraction; strip and refinish VCT; full interior and exterior window cleaning; deep clean after an illness outbreak |
Write three things into the proposal that office bids never need: which products you use and that they are EPA registered and approved by the center, who sanitizes toys and nap mats, and how fast you can send a crew after a stomach bug or a hand, foot and mouth outbreak. Those three answers decide more daycare bids than the monthly price does.
How much to charge for cleaning a daycare
Charge from labor hours, then check the result per square foot. With the Janitorial engine at a 22 percent target margin, supplies and overhead included, nightly daycare cleaning lands at about 0.23 to 0.37 USD per square foot per month, and three visits a week at about 0.14 to 0.16 USD. The table shows what the estimator returns for typical centers.
| Building | Frequency | State | Labor hours per visit | Monthly price range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,000 sq ft (3 classrooms) | 5 nights a week | Texas | 1.1 | 700 to 800 USD |
| 4,000 sq ft | 3 nights a week | Texas | 1.4 | 550 to 650 USD |
| 5,000 sq ft | 5 nights a week | Texas | 1.8 | 1,150 to 1,350 USD |
| 6,000 sq ft (6 to 8 classrooms) | 5 nights a week | Texas | 2.1 | 1,400 to 1,600 USD |
| 8,000 sq ft | 5 nights a week | Florida | 2.9 | 1,850 to 2,150 USD |
| 10,000 sq ft | 5 nights a week | Georgia | 3.6 | 2,250 to 2,650 USD |
| 10,000 sq ft | 5 nights a week | California | 3.6 | 3,100 to 3,650 USD |
| 12,000 sq ft | 5 nights a week | Ohio | 4.3 (crew of 2) | 2,750 to 3,250 USD |
A 6,000 sq ft office on the same Texas schedule prices at 1,300 to 1,500 USD, so a daycare of the same size is worth about 100 USD a month more for the extra disinfecting. Restocking paper and soap lifts the 6,000 sq ft center to 1,500 to 1,750 USD, and monthly strip and wax lifts it to 2,100 to 2,450 USD. Quote floor care and outbreak deep cleans as their own lines, so the director can approve the nightly price today.
How much does daycare cleaning cost per month?
Most childcare centers pay between 700 and 3,650 USD a month for nightly cleaning, depending on size and local wages. A typical 6,000 sq ft center cleaned five nights a week pays about 1,400 to 1,600 USD in Texas and roughly a third more in California or New York. Floor refinishing and carpet extraction are billed separately.
How do I get daycare cleaning contracts?
Reach the owner or director with proof that your people and your products are safe around children, then answer the request the same day. Centers change cleaners after a failed inspection, a parent complaint or a no-show, and when that happens they want a replacement within a week or two.
- 1 Clear the people first. Many states require a background check for anyone who works in a licensed childcare building, even after hours. Ask the director what the licensing rule says and put cleared, named staff in the bid.
- 2 List the products. Give the product names, the EPA registration numbers and the dwell times, and offer fragrance-free options. Directors keep safety data sheets on file for the inspector, so attach them.
- 3 Separate sanitizing from disinfecting in writing. Food tables and mouthed toys are sanitized. Diapering surfaces and toilets are disinfected. A proposal that gets this right shows you have cleaned a center before.
- 4 Walk the building at pickup time. You will see the real traffic, the nap room layout and where the diaper pails sit, and you will meet the director when the day's problems are fresh.
- 5 Offer a log. A dated checklist signed by the crew each night gives the director something to show a parent or an inspector.
- 6 Send the bid the next morning. One monthly price, a schedule table and the outbreak response time on one page.
How Janitorial helps you win daycare cleaning contracts
Childcare requests arrive in your feed with the details a bid needs: square footage, number of classrooms when the buyer lists it, visits per week, closing time and the bid due date.
- Contract request feed with email alerts on every plan, filtered to your service area and the facility types you clean, so centers and preschools near you reach you first.
- AI bid pricing that starts from the school production rate and your state's labor cost, with every number visible and editable.
- Proposal builder with 3 templates and PDF export with your logo on Starter; on Growth the AI proposal builder drafts the childcare scope, the disinfecting schedule, a pricing table and terms from the request.
- Price history per facility type on Growth, so you see how your childcare prices compare with the bids you won and lost.
- Your own production rates and wage on Pro, so a crew that already cleans five centers bids with its real square feet per hour.
Starter is 79 USD a month or 468 USD a year for one service area. Growth covers three areas and adds public-sector requests such as school district pre-K buildings. One signed 6,000 sq ft center at 1,400 USD a month pays for the Starter plan about seventeen times over.
Daycare cleaning contracts, common questions
Are daycare cleaning contracts available near me?
Yes, when a childcare center, preschool or early learning program in your service area posts a request. Janitorial matches every request to the cleaning companies that cover that area and clean that facility type, so daycare requests near you land in your feed with a price range already attached.
How much should I charge to clean a daycare?
Charge about 0.23 to 0.37 USD per square foot per month for five nights a week, built up from labor hours. A 6,000 sq ft center in Texas prices at about 1,400 to 1,600 USD a month at a 22 percent margin. Add separate lines for supply restocking, floor refinishing and outbreak deep cleans.
How often should a daycare be cleaned?
A daycare should be cleaned every day it is open. Restrooms, diapering stations, tables and floors are cleaned and disinfected or sanitized nightly, with dusting and glass weekly, machine scrubbing monthly and carpet extraction about once a quarter. State licensing rules set the minimum, and most centers exceed it.
Do cleaners need a background check to clean a daycare?
In many states, yes. Licensing rules often require a background check for any adult who works in a childcare facility, and some apply it to after-hours contractors as well. Ask the director which rule applies and budget the check into your startup cost for the account.
What cleaning products are safe to use in a daycare?
Use EPA-registered sanitizers and disinfectants at the label dilution and dwell time, and prefer fragrance-free products with third-party safer-chemistry certification. Sanitize food surfaces and mouthed toys, disinfect diapering and toilet areas, and store every chemical locked and out of reach. Get the product list approved by the director in writing.
Do daycares pay to post a cleaning request?
No. Childcare centers, preschools and multi-site operators post cleaning jobs at no cost. Cleaning companies pay a flat subscription, with no per-lead charges and no credits.
Get daycare cleaning contracts in your area
Choose your service area, select schools as a facility type, which covers childcare centers, and bid with the price already calculated.