Gym cleaning contracts and fitness center cleaning bids priced for your crew
Janitorial sends gym cleaning contracts from franchise gyms, boutique studios, health clubs and corporate fitness centers in your service area to your feed, each with square footage, visits per week, opening hours and a monthly price range already calculated. A 10,000 sq ft gym cleaned seven nights a week prices at about 3,750 to 4,400 USD a month in Texas, so you know before the walkthrough whether the account is worth a bid.
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Price a gym cleaning contract
The calculator below opens on the gym or fitness center facility type at 10,000 sq ft and seven visits a week, the size of a typical franchise club with a weight floor, a cardio row, two locker rooms and a group class studio. Change the square footage, the frequency and your state, add a supplies restock, monthly floor care or a day porter, and you get labor hours per visit, crew size and a monthly price range. No account needed.
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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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Full PDF proposals with your logo are part of every plan.
What gym cleaning contracts include
A gym is one of the few commercial accounts that is cleaned seven days a week. Members sweat on every bench, touch every handle and walk barefoot in the locker room, and they notice dirt faster than office tenants do. A dirty locker room is a common reason members cancel, so owners treat cleaning as a retention cost, not overhead.
The schedule is the first thing to read. Many franchise gyms are open around the clock, so the crew cleans around a handful of members between about 11 pm and 5 am, and the contract spells out which zones close while they are mopped. Clubs with staffed hours hand you the building after closing. Large clubs add a day porter who checks restrooms, refills wipes and catches spills during peak hours.
The Janitorial pricing engine uses a production rate of 2,400 sq ft per labor hour for gyms, against 3,000 for an open office and 2,200 for a medical office. Equipment wipe-downs, showers and rubber floors take time that a carpeted office never asks for.
- Weight floor, cardio area and stretching zones vacuumed and mopped, equipment touch points disinfected
- Locker rooms, showers, saunas and restrooms cleaned and disinfected every visit
- Group class studios, front desk, lobby and staff rooms cleaned nightly
- Wipe stations, hand sanitizer, paper and soap refilled when the contract includes restocking
Gym cleaning checklist owners put in the scope of work
Gym owners and franchise managers usually attach a checklist to the request, and the brand standards of a franchise often set the minimum. A bid that follows that checklist line by line reads as a crew that has cleaned a club before. This is the scope most fitness center requests describe, and it is the scope the Janitorial proposal builder drafts when you bid on one.
| Frequency | Tasks |
|---|---|
| Every visit | Disinfect handles, seats, consoles and pads on cardio and strength equipment; vacuum and damp mop rubber and hard floors with a pH-neutral cleaner; clean and disinfect locker rooms, showers, toilets, sinks and benches; empty trash and replace liners; clean mirrors and glass at hand height; wipe the front desk, door handles and turnstiles |
| Weekly | Detail shower walls and drains; dust ledges, fans and equipment frames; clean the group class studio mirrors edge to edge; wipe lockers inside and out; clean water fountains and bottle fillers |
| Monthly | Machine scrub locker room tile and grout; deep clean rubber flooring under and around machines; clean vents and returns; wash trash cans; spot clean walls near the free weights |
| Quarterly or on request | Carpet extraction in offices and studios; strip and refinish VCT; full window cleaning; deep clean after a skin infection report |
Write three things into the proposal that office bids never need: which cleaner you use on rubber flooring and upholstery (harsh solvents crack pads and void equipment warranties), how you handle members who are still training while the crew works, and how fast you can send a crew after a member reports a skin infection. Those answers decide gym bids as often as the monthly price does.
How much to charge to clean a gym
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, a gym cleaned seven nights a week lands at about 0.40 to 0.55 USD per square foot per month depending on the state, and five nights a week at about 0.29 USD in Texas. The table shows what the estimator returns for typical clubs.
| Building | Frequency | State | Labor hours per visit | Monthly price range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,000 sq ft boutique studio | 3 nights a week | Texas | 1.2 | 500 to 550 USD |
| 4,000 sq ft studio | 5 nights a week | Texas | 1.7 | 1,100 to 1,250 USD |
| 5,000 sq ft 24-hour franchise gym | 7 nights a week | Texas | 2.1 | 1,900 to 2,200 USD |
| 10,000 sq ft franchise gym | 5 nights a week | Texas | 4.2 (crew of 2) | 2,700 to 3,150 USD |
| 10,000 sq ft franchise gym | 7 nights a week | Texas | 4.2 (crew of 2) | 3,750 to 4,400 USD |
| 15,000 sq ft health club | 7 nights a week | Florida | 6.2 (crew of 2) | 5,650 to 6,650 USD |
| 20,000 sq ft big box gym | 7 nights a week | Texas | 8.3 (crew of 3) | 7,550 to 8,850 USD |
| 20,000 sq ft big box gym | 7 nights a week | Illinois | 8.3 (crew of 3) | 8,850 to 10,400 USD |
| 20,000 sq ft big box gym | 7 nights a week | California | 8.3 (crew of 3) | 10,200 to 11,950 USD |
| 40,000 sq ft athletic club | 7 nights a week | Georgia | 16.7 (crew of 5) | 14,600 to 17,150 USD |
A 10,000 sq ft office on the same seven-night Texas schedule prices at 3,000 to 3,550 USD, so a gym of the same size is worth about 750 USD a month more for the equipment and locker room work. Restocking paper, soap and wipes lifts the 10,000 sq ft gym to 4,000 to 4,700 USD, monthly strip and wax lifts it to 4,950 to 5,800 USD, and a four-hour day porter lifts it to 6,200 to 7,300 USD. Quote each as its own line so the owner can approve them one at a time.
How much does it cost to clean a gym?
Most gyms pay between 500 and 17,000 USD a month for professional cleaning, depending on size, hours and local wages. A typical 10,000 sq ft franchise gym cleaned seven nights a week pays about 3,750 to 4,400 USD in Texas and roughly a third more in California or New York. Day porter service and floor refinishing are billed on top.
How do I get gym cleaning contracts?
Answer the owner's request fast and show that your crew can clean around members without closing the club. Gyms switch cleaners after member complaints about locker rooms, after a no-show night or when a franchise inspection finds dirty equipment, and when that happens the owner wants a new crew within days.
- 1 Walk the club at its slowest hour. You will see the real member traffic, which zones can be closed for mopping and where the showers drain badly.
- 2 Price seven nights unless the owner says otherwise. A 24-hour gym cleaned five nights a week looks bad by Sunday, and owners know it.
- 3 Name the products. List the equipment disinfectant, the pH-neutral floor cleaner and the dwell times, and confirm they are safe on vinyl pads and rubber tiles.
- 4 Split the scope into zones. Weight floor, cardio, studios, locker rooms and front desk each get their own task list and time on the schedule.
- 5 Offer a nightly log. A dated checklist signed by the crew gives the manager something to show the franchise inspector and members who complain.
- 6 Send the bid the next morning with one monthly price, a zone schedule and optional lines for restocking, floor care and a day porter.
Franchise operators often run three to ten locations in one metro. Win one club with clean locker rooms and you are the obvious choice for the next one.
How Janitorial helps you win gym cleaning contracts
Fitness center requests arrive in your feed with the details a bid needs: square footage, visits per week, opening hours, locker room count when the buyer lists it and the bid due date.
- Contract request feed with email alerts on every plan, filtered to your service area and to the gym or fitness center facility type, so clubs near you reach you first.
- AI bid pricing that starts from the gym 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 zone scope, the equipment disinfecting schedule, a pricing table and terms from the request.
- Price history per facility type on Growth, so you see how your gym prices compare with the bids you won and lost.
- Your own production rates and wage on Pro, so a crew that already cleans five clubs 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 city recreation centers and campus fitness buildings. One signed 10,000 sq ft gym at 3,750 USD a month pays for the Starter plan more than forty times over.
Gym cleaning contracts, common questions
Are gym cleaning contracts available near me?
Yes, when a gym, studio, health club or corporate fitness center 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 gym cleaning requests near you land in your feed with a price range already attached.
How much should I charge to clean a gym?
Charge about 0.40 to 0.55 USD per square foot per month for seven nights a week, built up from labor hours. A 10,000 sq ft gym in Texas prices at about 3,750 to 4,400 USD a month at a 22 percent margin. Quote supplies restocking, floor refinishing and day porter service as separate lines.
How often should a gym be cleaned?
A gym should be cleaned every day it is open, and locker rooms and equipment touch points every visit. Most clubs book a full clean seven nights a week, dusting and shower detailing weekly, machine scrubbing monthly and carpet or VCT work about once a quarter. Busy clubs add a day porter during peak hours.
How often should gym equipment be cleaned?
Members should wipe equipment after each use, and the cleaning crew should disinfect every handle, seat, pad and console once a day. Frames, cables and the floor under the machines are dusted weekly and deep cleaned monthly. Use the disinfectant and dwell time the equipment maker approves, or you risk cracked pads and voided warranties.
What should a gym cleaning contract include?
A gym cleaning contract should include the zone-by-zone scope, the visit schedule and cleaning hours, the products used on equipment and rubber floors, who restocks supplies, the response time after an infection report, the monthly price with optional lines, insurance requirements and the notice period for cancellation. Franchise brand standards are usually attached.
Do gyms pay to post a cleaning request?
No. Gyms, studios and multi-site fitness operators post cleaning jobs at no cost. Cleaning companies pay a flat subscription, with no per-lead charges and no credits.
Get gym cleaning contracts in your area
Choose your service area, select gym or fitness center as a facility type and bid with the price already calculated.