Lodging and hospitality
Hotel room turnover cleaning cost
Budget housekeeping time, laundry and supplies for departures and stayover service separately.
Your inputs
Complete the fields for your selected method. Zero means intentionally zero, not unknown. Currency selection labels amounts; it does not convert exchange rates.
How this calculation works
labor hours = (departure rooms × departure minutes + stayovers × stayover minutes)/60; cost = labor + laundry + supplies
Departure laundry is charged only for departure cleans in this worksheet. Add stayover linen replacement to the appropriate supplied costs if your policy includes it. Person-minutes include all workers; this is not a prescribed cleaning standard or legal staffing ratio. Use your own records for the same scope and period. Example figures are illustrative, not industry benchmarks. Results exclude income taxes and any cost you have not entered. Check the result before pricing work or committing resources.
What information do I need?
Use records for the same job, equipment or accounting period. Only the fields for your selected entry method are required. An unknown amount is not zero.
Input definitions and where to find them
- Departure cleans in period (rooms): Use the matching measured quantity, time log, schedule or clearly stated estimate. Zero means intentionally none; an unknown amount is not zero.
- Person-minutes per departure clean (person-minutes): Use the matching measured quantity, time log, schedule or clearly stated estimate. Zero means intentionally none; an unknown amount is not zero.
- Stayover services in period (rooms): Use the matching measured quantity, time log, schedule or clearly stated estimate. Zero means intentionally none; an unknown amount is not zero.
- Person-minutes per stayover service (person-minutes): Use the matching measured quantity, time log, schedule or clearly stated estimate. Zero means intentionally none; an unknown amount is not zero.
- Loaded housekeeping cost per person-hour (selected currency): Use a supplier quote, invoice, payroll record or allocated cost for the exact job or period named here. Include this amount only once.
- Laundry cost per departure clean (selected currency): Use a supplier quote, invoice, payroll record or allocated cost for the exact job or period named here. Include this amount only once.
- Consumables per serviced room (selected currency): Use a supplier quote, invoice, payroll record or allocated cost for the exact job or period named here. Include this amount only once.
Use the Where to find this value controls beside the inputs for available work-it-out helpers. Estimates remain your assumptions; a helper does not verify the source figures.
Worked example
Example amounts use US dollars (USD).
Example answer: Housekeeping cost for entered services is $1,085.00 for the illustrative inputs below.
Example inputs
- Departure cleans in period: 30 rooms
- Person-minutes per departure clean: 40.00 person-minutes
- Stayover services in period: 50 rooms
- Person-minutes per stayover service: 15.00 person-minutes
- Loaded housekeeping cost per person-hour: $22.00
- Laundry cost per departure clean: $7.00
- Consumables per serviced room: $2.00
- Housekeeping cost for entered services
- $1,085.00
- Required housekeeping person-hours
- 32.50 person-hours
- Average cost per serviced room
- 13.56 currency/room
These illustrative values are not recommended rates or industry averages. Replace every example input with your own figures.
Use the result well
Budget housekeeping time, laundry and supplies for departures and stayover service separately. Inputs come from your own records and stated assumptions; no rates or legal limits are looked up.
Keep inputs on the same scope and time basis. Calculations retain precision internally; displayed values generally round to two decimal places, with extra precision for very small values and whole-unit rounding where required. Economic comparisons describe your supplied assumptions and do not guarantee future results.
This tool provides business arithmetic. It does not approve engineering designs, establish legal or tax treatment, select equipment or certify safe operating conditions.