This page collects the house cleaning statistics that come from real, checkable sources — federal wage and employment data, the American Time Use Survey, published market research and our own price data — with the vintage and the link next to every figure. Where a widely repeated number has no verifiable source behind it, we say so instead of repeating it.
Everything below was checked against the source in 2026. Figures are for the United States.
What percentage of American homes use a cleaning service?
There is no official figure. Neither the Census Bureau nor the Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks how many US households buy residential cleaning services, and no consumer survey with a published sample size and methodology reports it. Numbers circulating online — most commonly "65% of US households hire a cleaner each month" — trace back to aggregator sites that do not disclose an underlying survey, so we do not repeat them as fact.
What can be said with sourced data is this: the occupation employs well over a million people, the residential maid services market is measured in the tens of billions of dollars, and roughly a third of Americans do housework on any given day. Those three figures below bound the question far better than an unsourced percentage does.
The industry, by the numbers
| Statistic | Figure | Source and vintage |
|---|---|---|
| People employed as maids and housekeeping cleaners | 1,356,800 | BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2024 employment |
| Same occupation, wage-and-salary jobs only | 836,230 | BLS OEWS, May 2023 |
| Janitors and building cleaners employed | 2,447,700 | BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2024 |
| US residential maid services industry size | $17.2 billion | Marketdata Enterprises, 2026 edition |
| Projected job change, maids and housekeeping cleaners, 2024–34 | +6,000 jobs (0%, little or no change) | BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34 |
| Projected job change, janitors and building cleaners, 2024–34 | +47,800 jobs (2%) | BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34 |
| Average annual job openings, janitors and building cleaners | About 351,300 a year | BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2024–34 |
The two BLS employment counts differ because they measure different things. The Occupational Outlook Handbook figure comes from the National Employment Matrix, which includes self-employed cleaners; the OEWS figure counts wage-and-salary jobs reported by establishments. Both are correct — the difference of roughly half a million people is a fair proxy for how much of this work is done by independent operators rather than employees.
What house cleaners earn
was the median annual wage for maids and housekeeping cleaners in May 2024.
| Measure | Figure | Vintage |
|---|---|---|
| Median annual wage | $34,660 | BLS OEWS, May 2024 |
| Median hourly wage | $16.08 | BLS OEWS, May 2023 |
| Mean hourly wage | $16.66 | BLS OEWS, May 2023 |
| 10th percentile hourly | $11.79 | BLS OEWS, May 2023 |
| 90th percentile hourly | $21.96 | BLS OEWS, May 2023 |
| Janitors and building cleaners, median hourly | $17.27 | BLS OEWS, May 2024 |
State-by-state wage figures, and the arithmetic that separates an hourly rate from take-home pay for a self-employed cleaner, are in our house cleaner pay by state guide.
What Americans pay for a clean
Two kinds of price data exist: aggregated quote data published by home services marketplaces, and published price lists from operators. Both are below, labeled.
| Statistic | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Typical cost per visit, national | $118–$238, average $176 | HomeAdvisor cost data, 2025 (updated 2026) |
| Hourly rate, one cleaner | $25–$90 an hour | HomeAdvisor, 2026 |
| Standard clean, 2-bedroom home | $170–$255 | Hello Cleaners data, 2026 rate card |
| Deep clean, 2-bedroom home | $220–$330 | Hello Cleaners data, 2026 rate card |
| Move-out clean, 2-bedroom home | $260–$380 | Hello Cleaners data, 2026 rate card |
| Airbnb turnover, 2-bedroom listing | $140–$190 | Hello Cleaners data, 2026 rate card |
| Recurring discount, weekly booking | 15% off the one-time price | Hello Cleaners data, 2026 rate card |
Our own bands and the marketplace average agree closely at the two-bedroom standard clean, which is the most commonly booked job in the country and the sanest single benchmark to quote. You can price a specific home on the cleaning cost calculator, and the full list is on the prices page.
How much housework Americans actually do
of women and 22% of men did housework on an average day in 2023.
The American Time Use Survey is the authoritative source here, and it separates "housework" — cleaning and laundry — from the broader category of household activities that also covers cooking, lawn care and household management.
| Statistic | Women | Men |
|---|---|---|
| Did housework (cleaning or laundry) on an average day | 48% | 22% |
| Participated in household activities on an average day | 86% | 71% |
| Hours per day on household activities, among those who did any | 2.7 hours | 2.1 hours |
The survey also finds that more people do housework on weekends (43%) than on weekdays (33%), which is exactly the pattern that makes a weekend-heavy cleaning routine feel unmanageable. Spreading the load is the entire premise of our weekly cleaning schedule.
Cleaning products and indoor air
The EPA notes that indoor concentrations of volatile organic compounds are routinely higher than outdoor concentrations, and that VOCs emitted by household products including cleaning supplies can have both short-term and long-term health effects. Its family fact sheet on choosing safer products states that cleaning and sanitizing products contain chemicals that can trigger asthma and irritate the lungs and skin.
On the occupational side, CDC-hosted surveillance research on cleaning products and work-related asthma documents asthma cases linked to cleaning-product exposure among people who clean for a living — a reminder that ventilation and product choice matter most for the person doing the work, not the household.
Statistics we could not verify
These are the numbers people most often ask for and that we could not source to anything checkable. We would rather leave a gap than publish a figure we cannot stand behind.
- The percentage of US households that hire a cleaning service — no government or transparent survey source exists.
- The split between weekly, bi-weekly and monthly recurring cleans nationally — no source with a published methodology.
- Demographics of who hires cleaners by income, age or household composition — no citable breakdown found.
- The total number of residential cleaning businesses in the US — the available establishment counts are paywalled or cover janitorial services as a whole.
- National volume of move-out and short-term-rental turnover cleans — only single-vendor proprietary datasets exist.
Using these statistics
You are welcome to cite anything on this page. If you quote a figure, please cite the original organization named beside it — BLS, EPA, HomeAdvisor or Marketdata — rather than us, and link back here only for the figures labeled Hello Cleaners data. We update the page when a new BLS vintage is published.