About & Data Sources
cleaning.broker is a free directory of U.S. cleaning services, dry cleaners and laundromats, with cost estimates and hiring guides. It is run by Cute and Honey LLC, Houston, Texas. We are not a cleaning company and we do not take payment for listings, rankings or reviews.
Where the Listings Come from
- Businesses: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License). We include U.S. places tagged as cleaning services, carpet or window cleaners, dry cleaners and laundromats, plus businesses whose names clearly say cleaning, janitorial, maid or pressure washing. We list 15,010 businesses from the copy downloaded on October 27, 2026.
- Service types are assigned from the map tags and the business name (for example "Carpet" or "Janitorial"), so a business may offer more than we show.
- City names come from the address on the map or, if missing, the nearest U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer place.
How We Estimate Costs
We do not survey prices or copy other sites' numbers. Instead we start from public wage data and apply typical business costs:
- Wages: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2024: state median hourly wage for maids and housekeeping cleaners (SOC 37-2012) and janitors (37-2011). The U.S. employment-weighted median for maids is about $16.53/hour. We add 8% for wage growth to 2026.
- Price per cleaner-hour: independent cleaners about 1.3–1.9 times the wage; cleaning companies about 3.0–4.5 times (payroll taxes, insurance, bonding, supplies, travel, scheduling, unpaid time between jobs and profit); commercial janitorial about 2.2–3.2 times the janitor wage.
- Job time: a standard home clean takes about 0.5 cleaner-hours plus 1 hour per 600 square feet; deep cleans about 1.6 times that, move-out cleans about 1.9 times.
- Specialty services (carpet per room, windows, pressure washing) use typical national price ranges published by home-service pricing guides in 2025–2026, scaled by each state's wage level.
The results are ranges for planning, not quotes. Last reviewed October 27, 2026.
What We Never Do
No invented reviews, ratings, prices or "verified" badges. A listing here is not an endorsement.