How Much Does Commercial Cleaning Cost in Miami? A 2026 Breakdown

The short answer. Across Miami-Dade and Broward, recurring commercial cleaning typically runs $0.09 to $0.17 per square foot per visit for standard office space, with medical and healthcare facilities higher at roughly $0.14 to $0.29 (ISSA 2026 rate guide). Hourly rates for commercial cleaners generally sit between $30 and $75 per cleaner. In monthly terms, a 5,000-square-foot office on five-night service commonly lands between $1,800 and $3,250. Your real number depends on scope, frequency, and facility type — which is why the honest quote comes from a walkthrough, not a phone call.

How is commercial cleaning priced?

Every quote you get is really one of three models wearing different clothes:

• Per square foot. The standard for recurring janitorial — your area times a rate set by facility type and frequency. Easiest to compare between vendors, because it strips out building size as a variable.
• Per hour. Usually $30–$75 per cleaner. Best for one-time cleans or jobs where the scope genuinely varies visit to visit. Watch this model carefully on recurring work: you are buying hours, not outcomes, and the two are not the same thing.
• Flat per visit or monthly contract. Where most established accounts end up — a predictable number built from the square-foot math, then fixed so budgeting is simple. This is what you want long-term.

There is no fourth model. If a proposal seems to use one, it is one of these three with the arithmetic hidden.

What does commercial cleaning cost by facility type?

Rates vary by what a space demands. A warehouse and a surgery center are not the same job, and the price shouldn't pretend otherwise. These are 2026 industry averages for recurring service — a starting frame, not a quote:

What would my building cost per month?

Per-visit rates are hard to budget against. Here is the same math converted to monthly cost at three visits per week and at five, using the ranges above:

Note what this table shows about frequency: five nights is not 67% more expensive than three. It usually costs less per visit, because a space cleaned nightly never falls far behind, and catching up is the expensive part. If your budget is tight, the instinct to cut from five nights to two often costs more per unit of clean than it saves.

What are office cleaning prices specifically?

Office space is the least expensive commercial category to maintain, because it has the lowest touchpoint density per square foot. Working from the ISSA range of $0.09–$0.17 per square foot, typical office cleaning prices land like this:

• Small suite, under 2,000 sq ft: $180–$340 per visit, though many providers apply a minimum that puts small spaces at an effectively higher rate.
• Standard office, 3,000–6,000 sq ft: $270–$1,020 per visit depending on size and scope.
• Full floor, 10,000+ sq ft: $900–$1,700 per visit, usually with a lower per-square-foot rate as area increases.

How does a cleaning agency build its price?

Worth understanding, because it tells you which parts of a quote are negotiable and which aren't. An agency isn't picking a number — it's working backwards from labor:

1. Production rate. How many square feet one cleaner covers per hour for your scope. Open carpeted office is fast; restroom-heavy or medical space is slow. This single assumption drives everything else.
2. Hours per visit. Your square footage divided by that production rate.
3. Loaded labor cost. Wage plus payroll taxes, workers' compensation, and insurance. This is where W-2 and subcontracted models genuinely diverge, and it's most of the gap between a fair bid and an impossible one.
4. Supplies, equipment, and travel. Usually a modest percentage on top.
5. Overhead and margin. Supervision, admin, and profit.

The practical consequence: when a vendor discounts heavily, they are almost never trimming margin. They are raising the assumed production rate — which means fewer hours in your building. Same price per square foot on paper, less time on the floor. If you want a quote to come down honestly, reduce the scope or the frequency rather than asking for the same work for less.

Which services are quoted separately?

This is where quotes diverge most, and where surprise invoices come from. Periodic and specialty work is normally priced on top of the recurring base rate, not inside it:

Two of these deserve a flag. Strip and refinish at $0.30–$0.60 per square foot is often the single largest cleaning invoice a facility sees all year — and it is frequently avoidable, because a scheduled scrub-and-recoat program at half the rate can postpone a full strip for years. Our breakdown of strip and wax versus buff and burnish covers when each one is actually warranted. And electrostatic disinfection prices in the same neighborhood as a full cleaning visit, which tells you it is a real labor-and-chemical service rather than a cheap add-on — the numbers are in our 2026 electrostatic disinfection price guide.

What moves your price up or down?

• Facility type. Medical and dental cost more because compliance, documentation, and EPA-registered disinfection are part of the job — not optional extras.
• Frequency. More visits per month costs more in total but usually less per visit, for the reason above.
• Scope per visit. "Trash, restrooms, vacuum" and "full detail including glass, dusting, and touchpoint disinfection" are different products at different prices. Most low bids are quietly the first one.
• Condition and floor types. Hard-floor programs, heavy restroom counts, and neglected spaces take real labor. A building coming off a bad vendor often needs a one-time reset before recurring pricing makes sense.
• Labor model. W-2 employees who are background-checked, trained, and covered by workers' comp cost more than subcontracted labor. That difference is most of the gap in many low bids, and it is the part that shows up later as turnover, no-shows, and liability.
• Access and timing. After-hours access, security escorts, elevator scheduling, and multi-building coordination all factor in.

How do I compare two cleaning quotes fairly?

Bids on the same building routinely differ by 2x. Line them up on these five points and the difference usually stops being mysterious:

1. Visits per week — the most common hidden difference. Convert every bid to cost per visit before comparing anything else.
2. The task list per visit — in writing, room by room. Not "full service."
3. What is billed separately — floor care, carpet, glass, disinfection, supplies. Ask for the periodic schedule and its cost, not just the monthly.
4. Who employs the crew — W-2 or subcontracted, and whether it is the same crew each visit.
5. Insurance and coverage — general liability, workers' comp, and whether they can produce a certificate for your landlord's vendor portal.

What you can do this week

Before you talk to a single vendor, you can get your own number close. Three steps, about half an hour:

1. Pull your real square footage off the lease — not memory, not a guess. Multiply by the low and high ends of your facility type in the table above. That is your honest bracket, and any bid far outside it needs an explanation.
2. Write your own scope before anyone writes it for you. Walk the space and list what must happen every visit, what can happen weekly, and what is periodic (floors, carpet, glass). Hand the identical list to every bidder. This one document is the difference between comparing prices and comparing guesses.
3. Audit your current invoice. Add up the last twelve months, including every periodic charge, and divide by your square footage and number of visits. Most facility managers have never seen their true per-square-foot cost — and it is frequently higher than the recurring rate they think they're paying.

If you want to know what a proper site visit should look like before you schedule one, read what to expect from a commercial cleaning walkthrough — including the questions worth asking and the red flags worth walking away from.

Why we quote by walkthrough, not square footage alone

Square footage is where a quote starts, not where it ends. Two identical floor plans can need very different programs — one has three restrooms and a medical suite, the other is open desks and a break room. A free on-site walkthrough is how we turn your actual building into a written, fixed price you can budget against. It is also how you avoid the classic trap: a low phone quote that quietly grows once the crew sees the job.

When you're ready for a real number, we cover the whole spectrum — recurring office cleaning, commercial janitorial at building scale, compliance-grade medical office cleaning, and disinfection services. You can see everything on the full service list, and our crews work across Miami-Dade and Broward, including Miami itself.

The bottom line

Budget $0.09–$0.17 per square foot for standard office work and $0.14–$0.29 for medical, expect periodic floor and carpet work to be quoted on top, and treat any bid dramatically below the range as a scope question rather than a bargain. The cheapest proposal is usually the one where the least is happening — and in this business, what is not happening tends to show up on your floors about ninety days in.