Commercial

Commercial and office cleaning in Bergen County is three markets, not seventy towns.

Bergen has more business establishments than any county in New Jersey — 36,212 in BLS’s 2025 annual averages — and most of them are small. What decides how a building gets cleaned here is not the town on the sign. It is whether you sit on the Route 4 and 17 retail spine, in the Hackensack medical district, or in the Teterboro industrial belt.

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Written for whoever specifies, prices or audits cleaning for a commercial building in this county. Every number below names the record it came from, listed under Sources.

One thing up front: this company was formed in New Jersey in August 2026 and is taking on its first accounts. The person running it is not new to the trade — more than fifteen years in it — and the LLC exists because he wanted to work for himself rather than for someone else. In those years he has worked in offices, in medical and dental suites, in warehouses and distribution centres, on post-construction work, in homes and in government buildings. That is his experience and not this company’s client list: the work was done for other people, so no building, account or reference behind it is ours to name, to count or to offer. What is presented here is the public record, and it is listed at the end so you can check every line of it.

The denominator

What Bergen County actually is, measured four ways.

Business addresses: 36,212BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025 annual averages — more than any New Jersey county and 41% ahead of second-place Middlesex at 25,658. That is 11.0% of the 329,088 establishments BLS counts statewide, a total which includes 50,616 it does not assign to any county.
Employees per address: 12.1437,006 employees across those 36,212 addresses. Middlesex carries almost identical employment, 431,665, across 16.8 employees per establishment. Bergen is a county of many mid-size and small workplaces rather than a few large ones.
How small, exactly: 87.7% under 20 employeesCensus County Business Patterns 2023 — a different universe and a different year, so it is printed separately rather than blended. Of 31,818 Bergen establishments, 18,987 (59.7%) had fewer than five employees and only 681 (2.1%) had 100 or more.
Commercial property: $27.21 billionAcross 11,455 taxable Class 4A commercial parcels. 2025 Abstract of Ratables, Bergen County Board of Taxation.
Industrial property: $12.04 billionAcross 2,738 Class 4B industrial parcels, from the same table.
Share of the tax roll: 5.8% of parcels, 24.7% of valueCommercial, industrial and apartment property together are 15,986 of the county's 274,485 taxable line items, but $49.53 billion of its $200.42 billion in assessed value.
Population: 978,641Census Bureau estimate for 1 July 2024. New Jersey's most populous county, ahead of Middlesex at 890,119 and Essex at 881,527.

Two measurement notes, because they change what the numbers mean. The two establishment counts above come from different federal programmes with different universes and different reference years, which is why they are printed separately and never averaged. And Bergen is 11.0% of the BLS statewide total but 13.0% of the establishments BLS actually assigns to a county — so any share figure has to name its denominator. On occupancy: no government agency publishes a commercial square-footage inventory for this county, so the only vacancy figures available are a brokerage’s. Newmark Research put Bergen Central at 12.3% total office vacancy in the first quarter of 2026, Bergen East at 10.2% and Bergen North at 12.6%, each well below the 18.1% Northern New Jersey average. An empty floor is an unbilled floor, which is why that is the market statistic a cleaning budget tracks.

Corridor one

The Route 4 and Route 17 spine, and why the window is small.

Two roads that get described as one thing, and are not

NJDOT's own linear referencing puts Route 4 at 10.83 miles, running east from milepost 0 in Paterson, Passaic County, to the George Washington Bridge approach in Fort Lee. It never enters the Meadowlands. Route 17 is 26.81 miles, with its southern terminus at the Passaic River in Kearny — Hudson County, not Bergen — crossing into Bergen within its first two miles and then running the length of the county to the New York State line at Mahwah. One is a connector. The other changes character three times along its route, and a scope written for one stretch of it does not transfer to another.

Paramus is 4% of the county's commercial parcels and 20% of its commercial value

457 of the county's 11,455 Class 4A parcels, carrying $5.45 billion of the $27.21 billion. Commercial property is 42% of Paramus's own $12.89 billion ratable base. That puts the average Paramus commercial parcel near $11.9 million against a countywide commercial average nearer $2.4 million. Hackensack, by contrast, has the highest commercial parcel count in the county — 1,022, more than double any other municipality — at a much lower $2.07 billion. The tax roll gives the counts and the values; what they mean for a cleaning specification is this page's reading of them.

The borough wrote the congestion problem down in 1969

Paramus Borough Code § 391-1 records, in its own legislative findings, that the borough “is traversed by three major highways: New Jersey State Highway Route No. 4; New Jersey State Highway Route No. 17 and the Garden State Parkway, all of which are heavily traveled”; that “Shopping centers have been established on Route No. 17 and Route No. 4 in the Borough”; that “The Garden State Parkway intersects Route No. 17 approximately one mile north of Route No. 4”; and that “The traffic peak on the aforesaid thoroughfares in the Borough is reached on Sunday with attendant traffic congestion.” The borough's own findings are a primary source on corridor traffic, and they date the problem to 1969.

What NJDOT counts, and when it counted it

Route 17 just north of the Route 4 interchange carries 145,109 vehicles a day at station 2-1-033, milepost 12.323 to 12.870, from a 2011 count; the segment above it 141,786 at station c19203, milepost 12.870 to 13.578, counted in 2019. Route 4 between Paramus and River Edge carries 154,671 at station 1302a3, milepost 4.311 to 5.132, counted in 2013 — the highest published figure anywhere on Route 4. South of the Route 4 interchange, Route 17 volumes drop to 106,842 at station 2131, milepost 11.809 to 12.323, counted in 2021. Every one of those needs its station, its milepost range and its count year attached, because NJDOT's layer mixes count years from 2010 to 2021 and publishes nothing at all for 2022 onward on either corridor.

The rent tells you how narrow the cleaning window is

Urban Edge Properties' Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 puts average annualized base rent at its Paramus property at 260 Route 4 East at $49.97 per square foot — ahead of its Brooklyn and Bronx centers, and exceeded in that portfolio only by two properties in Walnut Creek, California. The same filing lists Bergen Town Center – West at 1,011,000 square feet and 97.3% leased at $34.30; Bergen Town Center – East at 209,000 square feet, fully leased, at $20.40; and Hackensack Commons at 275,000 square feet, fully leased, at $26.53. On frontage priced like that, floor work has to fit the hours the space is closed, and the lease is where those hours are set.

Corridor two

Hackensack is a medical district, and the register says so.

One in seven businesses in the 07601 ZIP is an ambulatory health care establishment

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023 puts ZIP 07601 at 133 offices of physicians and 305 ambulatory health care establishments out of 2,166 businesses of every kind — the highest in the county on both measures. Next by physician-office count are Paramus 07652 with 122, Englewood 07631 with 103, Teaneck 07666 with 82 and Ridgewood 07450 with 78; on the broader ambulatory measure Fort Lee 07024 edges past Teaneck with 199. Countywide the figures are 1,188 physician offices and 3,431 ambulatory establishments across seventy reporting ZIPs. Say which measure you are ranking by, because the ranking flips between them.

Downtown Hackensack has a boundary and a composition, both on paper

The City of Hackensack Downtown Rehabilitation Plan, as amended in January 2025, describes a Rehabilitation Area of “approximately 163.80 acres on 389 parcels in 39 city blocks.” Office is 52.18% of those parcels at 203, General Commercial 34.96% at 136, High Density Residential/Commercial 6.42% at 25 and Parking 2.05% at 8. The plan itself states that this breakdown derives from the 2001 Master Plan and the 8 July 2009 Reexamination Report, and that caveat travels with the numbers here rather than being quietly dropped.

Five hospitals above 370 beds, and the measure changes the number

From the New Jersey Department of Health's acute-care facilities register, rows updated 3 June 2026: Hackensack University Medical Center at 30 Prospect Avenue, 827 licensed beds; Englewood Hospital at 350 Engle Street, 531; Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus, 496; The Valley Hospital in Paramus, 413; Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, 372; and Hackensack Meridian Pascack Valley in Westwood, 128. Measurement discipline matters here: HUMC is licensed at 827 beds, second in the state behind Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick at 1,196, while its calendar-2023 Medicare cost report shows 769 beds, or 793 including subproviders, with 6,606.04 full-time-equivalent employees and 41,703 discharges. Two different measures of the same hospital, and this page names both. Across Bergen's eight Medicare-certified hospital filings the totals are 16,758.52 FTE employees and 100,107 discharges.

The Valley Hospital is not in Ridgewood, and that is the tell

It moved to 4 Valley Health Plaza in Paramus in April 2024, where the State licenses it at 413 beds. Both the Department of Health register and the federal hospital enrollment file carry the Paramus address, and the State register now lists the Ridgewood site only as an off-site ambulatory care facility. Its most recent Medicare cost report, covering calendar 2023, still shows Ridgewood and 385 beds because it predates the move. A source that still places Valley in Ridgewood predates the move, so check its date.

Filtered to Bergen County, the State’s acute-care register returns 167 licensed facilities, 121 of them with a licence that had not expired as of 2 September 2026: 40 ambulatory surgical centres, 31 ambulatory care facilities, 14 hospital-based off-site ambulatory facilities, 13 dialysis facilities, six general acute care hospitals, plus a psychiatric hospital in Wyckoff, a comprehensive rehabilitation hospital in Saddle Brook and two long-term acute care hospitals. The register carries rows whose licences expired years ago, so that is the unexpired count and that is the filter applied. The ambulatory care facilities among them are licensed under N.J.A.C. 8:43A, whose Subchapter 17 sets housekeeping obligations well beyond ordinary janitorial practice. That, and the OSHA and regulated-medical-waste rules alongside it, is set out on our medical and dental office cleaning page rather than repeated here. What the City’s own code asks of a commercial building’s waste stream there — an annual registration and a monthly recycling report — is on the Hackensack page.

Corridor three

Seven residential parcels and fifty-four industrial ones.

Teterboro's entire tax roll is 88 line items

The 2025 Abstract of Ratables records seven residential dwellings against 54 industrial parcels, with industrial property at $531.5 million of the borough's $588.4 million taxable base — ninety percent of it. Moonachie runs 142 industrial parcels at $865.2 million against 592 homes at $304.3 million, so its industrial property is worth nearly three times its entire housing stock and 68% of its base. South Hackensack: 168 industrial parcels at $725.8 million against 526 homes at $326.7 million, 63%. Carlstadt has 313 industrial parcels, the most of any Bergen municipality — and its Class 4B value column overflowed to hash marks on the county's own scan, so this page prints the count and not the value.

The corridor has a boundary the State drew

Ten Bergen municipalities sit partly inside the state-designated Hackensack Meadowlands District — Carlstadt, East Rutherford, Little Ferry, Lyndhurst, Moonachie, North Arlington, Ridgefield, Rutherford, South Hackensack and Teterboro — and together they hold 1,089 of the county's 2,738 industrial parcels, 39.8%. One caveat in print: that count includes every industrial parcel in those ten municipalities, including parcels outside the District line, because the Abstract reports by taxing district rather than by District boundary. The District covers 30.3 square miles across parts of fourteen towns in Bergen and Hudson counties, and the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, not the boroughs, is its regional planning and zoning agency — a role it absorbed from the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission in 2015.

Bergen is a wholesale county more than a warehousing one, and the corridor's scope follows from that

BLS location quotients for 2025 put Bergen County wholesale trade at 1.83 times the national employment concentration across 2,438 establishments and 31,009 employees, with grocery and related product merchant wholesalers at 2.11. Warehousing and storage sits at 0.67 — a third below the national average — across only 82 establishments and 3,580 employees. The 2024 readings agree: 1.86, 2.08 and 0.69. A wholesale operation carries office staff as well as a floor, so a scope for one will be written as office-plus-floor with day staff to work around rather than as a bare warehouse on a scrubbing cycle. A scope written for a bare warehouse will miss the office half of the work.

Few residents, so the schedule follows the shifts

The Meadowlands master plan currently posted by the NJSEA, containing data through 2023, records Teterboro at 67 residents, Moonachie at 2,773, South Hackensack at 2,596, Carlstadt at 6,451 and Little Ferry at 11,304 — and puts 2,307.6 of Carlstadt's 2,690 acres inside the District, 85.7%, against East Rutherford at 75.4%, Moonachie 74.5%, Teterboro 67.4% and South Hackensack at only 91.3 of 476 acres, 19.1%, the smallest District share of any member municipality. Those percentages are the plan's own, reproduced as it prints them rather than recomputed from the acreages beside them. That is why a cleaning schedule here will be built around shift changes rather than an evening start. Teterboro Airport sits alongside it under a different owner: the Port Authority describes the 827-acre field as bordering Teterboro, Hasbrouck Heights, Little Ferry, Moonachie and Wood-Ridge, permits no scheduled commercial operations and prohibits aircraft over 100,000 pounds, and recorded 172,499 aircraft movements in 2024 against 171,458 in 2023 and 231,017 in 1980. Its built inventory runs to roughly 572,000 square feet across 23 hangars, one building of about 134,400 square feet, and some 252,000 square feet of office and shop space at fixed-base operator locations — 24-hour building stock on nobody's airline turn schedule. Worth noting that the NJSEA plan places the airport in Teterboro and Moonachie while the Port Authority names five bordering municipalities; the Port Authority's own language is what is used here.

Scheduling

What the Sunday law actually says, and where it stops.

“Bergen County is closed on Sundays” is the shorthand. The statute is narrower and stranger than that. It is also the single most useful scheduling fact in the county, so it is worth getting right.

The Appellate Division put the scope plainly in State v. Channel Home Centers, 199 N.J. Super. 483 (App. Div. 1985): the law “is not a broad ban on worldly employment or business,” it “prohibits retail activity in the selected areas of clothing and wearing apparel, building and lumber supply materials, furniture, home or business or office furnishings, and household, business or office appliances,” and it “applies only in counties that adopt it by referendum … except in any municipality that may opt out of the county adoption.” The county and municipal status described in that opinion is as of 1985, not today.

Here is the pairing that makes it matter commercially. Bergen County has close to double the national concentration of clothing and clothing-accessories retailers, one of the categories the law names: 350 establishments and 4,891 employees, a location quotient of 2.06 in 2025 and 1.87 in 2024, with shoe retailers at 2.04 — against overall retail at 1.10. Deep-clean scheduling, floor-finish recoating and carpet extraction all want a window when the space is empty and no selling hours are lost. Where no local rule stands in the way, that window is Sunday, and Paramus, below, is one place where a local rule does.

The county statute reaches goods, not labour

N.J.S.A. 2A:171-5.8, from L.1959 c.119 and codified through 2A:171-5.18, makes it unlawful on Sunday to sell at retail, wholesale or auction “clothing or wearing apparel, building and lumber supply materials, furniture, home or business or office furnishings, household, business or office appliances,” except works of necessity and charity or isolated transactions. Penalties escalate from $250 to $5,000 and six months; each single sale to one customer is a distinct violation; directors, officers, managers, agents and employees are personally liable; and four convictions deem the premises a nuisance. One provenance caveat that must travel with it: this operative text is quoted from Assembly Bill No. 148 of the 208th Legislature, § 14 — a Law Revision Commission restatement in an official legislative document that was never enacted. It reproduces the language; it is not itself the codified section.

Paramus is a different law, and it reaches labour

Paramus is governed by its own instrument. Borough Code § 391-2: “No worldly employment or business, except works of necessity and charity, shall be performed or practiced by any person within the Borough on the first day of the week.” Its exemption lists at §§ 391-3 and 391-4 cover drugs, meals and prepared food, perishables and non-alcoholic beverages, newspapers, milk and baked goods, recreation and sport, conveyances and motor fuel, tobacco, and residential real estate in the Borough. Building maintenance and contract cleaning appear in neither list. Whether contract cleaning is a work of necessity under that ordinance is unsettled and we found no case deciding it — so Sunday work inside Paramus will be treated as a question for the building owner and the borough, never as an assumption. The detail is on our Paramus page.

The fragmentation

Seventy sets of local rules, and no cleaning licence in any.

One municipality every 3.3 square miles

Seventy municipalities — 56 boroughs, nine townships, three cities in Englewood, Garfield and Hackensack, and two villages in Ridgewood and Ridgefield Park — the most of any New Jersey county, against Monmouth's 53, Burlington's 40 and Morris's 39, spread across 232.794 square miles of land. That is seventy sets of ordinances governing dumpster placement, night noise, commercial trash days and after-hours access. It is a servicing constraint, and it is precisely why this site does not publish seventy town pages. A page per municipality would be a page per ordinance nobody read.

There is no occupational licence for commercial cleaning in New Jersey

No town turns commercial cleaning into a licensed trade; what a municipality regulates is narrower than that. Fort Lee's Chapter 258 sets up landscaping and snowplowing licences through the Building Department — $75 a year for snowplowing services, $100 for a combined landscaping and snow removal licence, a permit sticker on every vehicle the contractor operates, expiry each 31 December, and an exemption for entities registered with the State under the Contractors' Registration Act. Note the limit precisely: the operative sentence at § 258-2(A) requires a licence to “conduct a landscaping business,” and snowplowing appears in the definitions, the application clause and the fee schedule but not there. The municipal chapters read for this page are listed under Sources, and nothing here describes the rest. In the three read, nothing reaches an outside cleaning contractor at all.

The insurance registration is real, and it attaches to the building's owner

Since P.L. 2022, c.92, at N.J.S.A. 40A:10A-1 and -2, a business owner must maintain liability insurance of no less than $500,000 combined for property damage and bodily injury or death in any one occurrence, and must register the certificate annually with the municipality where the business is located; a municipality may set an administrative fee by ordinance and fine non-compliance not less than $500 and no more than $5,000. Fort Lee implements it at Chapter 176, filed with the Fire Official at $50 annually, expiring 31 December. Worth being clear about what that figure is: $500,000 is New Jersey's statutory floor, and it is well short of what a commercial lease asks for — which is why a commercial buyer should read the limit in its own lease rather than the one in a licensing ordinance. What this company's policy is placed at is set against whatever the signed agreement specifies, evidenced with the endorsement pages themselves rather than a certificate reference. No limit is published here: general liability, workers' compensation and the bond are bound before the first shift, and no figure appears on this site until a policy exists to carry it.

The State's building-services wage law is narrower than its reputation, and the Act says so itself

The State Building Service Contracts Act, N.J.S.A. 34:11-56.58 et seq., sets wage floors for building services on property owned or leased by the State, for contracts entered or renewed on or after 13 March 2006. “Building services” is defined to include sweeping, vacuuming, floor cleaning, cleaning of rest rooms, collecting refuse or trash and window cleaning. “Leased by the State” means at least 55% of the property is leased with the leased portion over 20,000 square feet. And the Act's own definition of “the State” — New Jersey and all its departments, bureaus, boards, commissions, agencies and instrumentalities, including State institutions of higher education — expressly “does not include political subdivisions.” By its own terms it does not reach a borough hall, a county building or a school district, and Bergen has 408 local-government establishments employing 40,177 people. The rates are not set by New Jersey either: the Commissioner designates them from federal Service Contract Act determinations published county by county, under occupation codes including Janitor 11150 and Window Cleaner 11360. Check the current determination rather than trusting any figure a bidder prints.

What does govern a borough hall, a county building or a school district is a different body of law — two bidding statutes, four spending bands and a set of thresholds that moved on 1 July 2025 — and it is set out on our page about public sector cleaning in New Jersey. This page names only the municipal chapters that were read. A specific address will be checked at the walkthrough rather than asserted from a template.

Before you sign anything

What a Bergen County bid has to clear.

Bergen County has 317 janitorial services establishments employing 4,564 people — 12.2% of New Jersey’s 2,604, at 1.52 times the national employment concentration. That is half again the national concentration of janitorial employment, and this company, formed in August 2026, is new to it. Worth saying before anything else here reads like a pitch.

BLS put the average weekly wage in Bergen County janitorial services at $699 in 2024 and $665 in 2025, against an all-industry private-sector average of $1,556 and $1,612 in the same two years. Both years are printed because the janitorial figure moved down while the county average moved up, and we have not found an explanation for it. Those are averages, not a floor. Payroll taxes and workers’ compensation sit on top of whatever wage a W-2 employer pays, and this company’s number will be built on them.

Are your cleaners W-2 employees or subcontractors? Under New Jersey’s ABC test a cleaner is an employee unless the company can prove all three parts of the test, and where the liability lands is set out on the ABC test page.
Can I see the additional insured endorsement, not just the certificate? A checked box on an ACORD form confers nothing on its own.
Does your general liability cover damage to the floor you’re cleaning? Standard policies exclude it unless a care, custody and control endorsement was added.
Is sales tax included or added? Cleaning services are taxable in New Jersey, and a bid should show the tax as its own line; the rate and the bulletin behind it are on the credentials page.

Our answers, including where each item stands today and what binds before we start, are on the credentials page.

One seasonal note that is a budget line rather than an upsell. NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals for Newark Liberty — the closest first-order station, south of the county, because NOAA publishes no snowfall normals for Teterboro — give 31.5 inches of annual snowfall, 14.5 days a year with measurable snowfall, 7.1 days with an inch or more, and 21.5 days with at least an inch on the ground. Road de-icers are chlorides. Chloride residue tracked onto a finished floor leaves a white haze and, left in place, attacks the finish rather than sitting on top of it. That is why winter changes the matting plan and adds a neutralising rinse, and why entry matting and a scheduled spring refinish belong in the number from the start.

How it works

Four steps, in this order, on every account.

01
We walk the building
Set aside thirty to forty-five minutes, at whatever hour suits you. The walkthrough will measure the cleanable square footage and note floor types, restroom fixture counts, and anything unusual about access.
02
You get a written scope
Task by task, area by area, with a frequency against each one. Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly. It will be the document both sides point at when something is in question.
03
A fixed monthly number
It will be built from the labor hours the scope needs, at their loaded cost. New Jersey sales tax will be shown as its own line, so the number can be compared with any other bid; the rate and its bulletin are on the credentials page.
04
Insurance, then keys, then start
The certificate is issued to you with the additional insured endorsement attached before anyone gets access. The key and alarm protocol will be agreed in writing, and then the first shift will run.

The rest of the site

Where each building type is written up.

This page is the market and the buying decision. The specification for a particular kind of building lives on its own page, written the same way and cited the same way.

Warehouse and distribution centers — Office and floor scopes priced separately, and how the scrubbing cycle is actually set.
The Meadowlands district — The District's building stock, its flood rules, and what OSHA actually requires of housekeeping.
Medical and dental offices — The OSHA exposure determination, EPA label law, CDC's surface categories and New Jersey's regulated medical waste rules.
Apartment and condominium common areas — The housing code rule titled “Janitorial services required,” and what an inspector actually scores.
Car dealerships — Showroom and service department as two separate scopes under one roof.
Post-construction and fit-out — Rough, final and touch-up phases sequenced against the punch list.
Paramus — The borough's own Sunday ordinance in operational detail, and what it means for scheduling.
Englewood — The hospital district and the professional offices on the county's eastern edge.
Hackensack — The City's monthly recycling report, the hauler's hours, and what the tax roll says is actually there.
Fair Lawn — Two special improvement districts, and a borough code that puts private footways inside the word sidewalk.
What it costs — How a commercial quote is actually built, and what moves the number.
Credentials — Registration, payroll, insurance — including what is in force today and what is not yet.

Two parts of the county deliberately do not get a corridor section here. The Sylvan Avenue corporate strip in Englewood Cliffs — CNBC lists its contact address at 900 Sylvan Avenue — and the Montvale corporate cluster, where Sharp’s own branch page places its headquarters at 100 Paragon Drive, are single-tenant corporate campuses rather than a market with a shared specification. Country Club Plaza at 115 and 117 Century Road in Paramus, owned by Onyx Equities, is Class A office built in 1988 and acquired in 2016 — and the owner’s own page gives two different sizes for it, 300,260 square feet in the description and 302,945 in the specs, which we have not resolved. Those three are named because they are verifiable on the companies’ and the owner’s own pages. Where a building could not be verified on a page its owner controls, it is not on this one.

Cleaning is a drive-time business. Outside these corridors this company will say no rather than subcontract the work or arrive late.

Frequency

How often an office actually needs cleaning, and what decides it.

There is no legal answer for an office. New Jersey sets a frequency for one building type only — a registered multiple dwelling, where N.J.A.C. 5:10-11.3 is headed Janitorial services required and obliges the owner to provide regular daily care of the common areas. No equivalent rule reaches a private office, a showroom or a warehouse. So the frequency is a commercial decision, and these are the five things that decide it.

01
Restroom fixture count, not square footage
This is the first thing to count, and a bid that does not state it cannot be compared with one that does. Restrooms are the only part of an office that degrades on a daily cycle regardless of headcount, and they set the floor for how often anyone has to be in the building at all. A 6,000 square foot suite with two restrooms and a 6,000 square foot suite with six are different contracts.
02
How many people are actually in, and on which days
Occupancy drives soil load, and hybrid patterns have made this uneven rather than lower — a building at ninety percent on Tuesday and thirty percent on Friday does not need the same visit on both. Ask for the badge data if the building has it. Pricing from headcount on paper rather than from attendance is how a scope ends up wrong in the same direction every week.
03
Whether food is prepared or only eaten
A pantry with a microwave and a coffee machine is a different daily problem from a kitchen, and both are different from a floor with no food at all. Waste handling is the part that cannot be stretched: once refuse sits over a weekend, the frequency question has been answered for you.
04
Floor type, which sets the periodic cycle rather than the nightly one
Carpet tolerates a longer gap between visits than hard floor does, but carries its own extraction cycle. Waxed VCT carries a strip-and-refinish obligation that a carpeted building simply does not have. The nightly frequency and the periodic cycle are two separate lines, and a scope that merges them cannot be checked against either.
05
What the building's own rules already require
A lease, a management agreement or a tenant handbook can set a standard the contractor then has to meet, and in a mixed building the common-area obligation may already be fixed by code even where your suite's is not. Read those before agreeing a frequency, because they are the one input that is not negotiable.

Whether a building needs nightly service, three nights a week or once or twice a week comes from counting the fixtures and looking at the floors. How the frequency then drives the number is on what it costs. For a multiple dwelling, where the daily obligation is a code requirement rather than a choice, see apartment common areas.

Questions

What building managers ask.

Can you clean on a Sunday?

Outside Paramus, the county statute is not the obstacle, but each municipality writes its own rules, and the one for your address will be checked before a Sunday is agreed. New Jersey's county Sunday law reaches the retail sale of specified goods, and the Appellate Division has held it “is not a broad ban on worldly employment or business.” Cleaning a closed building is not a sale of clothing, furniture or appliances. Paramus is a genuinely different case, because its own ordinance reaches worldly employment rather than goods and its exemption lists do not name building maintenance — so there it will be treated as a question for the owner and the borough rather than answered yes. It is a building-by-building answer and we will show you the reasoning for yours.

What hours do you work?

Whatever hour the building needs, seven days a week. Commercial work will be scheduled after hours by default, starting between 6pm and 9pm, but that is a default rather than a limit. In a warehouse the window will be set by the gap between shifts, and in the Teterboro and Moonachie corridor that can mean pre-dawn or shift change rather than the evening. Day porter coverage will be scheduled during business hours where a lobby or high-traffic area needs it. Weekends and holidays will be offered like any other day, with one caveat: a municipal ordinance can restrict Sunday work, as Paramus's does, and that will be checked for your address before a Sunday is agreed.

Do we have to supply anything?

No. Equipment, chemicals and labor will be supplied by this company. Consumables — paper towels, toilet tissue, hand soap, can liners — can be billed through this company on terms written into the agreement, or you can keep buying them yourself. Whichever you prefer will be written into the agreement, so there is no argument later.

What happens when someone calls out?

The account gets covered. Accounts will be staffed for absence rather than assigned to one person with no backup, because a building that gets skipped once starts shopping.

Can you meet our landlord's insurance requirements?

Send us the certificate language from your lease or management agreement before we quote. The limits your lease specifies are what the policy gets placed against, and the additional insured requirement is met with the endorsement pages themselves rather than a checkbox on a certificate. Say plainly where this stands today: nothing is bound. General liability, workers' compensation and the bond are bound before the first shift, which is the same thing this page says in the section above and on our credentials page.

Do we need to check whether you are licensed in our town?

New Jersey has no occupational licence for commercial cleaning, so there is no statewide credential to check. In the municipal codes read for this page, what varies is narrower — vehicle permits for particular trades, business insurance registration, trash and noise rules. The ordinance for your address will be read before a scope is signed, and you will be told what was found and what could not be checked.

Have you cleaned buildings in Bergen County before?

Not as this company. Robo Facility Services LLC was formed in New Jersey in August 2026 to work in this county and has not cleaned a building yet — no completed jobs, no client list, no references. The person running it is not new to the work: more than fifteen years in this trade, and the LLC exists because he wanted to work for himself rather than for someone else. Those years cover offices, medical and dental suites, warehouses and distribution centres, post-construction work, homes and government buildings. They are his and not this company's: the work was done for other people, so the buildings are not ours to name or to count, no reference from them is ours to offer, and this page does not claim they were worked in Bergen County. Government buildings on that list are his work history and not a claim that this company is positioned to bid public work today. Every figure and quotation on this page is listed under Sources below, with its vintage, so you can check it. What we bring to a walkthrough is that reading, and a written scope that names frequencies rather than adjectives. Anyone who works in your building will be a W-2 employee of this company, never a subcontractor and never paid in cash. General liability, workers' compensation and a bond are bound before the first shift, and where a building credentials its vendors the packet will be assembled per building at the point of award. How a monthly figure is built is set out on the commercial cleaning cost page.

Sources

Where every figure on this page comes from.

US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025 and 2024 annual averages — establishment and employment counts, location quotients and average weekly wages for Bergen County and New Jersey. Location quotients are quoted only where the two years agree; where a figure moved sharply between them it has been said so or left out. The janitorial figures on this page were re-read from the QCEW open data files for area 34003 on 18 September 2026 — private ownership, NAICS 561720 — which give an average weekly wage of $689 in 2023, $699 in 2024 and $665 in 2025, with 335, 322 and 317 establishments and 4,905, 4,601 and 4,564 employees: data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/area/34003.csv, with the same path for 2024 and 2023.
US Census Bureau — County Business Patterns 2023 for establishment size bands; ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023 for physician offices and ambulatory establishments by ZIP; Vintage 2024 population estimates; 2024 Gazetteer land areas. QCEW and County Business Patterns use different universes and reference years and are reported separately for that reason.
2025 Abstract of Ratables, Bergen County Board of Taxation — the Real Property Classification Summary and the per-municipality classification table, for every parcel count and assessed value above. The Carlstadt Class 4B value column is illegible on the county’s own scan and is not quoted.
New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority — for the Hackensack Meadowlands District’s 30.3 square miles, its fourteen member municipalities and the NJSEA’s 2015 absorption of the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission; and the District master plan currently posted, which contains data through 2023, for municipal acreage and population. Its table “Land Within the Hackensack Meadowlands District, by Municipality” was read on 18 September 2026 from the Authority’s own copy at njmc.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com; the acreages and percentages above are that table’s, including its 85.7% for Carlstadt and 19.1% for South Hackensack, which the plan truncates rather than rounds.
New Jersey Department of Transportation — the annual average daily traffic feature service, for Route 4 and Route 17 route lengths, segment endpoints, station identifiers, milepost ranges, volumes and count years. That layer mixes count years from 2010 to 2021 and publishes nothing for 2022 onward on these corridors.
The Sunday law — N.J.S.A. 2A:171-5.8 through -5.11 (L.1959, c.119), with operative text as restated at § 14 of Assembly Bill No. 148, 208th Legislature, an official legislative document that was never enacted and which reproduces, but is not, the codified section. State v. Channel Home Centers, 199 N.J. Super. 483 (App. Div. 1985). Borough of Paramus Code, Chapter 391 (Ord. No. 608, 1969), §§ 391-1 through 391-6.
Municipal and wage law — Borough of Fort Lee Code, Chapter 176 on business insurance registration and Chapter 258 on landscapers and snowplowing contractors. P.L. 2022, c.92, at N.J.S.A. 40A:10A-1 and -2. The State Building Service Contracts Act, N.J.S.A. 34:11-56.58 et seq., and its definitions at 34:11-56.59, with rates derived from federal Service Contract Act determinations. The municipal chapters read for this page are the ones named above, and no others.
Health care — New Jersey Department of Health acute-care facilities dataset, rows updated 3 June 2026, for licensed bed counts, addresses, facility types and licence expiry; and the federal hospital cost report and enrollment files for bed counts, FTE employees, discharges and current addresses. Licensed beds and cost-report beds are different measures and both are named wherever they differ. City of Hackensack Downtown Rehabilitation Plan, Amendments January 2025, whose land-use percentages the plan itself attributes to the 2001 Master Plan and the 2009 Reexamination Report.
Property and climate — Port Authority of New York and New Jersey 2024 Airport Traffic Report for Teterboro Airport’s size, role, facilities and movement series. Urban Edge Properties, Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended 31 December 2025, Item 2 Properties. Newmark Research, Office Market Overview: Northern New Jersey, 1Q26 — a brokerage’s proprietary research, used because no government agency publishes a commercial square-footage inventory for this county; three figures are quoted and its tables are not reproduced. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, 1991–2020 Climate Normals, Newark Liberty station. Onyx Equities, cnbc.com and business.sharpusa.com for the three buildings named above.

Published 2 September 2026; the BLS janitorial series was re-read from its open data files on 18 September 2026. Every figure is quoted with its source and its vintage. Where two agencies describe the same thing differently — the Port Authority and the NJSEA on Teterboro Airport’s footprint, the State licence and the federal cost report on hospital beds — both are printed rather than one being picked quietly. Bergen County has seventy municipalities and only the chapters named above were read; a specific address will be checked at the walkthrough. Nothing here is a claim about work this company has done. It is a claim about the record, and the record is listed above so you can check it.

Walk the building with us.

Set aside thirty to forty-five minutes, at whatever hour suits the building. The walkthrough will measure the cleanable area and note the floor types and the fixture counts, and the scope will be written against the corridor you are actually in — the Sunday window, the shift gap, or the medical protocol. You will get a written scope, then a fixed monthly number. No charge.