What it costs
This company will quote flat per visit, after seeing the house. This page explains what actually drives that number, and what other businesses publish — so whether you hire us or somebody else, you can tell a real quote from a placeholder.
Why one number cannot describe every house
A single advertised price for a “three-bedroom home” covers houses that do not resemble each other. Two homes on the same street, with the same size and layout, can take very different amounts of work — one with four bathrooms and a dog, the other with two bathrooms and a couple who are rarely home.
What can be said honestly is what moves the number, and what other businesses publish. National cost guides, each read on its own page on 13 September 2026, give these figures for recurring cleaning: Angi $75 to $200 a visit for weekly cleaning, HomeAdvisor $100 to $250 a visit for every two weeks, and Thumbtack $160 to $220 a visit for every two weeks and $162 to $228 for once a month. Angi and HomeAdvisor both put a deep clean at $200 to $400 a visit. Move-out prices are set out, with their own sources, on the move-out page.
In New Jersey, DM House Cleaning, a Kenilworth company whose listed service area is Union, Essex, Middlesex, Morris and Somerset counties, publishes $120 to $650 and up a visit for weekly, every-two-weeks or monthly standard cleaning, depending on home size. In Bergen County, the Hackensack page of Trusted House Cleaners, a cleaning directory, gives $100 to $200 and up a visit for recurring service on a typical two- to three-bedroom, two-bathroom home, and Perfect Cleaning Team, a Garfield cleaning company, puts regular cleaning of a standard 1,500 sq ft home at $110 to $150, on a page last updated 15 December 2025. None of those figures is this company's rate or a quote: each is another business's published figure, read on its own page. This company's price will be flat per visit, in writing, after a walkthrough.
Pay for this work is higher here than nationally. By this page’s arithmetic from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ May 2025 estimates, the median hourly wage for maids and housekeeping cleaners was about 7 percent higher in New Jersey ($18.26) than across the United States ($17.07), and about 24 percent higher ($21.16) in the New York-Newark-Jersey City metropolitan area, which takes in Bergen County as well as New York City. Wages are not prices, and those figures do not say what a clean costs.
Treat all of that as orientation, not a quote. It tells you whether a number you have been given is in the right universe. It does not tell you what your house costs.
The variables
Square footage is the number everyone asks about, but two New Jersey pricing guides read for this page, Costa1Cleaning's and DM House Cleaning's, both treat bathroom count as a bigger driver of price than square footage.
A weekly visit takes less work than a monthly one, because a maintained house needs less each time. A first clean of a house that has gone a long time without one is a deep clean, whatever it is called.
A recurring plan should start with a deep clean, and that first visit costs more than the ones that follow. That is not an upsell; it is the difference between resetting a house and maintaining one. If a quote charges the maintenance rate for a first visit, ask what that visit leaves out.
Marble, honed stone, unlacquered brass, waxed or unsealed wood, and glass tile all have rules, and the wrong product on any of them causes permanent damage that shows. Homes with those finishes take longer because care takes longer.
A household may want the kitchen and bathrooms immaculate and the guest rooms left alone. That is a legitimate plan and it costs less than a package that ignores it. A quote given without that conversation cannot reflect how the house is actually used.
Two dogs and three children generate meaningfully more work than a couple who travel. Ask whether a quote accounted for them.
Comparing quotes
An hourly rate on its own is not a price. It is an open meter. Ask how many hours the house will take and what happens if it runs over — and if nobody will commit to that, you do not have a quote.
A price given from an address alone can only be corrected on arrival, or met by doing less. Neither is what you agreed to.
Cleaning services are taxable in New Jersey, and this company reads that as covering house cleaning; the rate and the reading behind it are set out on this site's credentials page. A quote from this company will show the tax as its own line. If a quote you are comparing has no tax on it, ask which it is — not charged, or folded into the number.
A first-visit promotion is one thing; a recurring rate that stays discounted is another. Ask how long each visit will be and who will do it at that rate, because the time on site is what a low rate has to come out of.
Questions
National cost guides read on 13 September 2026 give $75 to $200 a visit for weekly cleaning (Angi), $100 to $250 a visit for every two weeks (HomeAdvisor), and $160 to $220 a visit for every two weeks or $162 to $228 once a month (Thumbtack). For Bergen County, the Hackensack page of a cleaning directory gives $100 to $200 and up a visit for recurring service on a typical two- to three-bedroom, two-bathroom home. Each of those is another business's published figure rather than a rate or a quote from this company, whose own price will be flat per visit and in writing after a walkthrough. Bathroom count, condition and frequency move the number, so any figure quoted before those are known is a placeholder. Every source is listed at the foot of this page.
Flat is the safer comparison. An hourly rate transfers the risk of a long visit to you: if the house takes longer than expected, you pay for it. A flat price per visit puts that risk on the company, which is where it belongs, and it means you can compare two quotes against each other. This company will quote flat.
Because it is a different job. The first visit resets the house — inside appliances, cabinet interiors, baseboards, grout, window tracks, light fixtures — and later visits maintain that. DM House Cleaning's New Jersey pricing page, for one, shows a first deep clean of about $340 for a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house before service every two weeks at $200 to $240. A first visit priced at the maintenance rate is worth asking about: which of those items does it cover?
It is never expected. The wage of whoever cleans your house will come from this company's payroll, not from your tip.
Trusted House Cleaners, a cleaning directory, says on its Hackensack page that every two weeks is often considered the sweet spot for many Hackensack homes, and that a deep clean is a common starting point; HomeAdvisor's national guide calls every two weeks one of the most popular options. Squeaky Clean NJ says weekly service is ideal for families with children or pets, and DM House Cleaning's published rates are lower per visit weekly than every two weeks at every home size, which it puts down to less buildup between visits. This company will recommend a frequency for your house rather than defaulting to the higher one.
You will get a rough range on the phone if you can tell us the square footage, bedroom and bathroom count, roughly what condition the house is in, and how often you want us. The flat price you can hold us to will come in writing, with the scope, after a walkthrough of the house, which prevents the awkward conversation where the price changes after the work has started.
See house cleaning in Bergen County for what a visit includes, deep cleaning for what the first visit actually covers, move-out cleaning for the empty-house checklist, and Ridgewood if that is where you are.
Sources
Give us the square footage, bedrooms, bathrooms and how often you want us, and the call will get you a rough range. The flat price you can hold us to will come in writing, with the scope, after the walkthrough.
