How to Price Window Cleaning Jobs (2026 Guide)
How to price window cleaning jobs in 2026: per pane vs per hour vs flat, add-ons for screens, tracks, and hard water, story-height surcharges, and recurring route pricing.
A homeowner with a two story colonial calls three window cleaners on a Thursday because she is hosting family in a week and the glass has not been touched since last spring. The first cleaner walks the house, counts forty two panes, adds the screens, the tracks, and a surcharge for the second story exterior, and hands her a $420 flat quote from the driveway before he leaves.
The second cleaner eyeballs it, says "probably around three hundred, I'll email you," and never does the math on the screens or the ladder work. He books the job at $300, spends six hours on it because the tracks were filthy and the upstairs took two ladder setups, and drives away having earned about $40 an hour before he even counts fuel and insurance.
Same house..