Eddie Okudoh

Eddie Okudoh works with commercial cleaning companies across the U.S. and Canada and built the labor-based pricing model behind the index. The index started from a simple gap: most building managers sign a cleaning contract without knowing what a fair price looks like.

It covers typical monthly commercial cleaning costs for 396 U.S. and 43 Canadian cities, for seven types of building and every common cleaning schedule.

Published work

• 2026 Commercial Cleaning Cost Index: what office cleaning costs in every U.S. metro area, the most and least expensive, and the full data as a CSV.
• Commercial cleaning costs in Canada: the same figures for 43 Canadian cities, in Canadian dollars, by province.
• 2027 minimum wage increases and cleaning costs: what each state's 2027 raise could add to a cleaning bill.
• Federal cleaning contracts, fiscal 2025: what federal agencies funded for building cleaning, by agency and state.
• How we estimate prices: the labor model behind every number, with a worked example.
• Janitorial RFP template and how to hire a commercial cleaning company.

How the figures are built

Every price comes from the labor-based model cleaning companies use to bid: hours on site from standard janitorial production rates, priced at the local median wage for cleaners (the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in the U.S., the Government of Canada Job Bank in Canada), plus supplies, supervision, overhead and a typical contractor margin. Business counts and population come from the U.S. Census Bureau and Statistics Canada.

Press and data requests

For a figure on a city or type of building, email press@cleaningrfps.com. Charts and quotable figures are on the press page.