How much does office cleaning cost in NYC?
Real numbers, not a form to fill out. Here is what New York offices actually pay in 2026, what moves the price, and the one question that gets you an honest quote.
Short version: a 5,000 square foot office in Manhattan, cleaned five nights a week, costs between $1,900 and $2,500 a month in 2026. A smaller office starts around $1,300. A 15,000 square foot floor with a multi-cleaner crew starts around $7,400.
Those are Breezy's numbers, and we will explain exactly where they come from, because the way a quote is built tells you more about a cleaning company than the quote itself.
Office cleaning in NYC is priced three ways
1. Per square foot
The most common method, and the least honest. A company quotes $0.25 to $0.60 per square foot per month and calls it a day. The trouble is that square footage says almost nothing about the work. A 5,000 square foot law office with two restrooms and a kitchen takes half the time of a 5,000 square foot startup with a snack wall, six phone booths, and a dog. The formula cannot tell the difference, so the price is either padded or wrong.
2. Flat monthly fee
A round number, usually arrived at by looking at your space and guessing what you will pay. It is simple, and it is unexplainable. When you ask what you are paying for, you get a shrug.
3. By the hour
The crew hours your office needs per visit, times an hourly rate, times your frequency. This is how Breezy prices every account. Our rate runs from $29.50 to $38.50 per crew hour depending on the scope, and supplies are billed at cost. When you ask what you are paying for, the answer is on the invoice.
What the hourly math looks like
A typical 5,000 square foot office takes about three crew hours a night. Five nights a week, 4.3 weeks a month:
Change any input and the price moves with it. Three nights instead of five is about 40 percent less. Add a second kitchen and it goes up an hour a night. Nothing is hidden inside a formula.
Six things that move the price
- People, not square feet. Forty people in 5,000 square feet make far more mess than twelve people in the same space.
- Restrooms and kitchens. Each one adds real time. A shared kitchen with a dishwasher and a fridge that needs a weekly purge is its own line item.
- Frequency. Five nights is the standard for a fully occupied office. Hybrid offices often run three. Two is possible but the office never quite catches up.
- Floor type. Carpet takes longer to vacuum well than polished concrete takes to mop. Rugs on wood take the longest.
- Building access. A freight elevator with a 6 p.m. cutoff or a security desk that takes twenty minutes to clear costs crew time, and someone pays for it.
- Scope creep. Dishes in the sink, whiteboards, the plants. Decide up front what is in and what is out, and the price stays put.
What is usually not in the base price
Quarterly deep cleaning, carpet extraction, interior window detailing, and disinfection beyond high-touch surfaces are add-ons almost everywhere. At Breezy they are quoted by the hour like everything else: a quarterly deep clean of a 5,000 square foot office runs about $250 to $620, carpet extraction $180 to $720 depending on the area, and a full interior glass detail $60 to $230. Ask any company for those numbers before you sign, because they are where a low base price gets its money back.
The cheapest quote is usually the most expensive office
A quote that comes in 30 percent under everyone else is not a bargain. It is a company that will send fewer hours than the job needs, staff it with 1099 contractors who rotate weekly, or both. You will spend the difference in re-explaining the job, in the Monday your conference room was skipped, and in the month you spend replacing them. We wrote about W-2 crews versus 1099 contractors separately, because it decides more about your price than the price does.
How to get an honest quote
Ask one question: how many hours a night, and what is your rate? A company that prices by the hour will answer in ten seconds. A company that does not will change the subject. Either way, you have learned what you needed to know.
If you want the number for your office without the phone tag, the estimate on our homepage does the math from your square footage and frequency. It is a starting range, not a quote. The quote comes from a fifteen minute walk-through, and it comes the same day.
