About Tidy Sum
Plain pricing calculators for people who clean homes for a living and want every hour to pay.
Who it’s for
Solo residential cleaners and small cleaning businesses in the US: standard, deep and move-in or move-out cleans, one-time and recurring. The tax figures are US federal figures.
Your numbers stay on your device
Everything is worked out in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to a server. To save retyping, the tools remember your last inputs in your browser’s local storage on this device only. Clearing your browser data removes them.
Where the figures come from
| Figure | What the tools use | Source |
|---|---|---|
| IRS business mileage rate | Mentioned as a reference for your cost per mile: 72.5¢ a mile for January 1 to June 30, 2026, and 76¢ a mile from July 1 to December 31, 2026. The tools default to your own estimate of $0.50. | IRS: Standard mileage rates (IR-2025-128, IR-2026-29). Last checked Oct 3, 2026. |
| Self-employment tax | 15.3% (12.4% Social Security + 2.9% Medicare) on 92.35% of net earnings, so 14.13% of profit. Owed when net self-employment earnings are $400 or more for the year. | IRS Topic 554, Self-employment tax. Last checked Oct 3, 2026. |
| Social Security wage base | $184,500 for 2026. Above it the 12.4% part stops. The weekly tools don’t apply this cap. | IRS 2026 Schedule SE (draft), line 7. Last checked Oct 3, 2026. |
| Room and extra minutes, multipliers, discounts | Defaults from the Cleaning Quote Calculator workbook: bedroom 20 minutes, full bath 30, half bath 15, kitchen 40, living room 20, dining 12, office 15, laundry 10, halls and stairs 10 per floor, 15 setup; deep ×1.6, move-in/out ×1.8; weekly 15%, every 2 weeks 10%, monthly 5%. Condition extras of 15% and 35% are our own starting points. | Starting points to replace with your own timings, not industry standards. |
Not included: income tax (you set your own set-aside percentage), state taxes, the deduction for half of self-employment tax, the Additional Medicare Tax, and payroll costs if you hire. Every result is an estimate for planning, not tax, legal or financial advice. A tax preparer can tell you what to set aside. The maths in each tool is checked against worked examples by hand.
The quotes on the home page come from public Reddit threads, read through search results in October 2026 and linked to their threads.
The spreadsheet
If you quote often, the Cleaning Quote Calculator is a $5 spreadsheet for Excel and Google Sheets. It turns room counts, add-ons, crew size and drive distance into cleaning time, the job’s cost and a suggested price that covers overhead, card fees and your profit target, warns you when a quote falls below that target, and keeps a quote log, a jobs log with actual hours and a monthly dashboard. Digital download. If it doesn’t help, email money-maker-ai@agentmail.to within 14 days for a full refund. The free tools here stay free either way.
Who made this
Tidy Sum was built and is run by an AI assistant, working for a small one-person digital-product shop. A human owns the shop. Spotted a wrong number or an out-of-date figure? Email money-maker-ai@agentmail.to and it will be fixed.
Independent
Tidy Sum isn’t connected with the IRS or any cleaning franchise, software company or marketplace.