Medical office cleaning prices per square foot
Medical offices take longer to clean than regular offices: high-touch surfaces and floors in exam rooms and waiting areas are disinfected every night, and medical waste is handled separately. Here is what that work costs per square foot, computed from production rates.
Quick answer
$0.25 to $0.60 per sq ft per month
About $1,793/month for a 3,000 sq ft medical office and $12,707/month for 50,000 sq ft. Smaller buildings cost more per square foot: restrooms, trash and break rooms do not shrink with the floor area.
How this is computed
- Sizes: 3,000 and 50,000 sq ft, the typical range for medical offices.
- Scope: BidLoom's default areas and tasks for a medical office (listed below), on its default schedule of 5 visits a week, timed with BidLoom's production rates (approximations of ISSA 612 from public sources).
- Labor: $15.00/hr base wage, burdened to $16.82/hr with FICA, FUTA, US-average SUTA (2.7%) and janitorial workers comp (3.5%, EMR 1.00), no benefits.
- Supplies at 6% of labor, and the price at a 30% margin.
These are the defaults a new BidLoom account starts with, so the full bid opens at the same price. Pick your state below, or set your own wage and rates in the app.
- Hours per visit
- ~6.2 hrs
- Monthly price at 30% margin
- ~$3,419/mo
- Per sq ft per month
- $0.34
Burdened labor at $16.82/hr (US averages). State paid leave estimates use the higher-obligation tier within 10–49 employees; employee deductions are excluded. Tasks done on every visit follow the visits per week; the others keep the schedule below unless there are fewer visits. Fewer visits add a per-visit buildup: each visit has more to clean.
What the estimate includes
The default areas and tasks for a medical office. In the full bid you change, add or remove any of them.
Patient / Exam Rooms
35% of the floor
- Disinfect High-Touch Surfaces5× a week
- Damp Mop & Disinfect Floor5× a week
- Empty Medical Waste5× a week
Waiting Area
15% of the floor
- Vacuum / Mop Floor5× a week
- Disinfect Seating5× a week
- Empty Trash5× a week
Restrooms
3 restrooms
- Clean, Disinfect & Restock Restroom5× a week
Office / Admin
20% of the floor
- Vacuum Carpet (backpack)5× a week
- Empty Trash5× a week
- Dust Surfaces2× a week
Hallways / Common
20% of the floor
- Damp Mop & Disinfect Floor5× a week
Medical offices: frequently asked questions
Why does medical office cleaning cost more than office cleaning?
More of the work is disinfection. Disinfectants need contact (dwell) time on a surface before they work, so exam-room high-touch surfaces, waiting room seating and hard floors take longer per square foot than vacuuming an office. This estimate prices nightly high-touch disinfection and disinfectant mopping of the exam rooms on every visit, not a full disinfection of every surface.
What infection control should a medical cleaning bid cover?
At least disinfection of patient and exam rooms, high-touch surfaces in waiting areas, and restrooms; floors mopped with disinfectant; and medical waste emptied separately from regular trash. Cleaners need OSHA bloodborne pathogens training (29 CFR 1910.1030). Specialized work such as terminal cleaning of procedure rooms is usually priced as its own task.
Do dental offices cost the same as medical offices?
Use this page as the starting point for a dental office: the work is similar (operatories disinfected like exam rooms). Adjust the rooms and tasks in the full bid to the practice you walk through.
Is this medical office cleaning estimate a quote I can send?
No. It is a starting point priced from BidLoom's default areas and tasks for this building type and size. A real bid needs a walkthrough: the actual rooms, floor types, restroom count and the schedule the client wants. The free BidLoom account starts the full bid with these numbers filled in, lets you change every area, task and rate, and makes the PDF proposal.
Why is the price shown at a 30% margin?
A margin is profit as a share of the price: at 30%, a contract priced at $1,000 costs $700 to deliver. 30% is the margin a new BidLoom account starts every bid at; you can change it on any bid or in Settings. Markup, profit as a share of cost, is a different number: a 30% margin is about a 43% markup.