Commercial Cleaning Business Valuation Calculator
Cited Band
1.57x to 2.66x SDE (cleaning class sold quartiles)
Source: BizBuySell cleaning and janitorial benchmarks (2021-2025 sold listings)
Implied Range
$785,000 to $1,330,000
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Where This One Sits
How much revenue recurs?
How concentrated are the customers?
What happens when the owner leaves for a month?
How clean are the books?
Do the licenses, leases and contracts transfer?
Nothing answered yet, so there is no reading. This does not default to the middle: a midpoint shown for a blank form would say your business is average when you have not told it anything.
The drivers that move the number in this trade specifically are in the full Commercial Cleaning guide. The picker holds the trades this site prices on one earnings figure. The other 13 are priced another way or on too thin a class, and each still appears with its cited band and source in Every Band, Cited.
What Moves the Multiple
Advisers quote EBITDA near 3.4x to 4.1x, a basis the cited sold data does not print; multi-year commercial contracts with escalators price toward the top, and concentration in a few customers compresses the multiple or ties part of the price to retention.
Band cited from BizBuySell cleaning and janitorial benchmarks (2021-2025 sold listings). What moves a business inside it, what licensing applies, and what diligence to run are in the Commercial Cleaning buy guide.
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