Commercial Cleaning Valuation Calculator
Cited Band
1.57x to 2.66x SDE (cleaning class sold quartiles)
Source: BizBuySell cleaning and janitorial benchmarks (sold listings)
Implied Range
$785,000 to $1,330,000
A band, not a price. Answer the drivers below to place this business inside it.
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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 every trade whose cited band is a multiple of one earnings figure; the 13 priced on cap rates, collections, revenue or two bases at once are named with their reasons rather than left out silently. Every cited band, with its drivers and source, is listed below on this page.
What Moves the Multiple
Reported EBITDA bands run near 3.4x to 4.1x; multi-year commercial contracts with escalators price toward the top, and top-five customer concentration above roughly 40% of revenue compresses the multiple or forces retention earnouts.
Band cited from BizBuySell cleaning and janitorial benchmarks (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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