Short-term rental cleaning fee calculator
Is my cleaning fee putting guests off?
Your result
Fee as a share of the stay
11.48%
Proportionate. Guests are unlikely to price-shop on this.
- $23.33
Full breakdown
- $23.33
- 11.48%
What this assumes
- Cost per night = turnover cost ÷ average stay.
- Share of the stay = turnover cost ÷ (rate × average stay + turnover cost) — the fee against everything the guest pays, fee included.
- Assumes you pass the whole turnover cost on. Absorbing part of it into the nightly rate lowers this share and raises the figure guests compare on.
- Where the platform shows a total price up front, guests react to the total; where it shows a nightly rate, a high fee surfaces late and reads as a surprise.
An estimate, not advice. It cannot know your market, your local rules or your tax position. Check the figures against your own booking data before acting on them.
How it works
This cleaning fee calculator shows what a short-term rental cleaning fee does to the price a guest sees. A cleaning fee is a pricing display problem more than a cost problem. The same fee is invisible on a week and punitive on one night, and it is the main reason a listing stops receiving short bookings without its nightly rate having changed.
This shows the fee two ways: what it adds to the effective nightly rate, and what share of the total it represents. The second is the one guests react to, because they compare on the nightly rate and decide on the total.
How the cleaning fee calculator works
It spreads your turnover cost over the average stay to give the cleaning fee per night: what the fee adds to the effective nightly rate. Then it sets the fee against the guest’s total price, every night plus the fee, because that total is what guests weigh when they decide. It works the same as an Airbnb cleaning fee calculator on any platform that shows a total.
A worked example of a cleaning fee
Take the example figures: a 70 turnover cost, three-night stays and a 180 nightly rate. The fee adds 70 ÷ 3 = 23.33 to each night. The guest’s total price is 180 × 3 + 70 = 610, so the fee is 70 ÷ 610 = 11.48% of it. On a one-night stay the same fee is 70 ÷ 250 = 28% of the total, which is why short stays make a cleaning fee look so much bigger.
Common questions
How much should I charge for a cleaning fee?
Start from what a turnover really costs you: the cleaner, laundry and consumables. Then use the calculator to see how that fee reads against the guest’s total for your typical stay and for your shortest one. The share is the part guests react to, more than the amount.
Is my cleaning fee too high?
Look at its share of the guest’s total price rather than the fee on its own. The calculator labels the share for your figures. A fee that is proportionate on a week can still be a large share of a one-night stay.
Why do short stays make a cleaning fee look bigger?
Because one fee is spread over fewer nights. With the example figures, the fee is 11.48% of a three-night stay and 28% of a one-night stay.
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