Minnesota
$60,000
Minnesota
$60,000
Calaveras County, CA
$195,000
San Antonio, TX
$295,000
Minnesota
$550,000
Wicomico County, MD
$199,000
Bartlett, IL
$299,000
Cleveland, OH
$250,000
St Pete, FL
$50,000
Los Angeles County, CA
$189,000
Miami, FL
$700,000
Available in Multiple Locations
$75,000
Miami-Dade County, FL
$1,520,000
Orange County, FL
$99,999
$125,000
Columbia, SC
Union County, NC
$280,000
Scottsdale, AZ
$390,000
Darrin Davenport
Common Ground Business Brokers
Serving Sacramento County, CA
Common Ground Business Brokers is a California wide business brokerage with offices and brokers through the state including Sacramento, San Francisco Bay Area, Orange County, San Diego and the greater Los Angeles area.
Kauai County, HI
$800,000
Philadelphia, PA
$275,000
Centre County, PA
$350,000
Garland, TX
$55,980
Surrey, BC
$860,000
Available in Multiple Locations
$75,000
Suffolk County, NY
$299,000
Orange County, FL
$930,000
$125,000
Virginia
Virginia
$750,000
Nashville, TN
$158,900
Sarasota County, FL
$2,300,000
Los Angeles County, CA
$4,300,000
St Thomas
$29,700
Kissimmee, FL
$125,000
Boston, MA
$149,900
Available Nationwide
$50,000
Hyattsville, MD
$295,000
Knoxville, TN
$149,899
$150,000
Bozeman, MT
Suffolk County, NY
$650,000
Davenport, FL
$149,900
Available Nationwide
$75,000
Suffolk County, NY
$599,900
Clermont, FL
$60,000
New Haven, CT
$524,999
Phoenix, AZ
$336,000
Jackson, NJ
$295,000
Jimmy Kelly
We Sell Restaurants
Serving Carroll County, GA
We Sell Restaurants is the nation’s largest business broker franchise focused exclusively on the sale of restaurants. With 20 years of experience, we have helped buy, sell and lease more hospitality locations nationwide than any other brand. We Sell Restaurants has carved an unparalleled niche in the industry as the nation's leading and only business broker franchise focused on restaurants. Formed over two decades ago, We Sell Restaurants is a vibrant and innovative company that operates in 45 states nationwide and delivers on the founder's vision to Sell More Restaurants Than Anyone Else. PERIOD. Our team achieves that mission by sharing a common set of core values that include: We know that Every Day is Game Day and We Act Accordingly We Treat Each Other, Our Clients and Internal Clients by the Golden Rule We Act with Integrity and Only Make Agreements We Are Willing and Able to Keep We Are the Brand and are Passionate about Sales Results We Create a Customer Service Experience Worth Sharing With top-flight experience crafted over decades of selling restaurants, along with previous expertise working in small businesses and in senior leadership roles for a Big 5 Accounting firm and a major Fortune 100 company, We Sell Restaurants leadership has deep financial, branding and marketing experience in restaurants, and small and big business. This collective experience allowed them to take the fragmented brokerage market and build a specialized practice for selling only restaurants with a systemic approach never before seen in the industry. We Sell Restaurants has recruited an experienced leadership team with experience spanning decades in business brokerage, franchise sales and customer service and operations.
Clearwater, FL
$170,000
Sanford, FL
$95,000
Irvine, MN
$524,999
Minneapolis, IN
$525,000
Available in Multiple Locations
$150,000
Arkansas
$270,000
Savannah, GA
$250,000
Brevard County, FL
$65,000
Buffalo, NY
$234,999
Boston, MA
$90,000
Blair County, PA
$550,000
Philadelphia, PA
$94,000
Topeka, KS
$185,000
Baltimore, UT
$234,999
Available Nationwide
$50,000
The cleaning industry plays a crucial role in maintaining cleanliness and hygiene across various sectors, including residential, commercial, and industrial environments. This industry has gained significant importance, especially in the wake of heightened awareness around health and sanitation following the Covid-19 pandemic.
Businesses in this industry are dominated by residential cleaning services, followed by commercial janitorial companies. Commercial janitorial businesses tend to command higher valuations thanks to their relatively predictable revenue streams, and resilience to macroeconomic factors.
If you are planning to buy or sell a cleaning or janitorial business, it is helpful to have some context on the market in terms of valuation metric and typical financial performance. To that end, we have aggregated and analyzed business for sale data in the cleaning industry to tease out average financials and valuation multiples based on asking prices.
Market Overview
Number of Businesses Analyzed |
636 |
Median Asking Price |
$250,000 |
Median Reported Revenue |
$499,348 |
Median Reported Earnings |
$152,000 |
Financials based on businesses that listed an asking price, annual revenue, and seller's discretionary earnings. |
Cleaning Business Valuation Multiples
Range |
Revenue |
Earnings (SDE) |
Lower Quartile |
0.31 |
1.15 |
Median |
0.67 |
2.10 |
Upper Quartile |
1.09 |
3.00 |
Revenue and earnings multiples based on reported revenue, seller's discretionary earnings, and asking price. |
Read the Report:
Cleaning & Janitorial Business Valuation Multiples and Financial Benchmarks
FAQs
How much does it cost to buy a cleaning business?
Prices vary depending on the size and sales of the business, but the median asking price for a cleaning business in the U.S. is $250,000.
How much do cleaning business owners earn?
Cleaning and janitorial business owners report median annual sales of $499,348 and annual owner earnings of $152,000. These figures are based on businesses that have listed their annual revenue and seller's discretionary earnings.
How do I value a cleaning business?
Valuing a cleaning business involves considering several factors, including annual sales, profit, growth (or decline) trends, stability of customer base, and economic trends in the local market. Brokers, business owners, and business buyers will typically rely on valuation multiples to gauge business value relative to similar businesses in the market. Revenue multiples among cleaning and janitorial businesses listed for sale across the U.S. range from 0.31 to 1.09, with the median at 0.67. Earnings multiples range from 1.15 to 3.00, with the median at 2.10. These values suggest a typical cleaning business may sell for around 0.67 times its annual revenue, and 2.1 times its annual owner’s earnings.
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