Cleaning business profitability — share one real job or monthly snapshot (numbers + what moved your margin)

Are you running or thinking about a cleaning company? Please post one recent job or a single-month snapshot with these fields so others can compare local benchmarks: 1) Market: residential or commercial; 2) Avg ticket (per job or per site) and frequency; 3) Pricing method: hourly / flat / contract (include rates); 4) Labor cost % (wages + taxes/benefits vs. revenue); 5) Net margin (after all expenses); 6) The one change that raised profit most (pricing, route optimization, retention, upsells, automation, etc.); 7) City (for local benchmarking). Note any big one-offs (insurance, materials, seasonal promos). If you’re comfortable, say whether figures are owner-operator or multi-team. No need for exact names — anonymized numbers are perfect. If the community shares a few dozen entries I’ll help organize anonymized benchmarks, simple rate-sheet templates, and a margin-calculator outline others can reuse. Please stick to real numbers and first-hand results only.