A private cleaner in Amsterdam charges €17–€25 per hour in 2026, and a registered cleaning company €25–€35, according to Trustoo's price guide. Expatistan's crowd-sourced index puts the going rate for cleaning help in the city at €18 an hour, and one-off jobs quoted through Werkspot run as high as €30.
Those three numbers frame every quote you'll get inside the A10 ring; what moves you within them is the booking route, the job scope, and a wage floor that rises every January.
What a cleaner costs in Amsterdam in 2026
Dutch cleaning is priced by the hour, so start with the hourly logic. Private help found through word of mouth or a neighbourhood group sits at €17–€25 an hour. A registered company — screened staff, liability insurance, an invoice with VAT on it — charges €25–€35. Platforms and job boards span the gap between those two bands, and one-off bookings price above regular arrangements — at least on Werkspot's published table, the only source here that breaks the price of an hour out by frequency.
Source: Expatistan's crowd-sourced cost index, 2026.
Reported by residents rather than measured by a statistics office — read it as the street price for informal help, not a wage fact.
An insured, registered business paying Dutch payroll costs can't sustain €18 an hour — the gap between that street price and a company invoice is the subject of the rest of this guide.
Private cleaner vs platform vs registered company
The route you book through moves the price more than the size of your flat does. On a platform such as Helpling, the cleaner sets their own hourly rate and stays self-employed; the platform handles payment, reviews and finding a replacement. Helpling no longer publishes a public price list, so we won't quote a from-price we can't evidence. Werkspot's published range for a one-off home clean is €16–€30. Companies hold the top band — and carry the most on their side of the deal.
| Booking route | Hourly rate in Amsterdam | What the money buys |
|---|---|---|
| Private cleaner, hired directly | €17–€25 (Trustoo) | The cheapest hour — but you do the screening, hold the keys, and cover the gaps when they're ill or on holiday |
| Platform (Helpling) | Set by the cleaner — Helpling publishes no price list to check it against | Payment, reviews and replacements handled; the cleaner is still self-employed, so cover for damage is thin |
| One-off job via Werkspot | €16–€30 (Werkspot) | Competing quotes from sole traders and small firms; screening and insurance vary with every bidder |
| Registered cleaning company | €25–€35 (Trustoo) | Vetted staff, liability insurance, a VAT invoice, and a replacement cleaner when your regular one is away |
The difference shows up on the bad days, not the good ones. When a private cleaner cracks the hob or stops answering messages, that is your problem to absorb. When it happens on a company's watch, it is the company's — which is what the extra €8–€10 an hour actually pays for.
Why Amsterdam cleaning prices keep rising
Cleaning wages in the Netherlands have a hard floor: the CAO Schoonmaak, the sector's collective labour agreement. On 1 January 2026 that floor rose 3%, plus an extra €0.10–€0.25 per hour depending on pay grade, per RAS, the body that administers the agreement. In May, employers and unions went further and agreed a new CAO worth just over 6% in additional pay rises along with full travel-cost reimbursement, per Schoonmakend Nederland, the employers' association. That travel clause costs the most where commutes are longest and parking is dearest — which is to say, here.
Those costs move straight into prices. Cleaning-sector prices were up 6.7% year on year in the fourth quarter of 2025, per CBS figures reported by trade magazine Facto — while turnover grew only slightly. The growth is in the price of an hour, not the number of hours sold.
Then there is Amsterdam itself. None of our sources breaks cleaning prices out city by city, so we can't put a number on the local premium. The inputs are no mystery, though: higher rents, higher wages, paid parking on every street — every input costs more inside the A10.
Typical totals by job type
Hourly rates are the mechanics; what you actually pay is a total. Trustoo's price guide puts a one-off deep clean at €250–€850, depending on the size and condition of the home. For end-of-tenancy cleaning nobody we can cite publishes totals at all, so the checkout bands below are our own sums — plausible hours multiplied by Werkspot's €16–€30 hourly range. Estimates rather than audited statistics: use them to sanity-check a quote, not to argue one down.
| Job | 2026 band | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|
| One-off deep clean | €250–€850 (Trustoo's price guide) | Size and condition; a neglected kitchen or bathroom alone can add hours |
| End of tenancy — studio or 1-bed apartment | €96–€180 — our estimate: six hours at Werkspot's €16–€30/hr | Checkout-standard scope: inside appliances, limescale, skirting boards |
| End of tenancy — family house | €192–€360 — our estimate: twelve hours at the same rates | Extra bathrooms and flights of stairs turn these into two-cleaner days |
What separates a deep clean from a weekly visit is scope, not effort — the task-by-task split lives in our comparison of deep cleaning vs. regular cleaning, and the visit itself books through our deep cleaning service. Leaving a rental? Amsterdam landlords inspect to the letter of the check-in report; our move-out cleaning checklist covers what they look for, and the job books as an end-of-tenancy clean — or a move-in/move-out clean if you'd rather arrive in a spotless place than just leave one behind.
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Calculate my price or call +31 615 098864One-off vs recurring: how frequency changes the hourly rate
The same cleaner costs less per hour the more often they come. That isn't goodwill; it's arithmetic. A kitchen cleaned two weeks ago is maintenance work, while a kitchen cleaned four months ago is recovery work, and recovery is slow work at the same standard.
You can read it straight off that Werkspot table: one-off jobs run to €30 an hour, the top of the private market, in part because a first visit to an unknown home typically gets scoped as a reset. A frequent regular slot on the same table prices at €16–€18: the crew knows the house, and the house never gets bad.
A recurring cleaning plan turns that logic into a discount you can see: our calculator prices a weekly visit 25% below a one-time clean for the same home, and it gives you the recurring number for your own place in under a minute.
Booking legally: cash-in-hand vs an insured company
Hiring a private cleaner directly is legal in the Netherlands — with conditions attached. Under the Regeling dienstverlening aan huis (Rijksoverheid), a cleaner working in your home fewer than four days a week doesn't make you a formal employer: no payroll registration, no tax withholding. But the scheme still obliges you to pay at least the statutory minimum wage plus holiday allowance, honour paid holiday hours, and keep paying for up to six weeks if your cleaner falls ill — and it leaves the cleaner without unemployment or disability cover unless they arrange their own. Cash over the counter with none of that agreed is an uninsured arrangement, on both sides. Our plain-English guide to hiring a cleaner legally walks through the rules in full.
A registered company moves all of it — contracts, insurance, sick cover, a vetted replacement when your regular cleaner is away — onto its own books. That, more than the cleaning itself, is where the €25–€35 goes.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a cleaner cost per hour in Amsterdam?
Private cleaners hired directly charge around €17–€25 per hour in Amsterdam, and registered cleaning companies charge €25–€35, according to Trustoo's price guide. Expatistan's crowd-sourced index puts the going rate for cleaning help at €18 per hour, and one-off jobs booked through platforms such as Werkspot run €16–€30 per hour.
How much does a deep clean cost in Amsterdam?
A one-off deep clean runs roughly €250–€850, according to Trustoo's price guide. Size and condition set where you land: a small, well-kept apartment sits near the bottom, and a neglected family house with years of build-up reaches the top. Given Amsterdam's higher costs, expect a quote that leans toward the upper half of the band.
What does an end-of-tenancy clean cost in Amsterdam?
No price list we can verify covers end-of-tenancy cleaning in Amsterdam, so work it out from hourly rates instead: at Werkspot's published €16–€30 per hour, a six-hour checkout clean on a studio or one-bed works out to €96–€180, and a family house needing twelve hours to €192–€360. Treat those as estimates, not quotes, and check the landlord's check-in report before you agree a scope.
Is it cheaper to hire a private cleaner than a cleaning company?
Per hour, yes — private help runs €17–€25 against €25–€35 for a registered company, per Trustoo. But the gap buys real obligations: under the Dutch Regeling dienstverlening aan huis you owe a directly hired cleaner at least minimum wage, holiday allowance and up to six weeks of sick pay, and no company stands behind the work if something breaks or your cleaner stops showing up.
Why is cleaning more expensive in Amsterdam than in the rest of the Netherlands?
Wages and costs. Cleaning wages rose 3% plus €0.10–€0.25 per hour on 1 January 2026 under the sector's CAO, the newly agreed CAO adds just over 6% more plus full travel-cost reimbursement, and CBS recorded cleaning prices up 6.7% year on year in the fourth quarter of 2025. Rents, wages and parking all cost more in Amsterdam than in the rest of the country, so those rises land hardest here.
Every band above is the market's answer; none of them is yours. Amsterdam quotes swing on floors, bathrooms, and how long it's been since the last proper clean — which is why we'd rather hand you a real number than a range. Run your own address through the calculator, or start from our home cleaning services and pick the visit that fits. Our Rotterdam and The Hague guides do the same job for the neighbouring cities. For how these prices compare beyond the Netherlands, our international house cleaning cost guide runs the same exercise in dollars.
