Recurring office cleaning in the Netherlands costs €2.50–€6.00 per square metre per month, according to De Haan FD Groep's office-cleaning price guide — and offices that only need a weekly clean typically pay €1.70–€2.80 per m² per month on Schoonmaak Totaal's published rate card. That works out to roughly €340–€560 a month for a 200 m² office cleaned weekly, and €2,500–€6,000 a month for a 1,000 m² office, depending on schedule and scope.
Those ranges are wide because they have to cover everything from a four-desk suite to a distribution office with six restrooms. This guide narrows them to your building: the full rate table, three worked example quotes, and the seven factors an estimator weighs before writing your number. Short on time? Jump straight to the cost table, or send us your floor area for a fixed monthly price.
What does office cleaning cost in 2026?
Most Dutch offices pay €2.50–€6.00 per square metre per month for recurring cleaning, per De Haan FD Groep's guide — a rate card published for 2025, so with January's CAO wage rise, treat its bottom edge as optimistic for a 2026 quote; a weekly-only schedule prices at €1.70–€2.80 per m² per month on Schoonmaak Totaal's rate card. On a 500 m² office that means roughly €850–€1,400 a month for weekly service, and €2,000–€3,000 on a daily schedule.
The table below turns those per-square-metre bands into monthly budgets. Two notes on reading it: the weekly-service column multiplies Schoonmaak Totaal's weekly-clean rate straight across your floor area, and the daily-service column applies the €4.00–€6.00 daily end of De Haan FD Groep's band — the guide splits its €2.50–€6.00 range into weekly schedules at €2.50–€4.00 and daily schedules at €4.00–€6.00.
| Office size | ≈ Monthly, weekly service (€1.70–€2.80 per m²) | ≈ Monthly, daily service (€4.00–€6.00 per m²) |
|---|---|---|
| 100–500 m² | €170–€1,400 | €400–€3,000 |
| 500–1,000 m² | €850–€2,800 | €2,000–€6,000 |
| 1,000+ m² | €1,700+ | €4,000+ |
Notice what frequency does to the math: on De Haan's own split, five visits a week costs roughly one and a half times weekly service (€4.00–€6.00 against €2.50–€4.00 per square metre), not five times as much. A daily crew never faces more than one day of buildup — bins half full, carpet lightly tracked — so each visit is short. A Friday-only office hands the crew five days of coffee rings, kitchen mess, and carpet grit in one long visit, and pays for every minute of it.
The benchmark band
€2.50–€6.00per square metre, per month — the going range for recurring office cleaning in the Netherlands, per De Haan FD Groep's price guide, published for 2025; CAO indexation puts 2026 quotes at or above it. Offices on a weekly-only schedule typically pay €1.70–€2.80 per m² per month, per Schoonmaak Totaal.
Per square metre, per hour, per visit — the 3 pricing models explained
Commercial cleaning is quoted three ways: per square metre per month (€2.50–€6.00), per hour (€25–€35 for a registered cleaning company, per Trustoo's price guide), or per visit. Recurring contracts nearly always settle into a fixed monthly price built on the square-metre model.
Per square metre is the estimator's base unit for recurring work. It assumes a known scope on a known schedule, and it rewards simple space: a large open floor plate with hard floors sits near the bottom of the band, while a warren of small rooms, dense desks, and multiple restrooms drifts toward the top.
Per hour — €25–€35 for a registered company, rising to €25–€40 per cleaner on intensive one-off jobs, per Trustoo — shows up on one-time work: post-event resets, first-visit recovery cleans (a one-off deep clean runs €250–€850 depending on size and condition), anything where the state of the space is a mystery until the crew walks in. On job platforms such as Werkspot, one-off cleaning work lists at €16–€30 per hour. When we can't see a space in advance, hourly pricing protects both sides; once the building is known, we would always rather fix the price.
Per visit, usually rolled up into a flat monthly figure, is what you actually sign. It's the square-metre math with a trip minimum on top: the van, the crew, and the load-in cost the same whether your suite is 120 or 400 square metres, which is why very small offices sit at the top of the per-square-metre band. A fixed monthly figure also ends the visit-to-visit invoice lottery — the schedule is set, so the price stops moving.
Anatomy of a quote: three worked examples
A quote is just rates multiplied by your building: a 200 m² office on weekly service prices out around €450 a month at €2.25 per square metre — mid-band on the weekly rate card. The three quotes below are illustrative worked examples built entirely from the published benchmark rates, not real contracts, but the arithmetic is exactly how estimators work.
Example 1 — 200 m² professional suite, cleaned weekly
Small suites land mid-to-high in the €1.70–€2.80 band because of the trip minimum. At €2.25 per square metre, the month prices at about €450 — squarely inside the weekly-clean band for this size — and each visit at roughly €105. The visit itself splits four ways: restrooms first so the cleaner can return after the disinfectant has had its dwell time, then trash and touchpoints, the kitchenette, and floors last, vacuuming toward the door.
Example 2 — 1,000 m² single-tenant office, five nights a week
This is the profile where the daily end of De Haan FD Groep's band applies: €4,000–€6,000 a month at €4.00–€6.00 per square metre. Here is how a €4,000 month might split into line items (an illustrative allocation, not a rate card):
| Line item | What it covers | Share of a €4,000 month |
|---|---|---|
| Nightly janitorial | Trash and recycling, touchpoint wipe-down, restroom service, spot-vacuuming of traffic lanes | €2,900 |
| Floor-care rotation | Full vacuum and hard-floor mopping, alternating zones each night | €500 |
| Weekly detail | Kitchen deep-wipe, interior glass and partition doors, high and low dusting | €330 |
| Consumables | Can liners, restroom paper, hand soap | €270 |
| Total | Fixed monthly price | €4,000 |
The nightly line dominates because it is the service — everything else is a rotation layered on top so the building never needs a rescue clean.
Example 3 — 3,000 m² floor plates, five nights plus a day porter
Straight-line scaling from the 1,000 m² example says €12,000–€18,000 a month — treat that as a ceiling, not a bid. Larger buildings amortize the fixed costs: one supply closet, one alarm code, one supervisor across three floors, so real proposals usually land near the bottom of the per-square-metre band. Two things push the other way: a specialty tenant, such as a clinic or a lab, can expect quotes above the standard office band, because disinfection protocols and compliance logs slow every zone the crew touches, and a daytime porter covering the lobby, restrooms, and conference-room turnarounds is its own labor line on top of the night crew.
Before you request quotes, have five things ready. They are the difference between a fixed number in one business day and a week of we'll-get-back-to-you:
- Your cleanable floor area in square metres, from the lease or floor plan — not a guess; bids built on bad floor-area numbers get re-priced after the walkthrough
- Restroom count, with fixtures per restroom — estimators bid restrooms by fixture count, not floor area, because a six-stall restroom takes triple the time of a single-toilet washroom
- The schedule you want: which days, and whether crews clean after hours or around your staff
- Your flooring mix — a rough split of carpet versus hard floor changes the equipment loaded on the cart and the pace of the visit
- Access details: alarm procedure, badges, freight-elevator hours, and any secure rooms crews must skip
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Frequency, restroom load, flooring, facility type, access, desk density, and consumables decide where you land inside the €2.50–€6.00 band. Two offices with identical floor areas routinely land at opposite ends of it on these alone.
- Cleaning frequency. The biggest lever on the page. More visits raise the monthly total but cut the per-visit price, because maintenance visits are short and recovery visits are long. If a bid feels high, ask what the per-visit price does one step up in frequency — the answer often surprises.
- Restroom and kitchen load. Fixtures drive minutes far more than floor area does. Every extra stall, sink, and urinal is scrubbed, disinfected, and restocked on every single visit, and every kitchen adds a daily reset.
- Flooring mix. High-pile carpet vacuums slowly; polished concrete mops fast. Grouted tile, winter entrance matting, and vinyl that needs periodic burnishing each add minutes per visit or a separate floor-care line.
- Facility type. Standard office space sits at €2.50–€6.00 per square metre per month; for medical or industrial space, expect quotes above that band, because disinfection protocols, compliance logs, and specialized chemicals slow every task.
- Access and schedule. After-hours crews need key control and an alarm procedure — a small administrative cost. Daytime cleaning is the expensive version: crews work around meetings and occupied desks, and the same scope takes visibly longer.
- Desk density and desk policy. An office that clears its desks cleans dramatically faster. Wiping thirty clear desks is one task; thirty desks of papers, cables, and mugs is thirty separate negotiations.
- Consumables. Can liners, restroom paper, and soap either appear as a line item or hide inside the rate. Neither is wrong — but make the quote say which, or two bids aren't comparable.
A bid far below the others usually isn't generosity — it's a scope exclusion you haven't found yet. The vetting questions in our guide to choosing a commercial cleaning company are built to surface it before you sign.
What's standard scope — and what counts as an add-on?
Standard recurring scope covers trash and recycling, restrooms, touchpoints, floors, and the kitchen or breakroom. Carpet extraction, window washing, floor stripping and waxing, and construction cleanup are priced as separate add-ons.
The add-on list isn't fine print — it's where quote-shock lives. If a proposal comes in oddly cheap, compare its scope line by line against the others; something you assumed was standard has usually moved to the add-on column. Our office cleaning service publishes its scope up front for exactly this reason: comparing quotes only works when everyone defines "clean" the same way.
One category never lives in recurring scope: incidents. A weekend pipe leak, a break-in with glass across the lobby — that is an emergency cleaning call-out, dispatched and priced separately from your contract.
How contracts and frequency change the math
Higher frequency and longer terms pull the per-visit price down — but in the Netherlands the number that moves your contract most is the CAO. Cleaning wages are set sector-wide: they rose 3% plus €0.10–€0.25 per hour on 1 January 2026 under the RAS CAO wage schedule, and the accord agreed in May adds more than 6% across 2026–2028 plus full travel reimbursement. Those costs reach every invoice: CBS figures reported by Facto put cleaning-sector price rises at 6.7% year-on-year in the fourth quarter — so expect an indexation clause in any multi-year contract.
The same wage math is why hiring in-house rarely wins. The wage itself is the same CAO wage either way; what builds the fully loaded figure is everything wrapped around it: payroll taxes, benefits, equipment and supplies, supervision, training, and covering every vacation and sick day with someone. An outsourced contract prices all of that in and usually still lands lower, because crews and equipment amortize across many buildings instead of one.
Frequency deserves the same scrutiny as rate. The right cadence depends on headcount, visitor traffic, and how hybrid your week is — our guide to how often an office should be cleaned maps cadence to office profile. Once cadence is set, push for a fixed monthly price rather than per-visit billing; it's the same structure as our recurring cleaning plans, and it turns the office-cleaning budget into a single predictable line.
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to clean an office per square metre?
Recurring office cleaning in the Netherlands runs €2.50–€6.00 per square metre per month, per De Haan FD Groep's price guide — published for 2025, so CAO indexation puts a 2026 quote at or above its bottom edge; offices on a weekly-only schedule typically pay €1.70–€2.80 per m² per month on Schoonmaak Totaal's rate card. Small offices land near the top of the band; large, simple floor plates land near the bottom.
How much do commercial cleaners charge per hour?
Registered cleaning companies charge €25–€35 per hour, per Trustoo's price guide, rising to €25–€40 per hour per cleaner for intensive one-off jobs. Hourly pricing usually appears on one-time work — post-event resets, first-visit recovery cleans — where the condition of the space is unknown until the crew walks in. Recurring contracts convert to a fixed monthly price once the building is known.
How much does office cleaning cost per month?
Multiply the per-square-metre bands by your floor area: a 100–500 m² office on weekly service budgets roughly €170–€1,400 a month at Schoonmaak Totaal's €1.70–€2.80 rate, and a 1,000 m² office runs €2,500–€6,000 a month across De Haan FD Groep's full €2.50–€6.00 band, depending on frequency and scope.
Is it cheaper to hire an in-house cleaner instead?
Rarely, once the full cost is counted. Cleaning wages are set sector-wide by the cleaning CAO — they rose 3% plus €0.10–€0.25 per hour on 1 January 2026, and the new accord adds more than 6% across 2026–2028 plus full travel reimbursement. An in-house hire carries those increases alone, on top of payroll taxes, benefits, equipment, supervision, and covering every vacation and sick day; an outsourced contract spreads all of that across many buildings.
Why do small offices pay more per square metre?
Trip minimums. The van, the crew, the load-in, and the setup cost the same whether the suite is 120 or 400 square metres, so those fixed costs spread across fewer square metres. That is why small offices price near the top of the per-square-metre band while big floor plates sit near the bottom.
Office cleaning is one of the few facility line items where the market rate is genuinely public: €2.50–€6.00 per square metre a month, €1.70–€2.80 for weekly-only schedules, €25–€35 an hour — every range above is published and checkable. Your building's exact number takes one email with floor area, restroom count, and a schedule. Pricing a school rather than an office? Our school cleaning guide runs the same published bands through a 2,000 m² classroom building. And if the space you're pricing is a home office rather than a commercial suite, our guide to house cleaning costs in 2026 covers those rates instead.
