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Office Cleaning Services Singapore: The Full Rate Card, Scopes and Schedules

What does an office cleaning contract in Singapore actually cover?

An office cleaning contract is a fixed monthly fee for a fixed, scheduled scope: a set number of visits per month, a set crew size, a set session length, and a written task list. It is not an hourly hire, and it is not an open-ended promise to do whatever needs doing on the day. Everything on this page reflects how we actually price and invoice commercial cleaning work in Singapore.

A standard per-visit scope covers the things that degrade daily: bins emptied and relined, washrooms cleaned, sanitised and checked for restocking, pantry counters and sink washed down, meeting rooms reset, desk and shared table surfaces wiped where they are clear, floors vacuumed and mopped, glass doors and high-touch points spot-cleaned, and reception left presentable. Crews work to a checklist, not to a mood.

What is not in a standard contract by default: carpet extraction, external or facade window cleaning, post-renovation debris removal, disinfection fogging, high-level work needing ladders or scaffolding, and pantry consumable purchasing. These are quoted separately so the monthly fee stays honest rather than quietly padded, and each of them has its own published starting price further down this page.

On supplies, the split is simple: we bring our own equipment, machines, chemicals and cloths. Consumables that belong to your office – hand soap, toilet paper, bin liners, pantry stock – are usually supplied by you unless we quote them in. Ask for it in writing either way, because this single line is where two office quotes can differ by a meaningful amount without either one saying so.

The last structural piece is the attendance window. A contract states which days the crew attends and roughly what time, because an office cleaned at 7pm behaves very differently from one cleaned at 11am with thirty people at their desks. Scope, crew size, session length and schedule are the four variables that make a monthly figure mean something – a price without all four attached is not comparable to anything.

What happens weekly, monthly and quarterly under a proper contract?

Every serious office contract has two layers. The per-visit layer is what happens on each scheduled attendance – bins, washrooms, pantry, floors, glass, meeting rooms. The periodic layer is work that does not need doing every visit but absolutely needs doing on a cycle, and it is the layer that thin quotes silently delete.

Typical monthly periodic tasks: inside of the microwave and fridge, pantry cabinet fronts, skirting boards, door frames and door tops, air-con vent faces and grilles, chair bases and castors, and detail work on partition glass edges. Typical quarterly tasks: high dusting above eye level, light diffusers, blind slats, storage room floors, and a full pantry strip-down.

The reason this matters commercially is that an office does not look dirty from the per-visit list being missed – it looks dirty from the periodic list being missed. Dust rings on vent faces, greasy pantry cabinet handles and a scaly washroom tap say more about a cleaning contract than the bins do, and they are exactly what a visiting client notices.

There is also a wear argument. Skirtings, vent grilles and chair castors that are never detailed do not simply look neglected; they hold dust that recirculates every time the air-con starts, which is the most common complaint we hear from offices that have just switched vendors.

When you compare quotes, ask each vendor to write the periodic list into the contract with a stated frequency. If a quote only lists per-visit tasks, you are comparing an incomplete scope against a complete one, and the cheaper number is cheaper for a reason you will discover in month three rather than week one.

How much does office cleaning cost in Singapore, honestly?

Here are our real numbers, taken from how we actually invoice office work rather than from a brochure. The pattern is consistent and boring, which is exactly what you want from a service you buy every month.

Our published floor is $350/month* for a recurring office contract. Most SME offices invoice between $360 and $400/month* – $360 is the most common figure on our rate card and $400 sits at the median. That band typically buys a small-to-mid CBD or business-park office with one washroom set, a pantry, a meeting room and an open-plan floor, cleaned on a regular weekly or fortnightly rhythm.

Larger offices start from $690/month*. The upper quartile of our office pricing sits at $800/month*, and the highest office figure on our rate card is $1,900/month* – a multi-zone site with heavier headcount, more washrooms and more frequent attendance.

Notice what is absent: no hourly rate and no per-square-foot rate. We do not sell commercial cleaning by the hour, because an hour of a crew who already know your floor plan, your washroom stock and your access rules is not the same product as an hour of a stranger. We price the deployment and the outcome, and we publish the bands so you can budget before anyone visits.

Every figure on this page carries a trailing asterisk for the same reason: these are genuine starting points from invoiced work, not fixed prices. Site conditions, frequency and access window move the final number. Broader household and one-off pricing sits on our Singapore cleaning prices page.

Why do per-square-foot office cleaning quotes mislead?

Per-square-foot pricing sounds precise and objective. It is neither. Floor area is a weak predictor of cleaning labour, because the work is concentrated in a small fraction of the area: washrooms, pantry, bins, meeting rooms and high-touch points. Two offices of identical size can differ by a factor of two in real labour.

Take two 2,000 sq ft units as an illustration. A design studio with 6 people, one washroom and a coffee machine is a fundamentally lighter job than a sales floor with 30 people, two washroom sets, a hot-food pantry and daily client walk-ins. Same area. Very different bin volume, washroom load and reset time. A per-sqft formula charges them the same, and the vendor then has to cut corners on whichever one loses money.

Per-sqft quotes also hide the two variables that actually decide the price: frequency and crew size. A rate expressed in cents per square foot tells you nothing about whether you are getting one cleaner twice a week or two cleaners five times a week, which is the difference between two completely different services.

We price on headcount, washroom count, pantry type, frequency, session length and access window. That is why we can publish a rate card with real bands instead of a formula that has to be renegotiated the moment a site visit happens.

What does the full Sureclean office cleaning rate card look like?

The table below is the complete commercial rate card – recurring contracts, prepaid blocks, ad-hoc cleaners, team deployments, and the project work offices commonly bolt on. Every figure carries a trailing asterisk because they are genuine starting points from invoiced work, not fixed prices.

Read it as a shortlist tool. If your requirement lands inside a published band, you can budget with confidence before you speak to anyone. If it lands outside, that is a conversation about scope rather than a haggle about rates.

Three things move a from-price upward in practice: frequency (more visits per month is the single biggest driver), washroom count (each additional washroom set adds fixed minutes to every single visit), and access constraints (escorted access, lift bookings or a narrow after-hours window all add unproductive time to the deployment).

Two things move it downward: committing to a schedule rather than booking ad-hoc, and prepaying a block rather than paying month to month. Both are shown explicitly in the table so you can see the difference rather than being told it exists.

How often should your office be cleaned, by headcount and office type?

Frequency is the single biggest cost lever, so set it deliberately. As a working rule: under 10 staff with a light pantry – fortnightly or weekly. 10 to 30 staff – weekly, moving to twice weekly if there are two washroom sets or daily client visits. 30 or more staff, or any office where food is prepared and eaten on site – three times weekly to daily.

Office type shifts the answer as much as headcount. Professional services offices with private washrooms inside the unit need higher washroom frequency than open-plan tech offices using shared building toilets. Showrooms and client-facing receptions need glass and floors more often than back-office operations. Warehouses with an attached office need floors far more often than desks.

The most common mistake we see is buying daily attendance and skipping the periodic list. If budget is tight, a well-specified weekly visit with a proper monthly and quarterly cycle beats a rushed daily visit with no periodic work at all. Smaller teams sizing their first contract should start with our guide to office cleaning for small businesses in Singapore.

Frequency is not permanent. A contract can start fortnightly and step up to weekly when headcount grows, or step down after a team moves to hybrid working. We would rather adjust the schedule at review than have you overbuy on day one and quietly resent the invoice.

Service	What it covers	From*	Notes
Recurring office contract (entry)	Scheduled per-visit scope plus monthly and quarterly periodic tasks	From $350/month*	Our published floor for a recurring office contract
Typical SME office band	Small to mid office: open-plan floor, pantry, meeting room, one washroom set	$360-$400/month*	The most common band on our rate card – $360 most common, $400 the median
Larger office	Higher headcount, multiple washroom sets, multi-zone floor, higher frequency	From $690/month*	Upper quartile of our office pricing sits at $800/month*
Top of the office rate card	Multi-zone site, heavy headcount, frequent attendance	$1,900/month*	The highest office figure we publish – shown for reference, not as a cap
Prepaid 6-month weekly block	About 25 weekly sessions, paid upfront	$1,750-$1,900*	Per session is derived: $1,750 divided by 25 = $70*; $1,900 divided by 24 = about $79*
Ad-hoc cleaner, weekday	One cleaner, session of up to 3-4 hours	$150 per cleaner*	No lock-in; ideal for a trial session or an irregular reset
Ad-hoc cleaner, Saturday	One cleaner, session of up to 3-4 hours	$200 per cleaner*	Weekend rate; contract clients get weekend slots inside the monthly fee
Ad-hoc cleaner, Sunday	One cleaner, session of up to 3-4 hours	$250 per cleaner*	Subject to crew availability – book early
Team deployment: 2 cleaners x 4 hours	Small team job – office reset, light move-out, quarterly detail	$450*	Derived: $450 divided by 8 cleaner-hours = about $56 per cleaner-hour
Team deployment: 3 cleaners x 4 hours	Half-day team job on a larger floor	$550*	Derived: $550 divided by 12 cleaner-hours = about $46 per cleaner-hour
Team deployment: 3 cleaners x 8 hours	Full-day team job – office move, landlord handover, full-floor reset	$950*	Derived: $950 divided by 24 cleaner-hours = about $40 per cleaner-hour
One-time office deep clean	Inside cabinets and appliances, high dusting, vents, blinds, skirting, washroom descaling, floor machine work	$500-$1,150*	Common before a contract starts, before an audit, or at year-end
Commercial post-renovation cleaning	Construction dust removal, multi-pass detailing, vents, tracks, seams, protective film removal	$650-$2,000*	A different job from office cleaning – never fold it into a contract visit
Commercial disinfection	NEA-approved products, full-surface and high-touch treatment	From $265*	Typically $370-$475* per session; 30-day and 365-day protection plans available
Office carpet cleaning	Deep extraction of carpet tiles or broadloom, spot treatment, deodorising	Quoted by floor area	After-hours sessions available so carpets dry overnight

Contract, prepaid block or ad-hoc cleaners – which fits your office?

A monthly contract is the right answer for any office with predictable ongoing needs. From $350/month*, you get the same crew, a fixed scope, a fixed schedule and replacement cover when someone is on leave. It is the only structure where the crew learns your floor plan, and that familiarity is most of the quality.

A prepaid block suits offices that want the lowest per-session rate and can commit ahead. A 6-month weekly block runs $1,750-$1,900* for about 25 sessions. The per-session figure is simply that block divided by the sessions: $1,750 ÷ 25 = $70 per session*, and at the top of the range $1,900 ÷ 24 = about $79 per session*. Treat roughly $70-$79 per session* as derived arithmetic on the block price, not a separately bookable rate.

Ad-hoc bookings are for genuinely irregular needs: a quarterly reset, cover during a renovation, an office move, or a one-off before an audit or client visit. Rates are per cleaner for a session of up to 3-4 hours – $150 weekday*, $200 Saturday*, $250 Sunday*. Straightforward, no lock-in, and no pretence that it works out cheaper per visit than a contract.

If you are unsure, start ad-hoc. Book one session, see the standard, then convert to a contract or a prepaid block. There is no lock-in on a first booking, and our Happiness Guarantee means that if you are not happy with the work, we re-clean it free.

How do team deployments work for larger offices and one-off jobs?

When a job is too big for a single cleaner in a single session – an office move, a large floor reset, a landlord handover, a heavy quarterly – we quote it as a team deployment: a stated number of cleaners for a stated number of hours, priced as one line.

The published tiers are 2 cleaners x 4 hours at $450*, 3 cleaners x 4 hours at $550*, and 3 cleaners x 8 hours at $950*. If you want to compare them like for like, divide each price by its cleaner-hours: $450 ÷ 8 = about $56, $550 ÷ 12 = about $46, $950 ÷ 24 = about $40. So the tiers work out to roughly $40-$56 per cleaner-hour – our own arithmetic on the published prices, shown for comparison only. It is not a bookable hourly rate.

The per-hour figure improves as the deployment gets larger because mobilisation, transport and supervision are spread across more productive hours. That is the entire reason the biggest tier looks cheapest per hour, and it is worth knowing when you are deciding whether to split a job across two visits or do it in one.

Team deployments are also how you compress downtime. A 3 x 8 job finishes in one working day what a single cleaner would spread across a fortnight, which matters enormously when the office has to be usable on Monday morning or a lease handover date is fixed. For team jobs we agree the task list, the sequence and the finish standard in advance, and we confirm who signs off on completion – ambiguity about what ‘done’ means is the only thing that ever causes a dispute.

Can you clean after office hours, at night, or on weekends?

Yes, and for most offices it is the better arrangement. Cleaning around occupied desks is slower and more disruptive; cleaning an empty floor is faster, more thorough and invisible to your team. After-hours and before-hours slots are standard on our office contracts and are the default request for client-facing offices.

Weekend attendance is available and priced accordingly on ad-hoc work: $200 per cleaner on Saturday* and $250 per cleaner on Sunday*, each for a session of up to 3-4 hours. On recurring contracts, weekend scheduling is built into the monthly fee rather than surcharged per visit, so the number you approve is the number you pay.

Two practical constraints shape the schedule. First, your building’s after-hours access rules – some MCSTs and building managements require registered contractors, escorted access, or lift bookings after a certain hour. Second, air-conditioning: floors dry slowly and washrooms stay humid when the building air-con is off, so we sequence wet work accordingly and leave mopped areas last.

Our office hours are 9am-6pm, 7 days a week for coordination and quoting, and same-day slots are possible if you book before 11:30 AM – useful when a client visit lands on you with no notice.

What must a proper commercial cleaning quote specify?

Use this as a checklist against every quote you receive, including ours. A commercial quote that cannot answer these in writing is not a quote, it is a number.

Scope – the per-visit task list and the periodic list with stated frequencies. Crew size – how many cleaners attend, not just how many hours are billed. Session length – the attendance window, and what happens if the work overruns. Schedule – which days, which times, and how many visits per month, stated as a number rather than ‘regularly’.

Supplies – who provides equipment, chemicals and consumables. Replacement cover – what happens when your regular cleaner is on leave or medical leave, and whether the replacement is briefed on your site. Insurance – public liability cover and whether workers are properly covered. Licensing – NEA licensing for cleaning businesses in Singapore is not optional, and you should see it named in the document.

Price validity and revision terms – how long the rate holds, and what triggers a re-quote (headcount growth, added floor area, changed frequency). Get these in writing and the annual renewal conversation becomes administrative instead of adversarial.

Sureclean is NEA-licensed and insured, operating since 2013, with 50,000+ Singapore homes and workplaces cleaned and a 4.9-star rating across 1,507+ Google reviews. More procurement questions are answered on our cleaning services FAQ.

How do you handle building access, security passes and confidentiality?

Access is the operational detail that decides whether an office contract runs smoothly or generates weekly phone calls. We set it up once, at onboarding, and document it. The three common models are key or access card held by the crew, escorted access by your staff or building security, and keypad or smart lock with a dedicated code that you can revoke at any time.

For buildings that require contractor registration, we supply the details your management office needs – company registration, insurance, worker identification – and we register named crew rather than rotating unfamiliar faces through your reception. Where lift bookings, loading bay slots or after-hours permits apply, we work inside your building’s rules rather than around them.

On confidentiality: crews are briefed that paper on desks, whiteboards and screens are not touched. Clear-desk items are wiped; documents are not moved, stacked or read. Server rooms, secure storage and directors’ offices can be marked as no-entry zones or scheduled for escorted cleaning only, and that marking sits in the same document as the task list so it survives a crew change.

If your office loses or changes a card or code, tell us and we re-issue on our side the same day. Access should be revocable in one action, never dependent on chasing an individual.

What do offices book on top of a cleaning contract?

One-time office deep clean – $500-$1,150*. The full reset: inside cabinets and appliances, high dusting, vents, blinds, skirting, washroom descaling, floor machine work and a detailed pantry strip-down. Offices book this before a contract starts, before an audit or investor visit, at year-end, or after a long stretch with no proper cleaning.

Commercial post-renovation cleaning – $650-$2,000*. Construction dust is a different job from office cleaning: fine particulate settles into every horizontal surface, vent, track and seam, and needs multiple passes plus proper extraction. Never let a renovation handover be absorbed into a normal contract visit – see post-renovation cleaning for how the process works.

Commercial disinfection – from $265*, typically $370-$475* per session. NEA-approved products, with 30-day and 365-day antimicrobial protection plans available. Offices book this after a confirmed illness cluster, ahead of a return-to-office date, or as a scheduled quarterly measure. Full details on disinfection services.

Office carpet cleaning – quoted by floor area, with after-hours sessions available so carpets dry overnight and the floor is usable the next morning. Carpet is the single largest reservoir of dust and odour in most offices and is almost never inside a standard contract scope. See carpet cleaning services in Singapore.

How do you get an exact quote for your office?

Send us six things and you will get a real number rather than a range: office address and approximate floor area, staff headcount, number of washrooms inside your unit, pantry type (drinks only, or food prepared and eaten on site), preferred frequency, and your access window – during office hours, after hours, or weekend.

With those six details we can usually quote the same day over WhatsApp. For larger offices, multi-zone floors, or anything involving a team deployment, we will arrange a short site visit first – it is the difference between a quote that holds and a quote that gets revised in month two.

Message +65 6983 9523 on WhatsApp. We operate 9am-6pm, 7 days a week, and same-day slots are possible if you book before 11:30 AM. Every clean is backed by our Happiness Guarantee: if you are not happy with the work, we re-clean it free.

If you already have a competing quote in hand, send it across. We will tell you plainly where the scopes differ – per-visit list, periodic list, crew size, visit count – so you are comparing like with like before you sign anything.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much does office cleaning cost per month in Singapore?

Sureclean office cleaning contracts start from $350/month*, and most Singapore SME offices sit between $360 and $400/month*. Larger offices start from $690/month*, with the upper quartile at $800/month* and the highest office figure on our rate card at $1,900/month*. The final number depends on headcount, washroom count, pantry type, frequency and access window rather than floor area alone.

Do you charge an hourly rate for office cleaning?

No. We do not sell commercial cleaning by the hour. Recurring work is priced as a fixed monthly fee from $350/month*, one-off cleaner bookings are priced per cleaner per session, and larger jobs are priced as team deployments of a stated crew size for a stated number of hours.

How much is a one-off office cleaning session?

A one-off cleaner is $150 weekday*, $200 Saturday* and $250 Sunday* per cleaner, for a session of up to 3-4 hours. For larger one-off jobs we quote team deployments: 2 cleaners x 4 hours at $450*, 3 cleaners x 4 hours at $550*, and 3 cleaners x 8 hours at $950*. A full one-time office deep clean, covering appliances, high dusting, vents and floor machine work, runs $500-$1,150*.

Why don't you quote office cleaning per square foot?

Because floor area is a weak predictor of cleaning labour. Two offices of identical size can differ by a factor of two in real work depending on headcount, washroom count and whether food is prepared on site. A 2,000 sq ft office with 6 staff and one washroom is a far lighter job than a 2,000 sq ft office with 30 staff, two washroom sets and a hot-food pantry, so we price on those variables instead.

Is it cheaper to prepay for office cleaning?

Yes. A prepaid 6-month weekly block runs $1,750-$1,900* for about 25 sessions. Dividing the block by the sessions gives the per-session figure: $1,750 divided by 25 is $70 per session*, and $1,900 divided by 24 is about $79 per session*, which is a lower per-session rate than paying month to month. It also clears the whole engagement in a single purchase order.

Can you clean our office after hours or on weekends?

Yes, and for most offices it produces a better result, because cleaning an empty floor is faster and more thorough than working around occupied desks. After-hours and before-hours slots are standard on our contracts. Weekend ad-hoc rates are $200 per cleaner on Saturday* and $250 per cleaner on Sunday*, while weekend scheduling on a recurring contract is built into the monthly fee rather than surcharged per visit.

What should a commercial cleaning quote include before I sign?

Insist on nine items in writing: the per-visit task list, the periodic task list with stated frequencies, crew size, session length, number of visits per month, who supplies equipment and consumables, replacement cover when your regular cleaner is absent, insurance and NEA licensing, and how long the price holds. A quote missing the periodic list is not cheaper – it is smaller, and you will notice within two months.

How do you handle office access, security passes and confidential documents?

Access is set up once at onboarding using whichever model your building allows: crew-held key or access card, escorted access by your staff or security, or a dedicated keypad code you can revoke at any time. We register named crew with building management rather than rotating unfamiliar faces through reception. Crews are briefed never to move, stack or read documents, and server rooms or directors' offices can be marked as no-entry or escorted-only zones.

*All prices shown are “from” prices for guidance only and are subject to change without notice. Commercial pricing depends on site size, scope, frequency, crew size and access — we confirm an exact written quote on WhatsApp (+65 6983 9523) after a site visit, before any contract starts.