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Housekeeping Staffing
How many housekeepers tonight needs, how many minutes each room actually gets, and what an occupied room costs you.
The house today
What you actually have. Leave 0 to ignore.
Rooms sold out of total rooms.
The rest are stayovers. Checkouts take far longer.
How long a room takes
Full service 30 to 45. Select service 25 to 32.
Usually about half a checkout.
Breaks, briefing, stocking the cart, walking the floors. 12 to 18% is normal.
What it costs
Wage plus payroll taxes and benefits.
One inspector per 10 to 15 is common.
Laundry, soaps, paper, cleaning chemicals.
How this is calculated
Cleaning minutes = checkouts × checkout minutes + stayovers × stayover minutes.
Usable minutes per shift = shift hours × 60 − time not spent cleaning. Housekeepers needed = cleaning minutes ÷ usable minutes, rounded up.
Minutes per room is the credit each occupied room earns. Cost per occupied room = (housekeeping wages + supervisor wages + linen and amenities) ÷ rooms sold.
Monthly figures assume 30 days at tonight's occupancy. Change occupancy to see a slow week.
Prices are before GST/HST. Add tax on top of the price shown, never inside your margin. Estimates, not advice.
Short 1 housekeeper
With 5 on shift each room gets 22 minutes instead of 24.
- Rooms to clean
- 94 (42 out, 52 stay)
- Rooms each
- 15.7
- Minutes per room
- 24 min
- Cleaning hours needed
- 38.0 h
- Supervisors
- 1
- Cost per occupied room
- $17.52
- Labour only, per room
- $13.02
- Cost today
- $1,647
- Cost per month
- $49,410
Spare housekeepers on shift, at this wage, across a year, halved because some days need the cover.
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