The free Cleanup Price Calculator
Ask an AI or a blog and you get a range so wide it is useless. The real answer depends on five knowable things: how many months are behind, how many transactions run through the business, how many bank and card accounts feed it, and what kind of mess is waiting. This calculator does that arithmetic from the published bands — cleanup work at $150–$1,200+ per month of backlog, billed hourly at $75–$150/hr when it is billed hourly at all (guides checked October 2026).
Tell it how far behind the books are, how busy the business is, how many accounts feed the mess, and what kind of mess it is. It answers with a price range grounded in the published cleanup band — $150–$1,200+ per month of backlog (checked October 2026) — plus an hours cross-check at the published $75–$150/hr cleanup rate. No login, nothing uploaded; it runs on this page, in your browser.
Personal and business money mixed in one account
Missing statements
Nothing reconciled in 6+ months
Sales tax collected but never filed
Payroll is part of the mess
The verdict line never changes: quote one flat project price — never hourly. Hourly is only the cross-check that tells you whether your scope is honest.
How to read the answer: the range is a project price, quoted flat. The hours line is only a cross-check — if the range implies far fewer hours than the mess will honestly take, the scope is wrong, not the client. The per-month equivalent is printed in every result so you can see the grounding against the published band yourself.
Quoting monthly work instead? The Retainer / Package Builder builds the three packages. Not sure you should be quoting at all yet? The Readiness Checker answers that honestly. Background: how cleanup pricing works and what a cleanup actually is.