Free house cleaner job description generator

What should a house cleaner job description include?

A house cleaner job description should answer the questions a good applicant asks before they reply, in the order they ask them. The generator above writes each of these parts:

• A plain job title. “Part-Time House Cleaner in Austin, TX” beats “Cleaning Rockstar”. Use the words people search for, plus part-time, full-time or contractor.
• A two or three sentence summary with the business, the role, the area and the pay.
• What the work is: kitchens, bathrooms, dusting, floors, beds, and for deep, move-out or Airbnb roles, the extra tasks. Say how the day runs: checklists, photos, clocking in from a phone, access notes.
• Requirements you really need: a driver’s license and car if they drive between homes, a background check, lifting, languages. Leave out anything that is only nice to have, or mark it as a plus.
• Pay and benefits: a real range, how often you pay, tips, mileage, paid training and any benefits.
• The schedule: days, usual hours, hours a week and whether weekends are part of it.
• About your business, in a few honest sentences: who you clean for and what it is like to work with you.
• How to apply, with one easy step (text, call, email or a short form) and when you will reply.
• An equal opportunity line, so every applicant knows they will be considered fairly.

Many cleaners apply from their phone between jobs. Short bullet lists, no jargon and a text-to-apply option make it easy to reply; a long résumé form makes it easy to give up.

How do you write pay in a cleaning job post?

Write the pay as a range with a bottom and a top, in the unit you really pay: “$18 to $22 an hour” or “$60 to $90 per home”. Avoid “up to $25” or “$18 and up”, which hide the real number. Then add what changes take-home pay: tips (and that cleaners keep them), mileage between homes, paid training and how often you pay. If you pay per job, say roughly how long a typical job takes, so applicants can work out the hourly rate. For what cleaners earn and how to set your rate, see our guide on how much house cleaners make.

Some states and cities require pay in job postings. These are the rules we checked on official state sites on October 5, 2026. Laws change and cities can add their own, so check the source before you post:

Even if none of these apply to you, post the range anyway. Cleaners compare several jobs at once, and a posting without pay is easy to skip.

Should you hire cleaners as employees or 1099 contractors?

That depends on how the work is done, not on what you call it. The IRS looks at three kinds of evidence: behavioral control (do you decide how, when and where the work is done, or train the worker), financial control (who pays for supplies and how the worker is paid) and the type of relationship (benefits, and whether the work is the core of your business). No single factor decides it. Read the IRS guidance on independent contractor or employee; if it is still unclear, either side can ask the IRS for a determination with Form SS-8. States have their own tests too.

When you pick contractor in the generator, the posting leaves out set shifts, uniforms, training, clocking in and employee benefits, and says the cleaner chooses which jobs to accept. A posting alone does not make someone a contractor, though: what you do day to day matters more. If you hire employees, our page on payroll software for cleaning businesses covers hours, tips and paying your team.

Where should you post a cleaning job?

• Indeed. Indeed says many jobs can be posted for free, within its rules and limits, and sells sponsored posts that show up more (Indeed pricing). Paste the full posting here.
• Local Facebook groups. Town, neighborhood and job groups, plus groups for Spanish, Portuguese or French speakers in your area. Read each group’s rules first, and use the short version.
• Craigslist. Job ads cost $10 to $75 depending on the area, according to Craigslist’s posting fees page. The short version fits well.
• Your own cleaners. Good cleaners know other good cleaners. A referral bonus paid after the new hire’s first few months gives them a reason to send you one.
• Your website and social pages, with a simple jobs page that links to how to apply.
• Community boards at laundromats, churches, community centers and grocery stores, with the short version and tear-off phone numbers.

What should you ask in a cleaning job interview?

Keep it short and practical. These questions show how someone thinks about the work:

1. Walk me through how you clean a bathroom, from start to finish. Listen for an order (top to bottom, dry to wet) and for the toilet being cleaned last, with its own cloth.
2. What would you use on granite, hardwood floors and a glass shower door? Surface knowledge prevents damage.
3. You are 30 minutes behind with two homes left. What do you do? You want someone who tells you early.
4. A client asks you to clean the inside of the fridge, which is not on the list. What do you say? Look for friendliness and checking with you first.
5. You break a vase in a client’s home. What happens next? The only right answer is: tell the client and you right away.
6. Which days and hours can you work, and how will you get to jobs?
7. How do you feel about dogs and cats in the home? Allergies and fears matter when you plan routes.
8. Tell me about a time someone pointed out something you missed. Good cleaners take feedback without getting defensive.
9. Are you comfortable taking photos of finished rooms and using an app on your phone?
10. What would make you want to stay with us for a year or more? The answer tells you what to offer.

Many owners finish with a short trial clean alongside a lead. If you do one, pay for the time; it is work.

A first-week training plan for a new cleaner

A planned first week is the best way to keep a new cleaner past their first month. Here is a simple plan for an employee joining a crew:

For contractors, keep this to a walk-through of the client’s expectations and the job checklist. Detailed training is one of the signs of control the IRS looks at. A printed checklist helps either way: the free cleaning checklist maker builds one for standard, deep, move-out and Airbnb cleans.

Sample short job ads for a cleaning job

Made by the generator above, ready for a Facebook group or Craigslist:

How BroomBook helps a new cleaner on day one

A good job post gets the right person in the door; a clear first day keeps them. We make BroomBook, a scheduling and booking app for residential cleaning businesses, so take this section with that in mind. Here is what a new cleaner gets:

• A crew app with nothing to download. Each cleaner gets a private link with their jobs, and “Start my day” opens the route in Google Maps, Apple Maps or Waze.
• Room-by-room checklists with photos. Photos are checked against their checklist item, and the ones that need a look are flagged to you.
• Clock in and out from the phone. Hours flow into a timesheet you can correct (the reason is kept), with tips split across the crew and a CSV export for payroll.
• Job notes in their language. Notes are translated into Spanish, French or Portuguese for each cleaner, and access notes and alarm codes show only on the day of the visit.
• Team logins on every plan. Optional logins for cleaners and managers at no extra cost. You choose whether each cleaner sees prices and client phone numbers.
• Swaps without group texts. A cleaner can ask the team to take a visit, and free teammates get a text in their language.

Plans are $29 a month for up to 2 cleaners or $59 a month for any number, with no per-cleaner fee, a 14-day free trial and no credit card. See it with sample data in the live demo, or read about the crew app for cleaning businesses.

Pick something else if what you need is hiring software: BroomBook does not post jobs or track applicants, and it exports hours for payroll rather than running payroll and taxes for you. It is also not built for commercial janitorial or multi-trade companies, or for anyone who needs QuickBooks sync or an app-store app.

Still growing toward your first hire? Start with how to start a cleaning business and cleaning business insurance, which covers workers’ comp.