Realistic Profit Margins

[Stephan]

I know this can vary due to region, wage, etc., but what do you think a reasonable profit margin is for a small to medium size office building? This is assuming normal cleaning specs.

I'm just finishing off my business plan and I posed this question to myself

[jahra352]

I always try to price a cleaning customer so that my profit after paying my cleaning help is one-third. So a $1,000 job I expect to make about $330.00 profit. Small jobs with once per week cleaning I try to make 40% profit. A very large job of $10,000 per month I can lower to 20 - 25%.
Hopes this helps a little?
Peter
Total Maintenance Services of N.J.