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Federal Janitorial Staffing Calculator

Estimate the mandatory SCA labor-cost floor and minimum staffing footprint for a hypothetical federal janitorial contract. Inputs run through ISSA-standard productivity rates and the Service Contract Act wage determination for Janitor (SCA code 11150) in your locality. Output: total annual hours, the FAR-mandated minimum cost, and where your estimate lands against real comparable awards.

Data sources: USASpending.gov (24-month comparable awards), SCA wage determinations from the Department of Labor.

Building portfolio

Enter each building's total square footage and how many floors it has. Floors adjust for vertical transit (stairs/elevators) — they don't multiply the square footage.

Building name (optional)Total sq ftFloors

Total: 50,000 sq ft · 1 of 20 buildings

Floor type breakdown

Sliders auto-rebalance to sum to 100%. Productivity differs by floor type — carpet is fastest, terrazzo is slowest.

Carpet60%

VCT / Vinyl30%

Terrazzo / Marble5%

Hardwood5%

Shift cadence

Facility type

Medical, lab, and secure space cleans slower than open office — this scales the labor hours so you don't underbid harder facilities. Leave on Office if unsure.

Performance location

Drives the SCA wage lookup. County-level is best — we fall back to state, then national, if county-specific data isn't in our database.

State

County (optional)

Specialty cleaning needs

Methodology

How the math works

Productivity rates — ISSA / BSCAI commercial standards: 3,500 sq ft/hr for carpet, 3,000 for VCT/vinyl, 2,800 for terrazzo/marble, 3,200 for hardwood.
Shift multiplier — annual hour scaling: 1.0× for single shift, 1.85× for multi-shift (2), 3.5× for 24-7 federal coverage.
SCA wage — pulled from our database of SCA wage determinations for Janitor 11150, the primary occupation for NAICS 561720. National fallback baseline of $15.00/hr + $4.93/hr H&W when county-specific data is unavailable.
Supervisory ratio — one supervisor per ten cleaners (rounded up).
Comparable awards — percentile band computed across federal awards for NAICS 561720 in the last 24 months (USASpending.gov, n ≥ 5 in your state, falling back to national).