Average Airbnb cleaning fee, and how to set yours

A cleaning fee has one job: to pay for the turnover between guests without making your listing look expensive next to the one down the road. This guide gives you the latest published averages, Airbnb's current fee rules and a way to set your fee from your real costs. If you have not written down what a turnover includes yet, start with our free Airbnb cleaning checklist, because it is hard to price a job you have not defined.

The average Airbnb cleaning fee in 2025

AirDNA, a short-term rental data company, puts the average US Airbnb cleaning fee at $161.10 per stay in 2025. It calculates that figure only across listings that charge a fee, so listings with no cleaning fee do not pull it down. AirDNA also reports that nearly 9 in 10 US listings (89%) include a cleaning fee.

The size of your place matters more than the national number. These are AirDNA's US averages for the first quarter of 2025:

The figure also varies a lot by market. AirDNA found coastal markets averaging from $49 for a private room to $421 for five bedrooms or more, against $38 to $276 in small city and rural markets. The share of listings that charge a fee varies too: 97% in Panama City, Florida and Corpus Christi, Texas, but 64% in Deep Creek, Maryland and Aspen/Snowmass, Colorado. AirDNA says fees grew by an average of 4% between 2024 and 2025.

Airbnb's own numbers look different because they measure something different. In its newsroom, citing its own 2023 data, Airbnb says nearly 40% of its active listings charge no cleaning fee at all, and that where a listing does charge one, the fee is on average less than 10% of the total reservation cost. Airbnb does not say which countries that covers, so treat the two sources as two views rather than a contradiction. For your own listing, the benchmark that matters is what similar listings near you charge.

How Airbnb shows and handles cleaning fees today

A few platform rules shape what a sensible fee looks like.

• Guests see the total price. Since April 21, 2025, Airbnb shows guests everywhere the total price of a stay, including all fees before taxes, when they browse search results. Your cleaning fee is part of the number guests compare, and it still appears as its own line at checkout.
• Search looks at the total too. Airbnb says its search ranking prioritizes total price, along with quality, compared with similar listings nearby.
• Airbnb's service fee applies to it. Airbnb's host fee is a percentage of the booking subtotal, which includes the fees you charge. Under the single-fee structure, which Airbnb says it is moving all home hosts to, most hosts pay 15.5%. Under the older split-fee structure, most hosts pay 3% and the guest pays a separate service fee.
• Special offers and changes need care. A special offer does not include the cleaning fee automatically, and adding a cleaning fee to a confirmed booking takes a trip change request that the guest has to accept.
• It covers standard cleaning only. Airbnb says cleaning fees are meant for standard cleaning between reservations, such as laundry and vacuuming. Guests can report "excessive checkout tasks" when they rate your communication, so keep your requests short. Our checkout instructions template shows what to ask. For unexpected costs such as stains or smoke odors, Airbnb points hosts to a reimbursement request or to Host damage protection under AirCover for Hosts, which it says may reimburse up to $3 million USD.

To set or change the fee on desktop, Airbnb's steps are to open Calendar, select the listing, choose Pricing and then Fees, and edit Cleaning fee. If you also take direct bookings, the Federal Trade Commission's fees rule, in effect since May 12, 2025, says the price a guest first sees for a vacation rental must include all the required fees the seller knows about.

How to set your cleaning fee from your real cost

Start from what one turnover costs you, not from what other hosts charge. Then check the result against your market.

1. Price the clean. Write down what you pay your cleaner for one turnover. Some cleaners charge a flat rate per turnover and some charge by the hour, so turn either into a per-turnover figure. For context, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the national median wage for maids and housekeeping cleaners at $17.07 an hour in May 2025, with the lowest-paid 10% under $13.29 and the highest-paid 10% over $23.35. That figure covers employees, not self-employed cleaners, so turnover rates in your area can differ. Our guide on how much to pay an Airbnb cleaner covers this step in detail.
2. Add laundry. Use the laundry service charge for one turnover, or your own detergent, water and machine time if you wash the linens yourself.
3. Add supplies and restocking. This means toilet paper, soap, coffee, trash bags and cleaning products. Track a month of purchases and divide by the number of turnovers in that month.
4. Add anything else you pay per turnover. This could be mileage, a separate inspection or a restocking run.
5. Allow for Airbnb's host fee. Divide your total by one minus your host fee rate. At 15.5%, divide by 0.845. At 3%, divide by 0.97.
6. Compare and adjust. Look at the total price of a typical stay at similar listings near you, then decide how much of your cost goes in the cleaning fee and how much goes in the nightly price.

Here is a worked example. The amounts are placeholders to show the arithmetic, not averages.

Using the cleaning fee calculator

The calculator on this page does the same arithmetic with your own numbers. It also shows what the fee adds to each night of an average stay and the total a guest sees for that stay before taxes.

The trade-off between a cleaning fee and your nightly price

Because guests now compare total prices, a cleaning fee and a higher nightly price end up in the same number. The difference is how the cost spreads over the length of the stay. Using a $142 fee like the one in the example:

A separate cleaning fee recovers the full cost of every turnover, whatever the length of the stay. The catch is that it makes short stays look expensive, and Airbnb notes that listings with a cleaning fee face higher cleanliness expectations from guests.

Folding cleaning into the nightly price keeps the price simple. If your average stay is 3 nights, you would add about $47 a night. You then collect about $47 toward a $142 turnover on a one-night stay and about $331 on a seven-night stay, so long stays end up paying for short ones. Airbnb suggests that new hosts consider waiting until they have a few strong reviews before adding a cleaning fee.

A short-stay cleaning fee sits between the two. You keep your full fee for longer stays and charge less for 1 and 2 night bookings, which makes short stays easier to book while you accept a smaller margin on them. Whichever you choose, check the total for a two-night and a five-night stay against similar listings before you save it.

More short stays also means more turnovers to schedule. TurnMyRental reads your booking calendar and texts your own cleaner each turnover job to accept or decline, so a new booking reaches them without you writing a message. Plans are a flat monthly price based on how many properties you have.