Airbnb cleaning fee calculator for Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge
Cabin country runs on turnovers, and the cleaning fees hosts charge here show it. Across Sevierville, Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge the middle of the market sits between $200 and $226 a turnover, well above the $188 US average.
What Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge hosts charge right now
| Town | Median fee | Average fee | Charge a fee | Nightly rate | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sevierville | $226 | $282 | 96.4% | $402 | 7,393 |
| Gatlinburg | $211 | $253 | 95.5% | $373 | 4,024 |
| Pigeon Forge | $200 | $248 | 97.7% | $358 | 3,378 |
AirROI market data, each town page stamped “Updated: August 8, 2026” and read on August 16, 2026. Counts are active Airbnb listings, so figures that also include Vrbo and Booking.com run higher. That is 14,795 listings across the towns above. For comparison the US average cleaning fee is $188 on a $288 nightly rate.
Typical cleaning fee
US averages by size, then Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge adjustments
$130 to $180
For a 2 bedroom turnover.
- Published average for this size
- $156
- Working figure
- $155
An estimate, not a quote. What your property actually costs depends on its condition and how fast you need it turned around.
How this number is worked out
The starting figure is the published average cleaning fee for that property size, taken from AirROI’s Airbnb cleaning fee study, published February 3, 2026 and drawn from 2.4 million active Airbnb listings across 20 countries. The figures below are the US entire-home listings segment.
| Property size | Average fee | Listings behind it |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | $83 | 46,012 |
| 1 bedroom | $102 | 160,770 |
| 2 bedrooms | $156 | 200,538 |
| 3 bedrooms | $210 | 171,671 |
| 4 bedrooms | $285 | 80,098 |
| 5 bedrooms | $371 | 33,375 |
| 6 bedrooms or more | $458 | 12,447 |
The checkboxes above are our adjustments, not part of that study. We put them at round numbers because nobody has measured them precisely, and we would rather say that than invent a decimal place. The range shown is 15% either side of the working figure, so it reads as a band rather than a promise.
One thing the study cannot tell you: what a cleaner near you will actually charge. That is what the quote below is for, and it costs nothing to ask.
Why the calculator uses national figures by bedroom, not the Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge average
The Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge figures above are market-wide: every property size mixed together into one average. The AirROI study behind the calculator breaks its numbers down by bedroom count instead, which is what you actually need to price a specific property.
It is tempting to take a national figure and multiply it by however much this market runs above average. That gets the wrong answer, and the reason is worth knowing: a market’s fees are higher partly because its properties are bigger. Multiply a by-bedroom figure by a market factor that already contains the size effect and you have counted size twice.
So the calculator sizes your fee from the bedroom count up, and the table above is the sanity check. If the two are far apart, the interesting question is why — usually property size, sometimes that you are looking at an average rather than a median.
What the Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge numbers actually say
The striking thing in the Smoky Mountain numbers is how little they disagree with each other. In each of the three towns the average cleaning fee sits within about 25% of the median, which means there is no small group of enormous outliers dragging the average up. In markets like Asheville or Miami that gap is two or three times over. Here it is not, and a tight gap means the published middle is a figure you can actually price against.
The other number worth looking at is the share of gross revenue going to cleaning: between 16.6% and 17.2% across the three towns. Guests see that as part of the price, so a fee set well above the local middle shows up as a more expensive booking rather than as extra margin.
The published nightly rates hint at what is being cleaned. Sevierville runs at $402 a night and Gatlinburg at $373, which are not studio-apartment numbers, and a market of larger properties is a market of longer turnovers — more beds stripped, more bathrooms, more floors. That is why the calculator below prices off the number of bedrooms rather than off the local average; see the note under the result.
We do not clean in this market ourselves. We run this calculator, we are signing up one cleaning company per metro area, and until one is signed here we hold requests rather than pass them around.
Questions Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge hosts ask
- How much should I charge for cleaning a cabin in Gatlinburg?
- The median cleaning fee in Gatlinburg is $211 and the average is $253, per AirROI's market data updated August 8, 2026. Pigeon Forge sits slightly lower at a $200 median, and Sevierville slightly higher at $226. Those are figures across every property size in the market, so size your own fee off the bedroom count in the calculator above and use the local median as a sanity check rather than a target.
- Do hosts in the Smokies actually charge a cleaning fee?
- Almost all of them. 95.5% of Gatlinburg listings charge one, 96.4% in Sevierville and 97.7% in Pigeon Forge. A listing here without a cleaning fee is the exception, not a competitive advantage.
- Why is the cleaning fee higher here than the national average?
- Partly price and partly property size. The US average cleaning fee is $188 across all listings and all three Smokies towns sit above it — but they also run nightly rates of $358 to $402 against a $288 US average, which points to larger properties, and bigger properties cost more to turn over anywhere. That is why multiplying a national figure by a local factor gets you the wrong answer, and why the calculator above works from bedrooms up.
- How many short-term rentals are there in the Gatlinburg area?
- Adding the three published town figures gives 14,795 active Airbnb listings: 7,393 in Sevierville, 4,024 in Gatlinburg and 3,378 in Pigeon Forge, per AirROI as of August 8, 2026. Counts that include Vrbo and Booking.com run considerably higher.
For cleaning companies
One cleaning company gets Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge
Every host who fills in the form above goes to a single cleaning company in their metro area. Not three companies racing each other to the phone, and not a lead sold twice. One company per market, and we are still signing them.
Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge has 14,795 active Airbnb listings across the 3 towns covered on this page. This page exists to answer the question hosts ask right before they go looking for somebody to do the work, which is what to charge for cleaning.
We would rather tell you how many requests have actually come in from this market than promise you a number. Ask, and you get the real count — including if the answer is none yet.