What is the average Airbnb cleaning fee?

The one number, and why it is not enough

AirROI's cleaning fee study, published on February 3 2026, looked at 2.4 million active Airbnb listings across 20 countries. For the United States it reports an average cleaning fee of $188 against an average nightly rate of $288. That is the figure most articles quote, and as a national summary it is accurate.

It is also close to useless for setting your own fee, for two reasons. A studio and a six-bedroom beach house are both in it. And an average is pulled upward by a small number of very large properties, so in markets with a wide mix it stops describing anything you could point at. Both problems have a fix, and both fixes are below.

Average Airbnb cleaning fee by number of bedrooms

This is the same study broken out by property size, for US entire-home listings. The sample column is the number of listings behind each figure, printed so you can see how thick the evidence is for your own size rather than having to trust a round number.

Notice how far the ends sit from the $188 headline. A one-bedroom averages $102, barely half of it. A four-bedroom averages $285, half again above it. If you have been sanity-checking your fee against $188 and you own either of those, you have been checking against the wrong number. The cleaning fee calculator runs this table for you and lets you adjust for the things that make a specific property slower to turn over.

Average versus median: the trap in most published figures

An average adds everything up and divides. A median is the middle: half the listings charge less, half charge more. When a market has a handful of enormous properties in it, the average climbs and the median does not, and the two numbers start telling different stories about the same place.

We read AirROI's published market pages for twenty US towns on August 16 2026, each stamped as updated on August 8 2026. In five of those twenty towns, the published average cleaning fee is at least one and a half times the published median. In one of them the average is more than three times the median. Those are the markets where quoting an average is actively misleading, and the table below shows the worst of them.

What the typical cleaning fee is in different kinds of market

Across the same twenty towns, the median cleaning fee ranges from $115 to $450. That is not noise, and it is not markets disagreeing about the price of labour. It mostly tracks what is being rented: towns with high nightly rates are towns with large properties, and large properties take longer to turn over everywhere.

• City markets renting small units sit lowest. Jacksonville's median is $115 on a $172 nightly rate, the lowest pair of the twenty.
• Established beach condo markets sit in the middle. Myrtle Beach is at a $150 median, Gulf Shores at $311.
• Cabin and large-beach-house markets sit highest. Santa Rosa Beach on Florida's 30A corridor has a $450 median on a $588 nightly rate.
• Mountain cabin country is high but consistent: the three Smoky Mountain towns run $200 to $226, with averages close to their medians.

If your market is one of the ten we have written up, the per-market calculators print the local median, the local average, the share of listings charging a fee at all, and the source page each figure came from.

Do most hosts charge a cleaning fee at all?

In every one of the twenty towns we read, the large majority do. The share of listings charging a separate cleaning fee ranged from 80.4% in Miami Beach up to 97.9% in Orange Beach, Alabama. So in a busy beach market with a lot of near-identical condo units, roughly one listing in five may have folded cleaning into the nightly rate instead; in a cabin market, almost nobody has.

That is worth knowing before you decide to drop your fee to look cheaper. In a market where 97% of listings carry a fee, a listing without one does not read as a bargain so much as an oddity, and the cost has to go somewhere regardless.

How much of a listing's income the cleaning fee represents

AirROI also publishes cleaning fees as a share of gross revenue per market. Across the twenty towns that share ran from 8.8% in Miami Beach to 19.3% in Orange Beach. The high-share markets are the ones where moving your fee by $25 visibly changes the total price a guest sees at checkout; the low-share markets are where there is more room to move it without anyone noticing.

What the average does not cover

Every figure on this page is for a standard turnover between guests. A few common jobs sit outside that, and pricing them off a turnover average is how cleaners end up underpaid and hosts end up surprised.

• A deep clean, with ovens, inside the fridge, baseboards and windows, is a different job from a turnover and is normally quoted separately.
• A property with no washer and dryer means linens leave and come back, which adds a trip to every single turnover.
• Same-day turnovers with a tight window often need two or three people instead of one, and are priced accordingly.
• Pets in the property add hair and odour work across every room rather than in one.

The calculator has toggles for these. They are our own adjustments rather than anything the study measured, and the page labels them that way on screen.

How to use these numbers on your own listing

1. 1Start with the by-bedroom average for your property size from the table above.
2. 2Adjust it for the things that genuinely change the work: no laundry on site, pets, more bathrooms than bedrooms, a deep clean rather than a turnover.
3. 3Check the result against the median in your own market, not the average, and not the national figure.
4. 4If your number is far above the local median, look at why. Usually it is that your property is larger than the market's typical listing, which is a fine reason. If there is no such reason, the number is probably too high.
5. 5Get an actual quote from a cleaner who works in your area before you publish the fee. Everything above is a benchmark, and a benchmark is not a quote.