About HotelWorkload

Most housekeeping staffing advice online is a single borrowed ratio — sixteen rooms per attendant, thirty minutes per room — presented without the shift arithmetic underneath it. That ratio breaks the moment a property has a suite floor, a heavy departure day, a deep-clean rotation or a fifteen-minute break rule that differs from whoever wrote the article.

HotelWorkload takes the other approach: you supply your own minutes per room type, shift length, breaks, absence buffer and wages, and the tool does the division. The output is defensible in a labor meeting because every input is yours and every formula is published on the methodology page.

HotelWorkload is built, written and maintained by Aaron Whitfield, who is the sole operator of the business and the author of every guide on this site. There is no editorial team, no sponsored placement and no vendor paying for a recommendation.

That independence is the point. The housekeeping software guide names categories of tool that overlap with what this site does, including cases where a PMS-integrated room-status app is the better buy than a planning calculator.

Questions, corrections and disagreements about the numbers are welcome and get read by the person who wrote them: [email protected].

The calculators contain no proprietary industry dataset. They contain arithmetic. The default minutes, ratios and par counts that pre-fill each form are starting points drawn from commonly published operating ranges, and each one is labelled as a range you should replace with your own measured figures.

Wage-driven outputs use the wage you type. Where a page cites a published wage figure, it links to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational data rather than repeating a number from another blog. Every guide page shows a “last reviewed” date and the formula it uses.

The full input-by-input breakdown lives on the methodology page.

• It is not a labor-law compliance tool. Break rules, overtime thresholds, predictive scheduling ordinances and union agreements vary by jurisdiction and contract. Every output is an estimate you check against your own agreements.
• It is not a PMS and does not connect to one. You type or paste the room counts.
• It is not a benchmark authority. No page here claims that a specific minutes-per-room figure is an industry standard, because there is no single standard across service levels, room sizes and brands.
• It does not publish customer counts, testimonials or case studies, because the business is new and there are none to report honestly yet.

Every calculator, guide, checklist and printable board on the public site is free and requires no account. The paid Pro plan adds saved properties, saved brand standards and retained daily boards, priced per property. Pricing is on the pricing page, Paddle.com is the merchant of record for all orders, and the refund policy is a 30-day money-back guarantee.

There are no affiliate links on this site and no vendor sponsorships in the content. If that ever changes, it will be disclosed on the page where it applies.