Housekeeping cost per occupied room calculator
Enter the hours you actually scheduled by role, add overtime and benefit load, and get burdened housekeeping cost, cost per occupied room and labor as a percent of rooms revenue — the three figures finance asks for.
Roles and hours
Overtime, load and volume
Priced at 1.5x the attendant wage
burdened housekeeping cost per occupied room
- Attendant wages
- $1,480
- Inspector wages
- $368
- Houseman wages
- $304
- Overtime at 1.5x
- $111
- Straight-time total
- $2,263
- Burdened total
- $2,761
- Total scheduled hours
- 116.0 hrs
- Blended hourly rate
- $19.51
- Labor % of rooms revenue
- 11.3%
What is housekeeping cost per occupied room?
Housekeeping cost per occupied room (CPOR) is total burdened housekeeping labor cost for a period divided by the number of occupied rooms in that period. It includes room attendants, inspectors and housemen, overtime at premium rate, and the benefit and payroll-tax load on all of it. Because it is expressed per room, it lets a rooms director compare a sold-out Saturday with a quiet Tuesday on the same footing.
Where the cost usually hides
Three lines account for most of the gap between an internal estimate and the P&L: supervision and public-area hours left out of the calculation, overtime treated as straight time, and benefit load ignored entirely. Turn all three on above and the number usually moves by several dollars a room.
How this calculator works
| Output | Formula |
|---|---|
| Role wages | Headcount × hours each × hourly wage, for attendants, inspectors and housemen |
| Overtime | Overtime hours × attendant wage × 1.5 |
| Straight-time total | Role wages + overtime |
| Burdened total | Straight-time total × (1 + benefit and tax load %) |
| Cost per occupied room | Burdened total ÷ occupied rooms |
| Labor % of rooms revenue | Burdened total ÷ rooms revenue × 100 |
Assumptions and limits
- Housekeeping labor only. Laundry contracts, guest supplies, cleaning chemicals and linen replacement are not included, so this is a labor CPOR rather than a full departmental cost.
- Overtime is a flat 1.5×. Daily versus weekly thresholds, double time, shift differentials and union premiums vary by jurisdiction and contract; adjust the hours you enter accordingly.
- Benefit load is your figure. The default is a starting point, not a benchmark — take the real load percentage from your payroll or finance team.
- No industry target is asserted. A “good” labor percentage depends on service level, ADR and market wages; compare the figure to your own trend rather than a published number.
- To change the cost, change the board. Re-plan the day in the staffing calculator or test a different quota with the rooms per housekeeper calculator.
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