💼 April 2025: Big Changes for Cleaning Businesses – What You Really Need to Know

It’s April 2025 — a brand new tax year — and if you’re in the cleaning game, you’ll want to pay attention. Big changes are already shaking up how we run cleaning businesses in the UK.

Here’s everything you need to know, explained in plain English.

📈 Minimum Wage Has Gone Up

The National Minimum Wage for anyone aged 21 or over is now:

• £12.21 per hour

Sounds okay, right?

But if you run a business and employ people, you’re not just paying £12.21/hour. You’ve got loads of extra costs on top.

🧾 What You Actually Pay to Employ Someone

Here’s what a cleaner can really cost you per hour when you include everything:

• £12.21 – base wage

• National Insurance

• Pension contributions

• Holiday pay

• Sick pay (especially now it starts from day 1!)

• Cleaning products

• Petrol or mileage

• Travel time between jobs

• Wear and tear on kit

• Admin time, insurance, and software

💰 Total hourly cost? Roughly £20.01 per hour

So if you're charging £21 an hour… you're barely scraping £1 profit — before tax, cancellations, or other overheads.

⚠️ Sick Pay Starts Sooner Now

As of April 2025:

• Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) starts from day one

• Before, you didn’t have to pay until day four

• Now, if your employee calls in sick, you’re covering it straight away

This makes managing costs and staffing even more important.

💷 Want to Earn £1,500 or £2,000 a Month?

Let’s say you’re a solo cleaner working for yourself and charging £21/hour.

Here’s how many clients you need to hit your income goals:

• To earn £1,500 a month – you need 18 two-hour clients per week

• To earn £2,000 a month – you need 24 two-hour clients per week

This is assuming you’re working consistently, and your clients aren’t cancelling or ghosting you!

💡 Real Talk: Profit Over Busy-ness

You can be:

• Fully booked

• Running around every day

• Charging a “decent” hourly rate...

...and still making next to nothing.

Because if you don’t know your profit margins, you don’t know your business.

Running a proper business means:

• Knowing your numbers

• Pricing to cover everything

• Building systems that support you

• Having a plan — not just a calendar full of jobs

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You’ve got the drive.
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Now it’s time to clean up your systems and stack that profit. 💼✨