Cleaning & Moving costs
House cleaning rates and local and long-distance moving costs. Every guide shows the low, typical and high price from published national data, what drives the price, and how your region changes it.
House Cleaning Service Cost
Per-visit, hourly and per-square-foot prices for standard, deep and move-out cleans.
Typical: $176/visit · Range $118–$239🚚Cross-Country Moving Cost
Full-service mover prices by home size and distance, and the fees that ambush people.
Typical: $4,570 · Range $2,400–$6,900How pricing works in this category
Cleaning and moving look like simple services and price like complicated ones. Cleaners charge per visit, per hour or per square foot — whichever the company prefers — and movers charge by weight and distance, two numbers most customers never see until the invoice. Our guides translate every pricing model into one comparable figure for a defined home, then show how frequency, home size, season and distance move it.
Moving guides in this category also cover the consumer-protection side, because interstate moving is federally regulated and estimate type matters: the difference between a binding and a non-binding estimate, what released-value coverage actually pays (60 cents per pound), and how to verify a mover's USDOT registration in the FMCSA database before signing anything.
Every figure in these guides is an estimate drawn from published data and checked against at least two sources — see how we research, and the disclaimer for what these numbers can and cannot do.