{
  "name": "Window Cleaning Statistics 2026",
  "description": "Verified window cleaning industry statistics for the United States: industry structure, employment and pay, and safety. Every figure carries its publisher, the period it describes and a link to the page it appears on.",
  "source": "https://flyra.io/window-cleaning-statistics",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "licenseName": "CC BY 4.0",
  "attribution": "Flyra, Window Cleaning Statistics 2026. https://flyra.io/window-cleaning-statistics",
  "sourcesVerifiedAt": "2026-09-12",
  "spatialCoverage": "United States",
  "figures": {
    "structure": [
      {
        "value": "67,295",
        "label": "Establishments in Janitorial Services (NAICS 561720), the federal industry code whose definition explicitly includes window cleaning.",
        "source": "US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022",
        "href": "https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp.html",
        "asOf": "2022"
      },
      {
        "value": "61%",
        "label": "Share of those establishments with fewer than five employees — 41,063 of 67,295. This is an owner-operator trade.",
        "source": "US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022",
        "href": "https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp.html",
        "asOf": "2022"
      },
      {
        "value": "1,067,762",
        "label": "People employed across janitorial services establishments.",
        "source": "US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022",
        "href": "https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp.html",
        "asOf": "2022"
      },
      {
        "value": "$30.8bn",
        "label": "Annual payroll across janitorial services establishments.",
        "source": "US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022",
        "href": "https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp.html",
        "asOf": "2022"
      },
      {
        "value": "17,574",
        "label": "Establishments in Other Services to Buildings and Dwellings (NAICS 561790), where much specialist exterior cleaning sits. 74% have under five employees.",
        "source": "US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022",
        "href": "https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp.html",
        "asOf": "2022"
      },
      {
        "value": "224,960",
        "label": "Establishments across all Services to Buildings and Dwellings (NAICS 5617), employing 2.1 million people on an $81.9bn payroll.",
        "source": "US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022",
        "href": "https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp.html",
        "asOf": "2022"
      }
    ],
    "pay": [
      {
        "value": "$44,040",
        "label": "Median annual pay for Building Cleaning Workers, All Other (SOC 37-2019), the federal occupation window washers are classified under.",
        "source": "BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025",
        "href": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes372019.htm",
        "asOf": "May 2025"
      },
      {
        "value": "$46,420",
        "label": "Mean annual pay for the same occupation, or $22.32 an hour.",
        "source": "BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025",
        "href": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes372019.htm",
        "asOf": "May 2025"
      },
      {
        "value": "17,210",
        "label": "Workers employed nationally in Building Cleaning Workers, All Other.",
        "source": "BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025",
        "href": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes372019.htm",
        "asOf": "May 2025"
      },
      {
        "value": "$32,370 – $64,030",
        "label": "The 10th to 90th percentile annual pay range for the occupation, a spread of almost exactly 2x.",
        "source": "BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025",
        "href": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes372019.htm",
        "asOf": "May 2025"
      },
      {
        "value": "$36,840",
        "label": "Median annual pay for Janitors and Cleaners (SOC 37-2011), $7,200 below the specialist cleaning group.",
        "source": "BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025",
        "href": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes372011.htm",
        "asOf": "May 2025"
      },
      {
        "value": "2,209,760",
        "label": "Janitors and cleaners employed in the United States, the broader occupation.",
        "source": "BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025",
        "href": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes372011.htm",
        "asOf": "May 2025"
      },
      {
        "value": "$49,100",
        "label": "Median annual pay for First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers, the step up from the van.",
        "source": "BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025",
        "href": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes371011.htm",
        "asOf": "May 2025"
      },
      {
        "value": "$76,430",
        "label": "Top-decile annual pay for those supervisors.",
        "source": "BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025",
        "href": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes371011.htm",
        "asOf": "May 2025"
      }
    ],
    "safety": [
      {
        "value": "356",
        "label": "Workers in building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations died on the job in 2024, up from 337 in 2023.",
        "source": "BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 2024",
        "href": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm",
        "asOf": "2024"
      },
      {
        "value": "844",
        "label": "Fatal falls, slips and trips across all US occupations in 2024, down 4.6% from 885 in 2023.",
        "source": "BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 2024",
        "href": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm",
        "asOf": "2024"
      },
      {
        "value": "10.8%",
        "label": "Share of fatal falls that were from a height of more than 30 feet — roughly the third storey of a building.",
        "source": "BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 2024",
        "href": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm",
        "asOf": "2024"
      },
      {
        "value": "5,070",
        "label": "Total fatal work injuries in the United States in 2024, down from 5,283 in 2023.",
        "source": "BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 2024",
        "href": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm",
        "asOf": "2024"
      },
      {
        "value": "3.3",
        "label": "Fatal work injuries per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers in 2024, down from 3.5 in 2023.",
        "source": "BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 2024",
        "href": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm",
        "asOf": "2024"
      }
    ]
  },
  "marketSizeEstimates": [
    {
      "source": "IBISWorld",
      "figure": "$2.9bn",
      "basis": "US Window Washing industry, 2024. 2019–24 CAGR of 2.3%.",
      "href": "https://www.ibisworld.com/industry-statistics/market-size/window-washing-united-states/",
      "note": "The most widely repeated figure. Business and employee counts on the same page are paywalled."
    },
    {
      "source": "Fortune Business Insights",
      "figure": "$162.35bn",
      "basis": "Window cleaning services market, 2026, projected to $16.85bn by 2034.",
      "href": "https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/window-cleaning-services-market-113725",
      "note": "Internally contradictory: the figure falls across the forecast period while a 9.66% compound growth rate is claimed."
    },
    {
      "source": "Third-party market report",
      "figure": "$808M",
      "basis": "US window cleaning market, 2025, projected to $1.2bn by 2033 at 4.9%.",
      "href": "",
      "note": "Roughly a quarter of the IBISWorld figure for a comparable scope."
    }
  ],
  "contestedBusinessCount": {
    "figure": "35,344",
    "claim": "businesses in the US window washing industry",
    "source": "IBISWorld (paywalled)",
    "problem": "Quoted across most pages ranking for this term, but it sits behind IBISWorld’s paywall, so no reader can check it. Census County Business Patterns, which is free, counts 67,295 janitorial services establishments."
  },
  "flyraFigures": {
    "note": "Pricing, seasonality, retention and service mix come from the Flyra Window Cleaning Price Index and are published separately.",
    "url": "https://flyra.io/window-cleaning-price-index",
    "data": "https://flyra.io/window-cleaning-price-index/data.json"
  }
}