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> Home cleaning represents an estimated $400 billion global market Any limited critical thinking will show that this number is likely off by 1-2 orders of magn
by debacle 11y ago
> Home cleaning represents an estimated $400 billion global market
Any limited critical thinking will show that this number is likely off by 1-2 orders of magnitude. Your median US homeowner is spending $0 on home cleaning a year, and the average is likely very close to that. Outside of the US and Europe, labor costs drive that small amount to almost nothing. I would be amazed to learn that the actual size of the market was over $10 billion.
- ghaff 11y agoAlmost certainly high. US seems to be about a $10B market: http://www.sbdcnet.org/small-business-research-reports/commercial-residential-cleaning-services http://www.sbdcnet.org/small-business-research-reports/comme... Note though that, outside US and Europe, labor costs are indeed a lot lower but having a lot of personal help (cooks, housekeepers, nannies, etc.) is far more common also as a result.
- debacle 11y agoThat link appears to include commercial cleaning services, which I don't think a service like Homejoy would be able to "disrupt."