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The Cleaning Business Licence Cost carries 2 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages, from 500 to 500 USD, read 17 October 2026.

500 to 500 USD Range of the published figures 2 published figures, not one market: read the rows
2 Sources with a figure of 16 read in full, 19 Oct 2026
3 of 16 Sources read that publish one 19% publish a figure at all
  1. California DIR - Janitorial Service Providers and Contractors (Property Service Workers Protection Act)500 USD
  2. California DIR - Janitorial Service Providers and Contractors (Property Service Workers Protection Act)500 USD
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California DIR - Janitorial Service Providers and Contractors (Property Service Workers Protection Act)500 USD
California DIR - Janitorial Service Providers and Contractors (Property Service Workers Protection Act)500 USD

3 of the 16 named sources read in full publish a figure; 13 publish none, read 17 October 2026.

By requirement

BreakdownMedianRangeSources
requirementindustry-registration500USD500 to 500USD1
requirementindustry-registration-renewal500USD500 to 500USD1
requirementsales-tax-rate6%6 to 6%1
requiremententity-filing100GBP100 to 100GBP1
requirementannual-confirmation-statement50GBP50 to 50GBP1

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The sentence each figure was read from (5)

Read in full, publishes no figure

13 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.

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Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).

3 of the 16 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 13 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 3 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.

The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 2 figures, never sentences; 60 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.

The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per jurisdiction per requirement - entity filing, general or state business licence, industry registration, surety or fidelity bond, workers' compensation class, sales-tax account where cleaning is a taxable service - each with its fee and its authority, quoted with the effective date; the figure nobody publishes is the TOTAL cost of legally opening a cleaning business in each of the fifty states plus GB, AU and CA, the count of states that impose an industry-specific registration (California's is the outlier at $500 a year), the count that tax janitorial work as a service, and the year-on-year movement of both

60 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.

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The Cleaning Business Licence Cost carries 2 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages, from 500 to 500 USD, read 17 October 2026.

3 of the 16 named sources read in full publish a figure; 13 publish none, read 17 October 2026.

Cleaning Business Licence Cost, requirement industry-registration: median 500 USD across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.

Cleaning Business Licence Cost, requirement industry-registration-renewal: median 500 USD across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.

Cleaning Business Licence Cost, requirement sales-tax-rate: median 6 percent across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.

Cleaning Business Licence Cost, requirement entity-filing: median 100 GBP across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.

Cleaning Business Licence Cost, requirement annual-confirmation-statement: median 50 GBP across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.

Cite as: "Buffrota Cleaning Business Licence Cost", updated 2026-10-19, https://buffrota.com/datasets/cleaning-business-licence-cost/.

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500 to 500 USD

2 published figures, Cleaning Business Licence Cost, across 3 sources, read 17 October 2026

Source: Buffrota Cleaning Business Licence Cost

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