Housekeeping Staff Requirement Calculator

Work out housekeeping staff requirement instantly with clear inputs, formula shown and shareable results.

About Housekeeping Staff Requirement Calculator

Rooms to service are the room count times occupancy, and the attendant count divides that by the rooms one person can complete in a shift. The minutes-per-room figure is the check on whether a quota is realistic: fourteen rooms in an eight hour shift leaves about 34 minutes each including breaks.

Formula

Staff required

attendants = ceiling(rooms x occupancy / rooms per attendant per shift)

Worked example

With the default values below, Housekeeping Staff Requirement Calculator returns Room attendants needed of 7. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.

Inputs used

Rooms in the propertyminimum 1: 120
Occupancy rateaccepts 1–100 %: 78 %
Rooms one attendant cleans per shiftminimum 1: 14
Shift lengthminimum 0.5 h: 8 h

Results

Room attendants needed: 7
Rooms to service: 93.6
Time available per room: 34.29 min
Supervisors at one per ten attendants: 1

Step by step

1Values used
2Staff required
3Room attendants needed= 7
4Rooms to service= 93.6
5Time available per room= 34.29 min
6Supervisors at one per ten attendants= 1

Assumptions and limits

The result is derived only from the 4 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax, fees or charges or compounding frequency into account.
Figures are rounded for display to 2 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.

How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is the Housekeeping Staff Requirement figure worked out?

attendants = ceiling(rooms x occupancy / rooms per attendant per shift). Rooms to service are the room count times occupancy, and the attendant count divides that by the rooms one person can complete in a shift.

Why does this matter?

The minutes-per-room figure is the check on whether a quota is realistic: fourteen rooms in an eight hour shift leaves about 34 minutes each including breaks.

What do I need to enter?

Enter rooms in the property, occupancy rate, rooms one attendant cleans per shift, shift length. The defaults shown are a realistic worked example — swap in your own figures to get a result you can use.