Office, medical, warehouse and retail cleaning don't need different pricing formulas — the same labour, cost and margin maths applies to all of them. What changes is what you need to notice and capture during the walkthrough, because that's what drives the labour hours and cost inputs the maths actually runs on.
Office
The main driver in an office is workstation density — more desks and more people generally means more bins, more high-touch surfaces and more kitchen/breakroom load per square metre than the floor area alone suggests. After-hours access is the norm rather than the exception, so factor in whether that requires alarm codes, security escorts, or a building induction before the first visit.
Medical / Healthcare
Medical facilities usually come with infection-control expectations and approved-product requirements that a general office doesn't — confirm what products and methods are acceptable before you price the job, since a compliant approach can take longer or cost more per visit than a standard clean. Restricted or clinical areas may need specific training or clearance to access at all.
Warehouse / Industrial
Large open floor areas change the labour-per-square-metre relationship significantly — a wide-open warehouse floor typically cleans faster per square metre than a subdivided office, even though the total area might be far larger. Dust levels, forklift traffic and loading dock access are the details worth confirming, since they affect both task frequency and site access windows.
Retail
Retail sites are usually judged on visibility — customer-facing areas need to look immaculate, which can mean more frequent attention to entrances, floors and fitting rooms than a similarly sized back-of-house space. Trading hours often push service into very early morning or overnight windows, which is worth confirming before you assume standard after-hours access applies.
Capturing this during the walkthrough, not after
Every consideration above is something you can only really account for by asking and observing on site — which is exactly what a structured walkthrough is for, regardless of facility type. See Questions to Ask During a Commercial Cleaning Site Walkthrough for the discovery questions that surface these details.
Use the Free Site Walkthrough for any facility type — it doesn't assume a specific vertical, so you record what's actually relevant to the site in front of you, then carry it straight into the Quote & Profit Calculator.