Facility & commercial rate benchmarks · Quebec City
Commercial janitorial and cleaning rates in Quebec City.
Estimated median rate: $58/hr, range $50-$80/hr, for commercial and facility-side janitorial and cleaning work in Quebec City.
Estimated from Job Bank Canada (ESDC), Small Area Estimation wage model
Estimated median$58/hr
$50$80
What affects the rate
- Emergency vs scheduled: same-day or after-hours emergency calls run well above scheduled maintenance visits.
- After-hours and weekend work: typically carries a premium over standard business-hours rates.
- Contract vs ad-hoc: vendors on a standing contract usually price lower per hour than one-off, ad-hoc jobs.
- Code and certification requirements: trades with stricter local licensing (electrical, HVAC/gas) typically carry a premium tied to certification cost.
What's different in Quebec City
- Labour market: Quebec's construction trades operate under the same CCQ compulsory certification and wage-scale system as Montreal, setting a wage floor across most commercial trades province-wide.
- Climate and seasonality: Among the most severe winters of any Stage A city; heavy freeze-thaw cycling and snow-load drive plumbing, roofing, and HVAC emergency work.
- Code and licensing: Quebec licensing (RBQ contractor licence, CCQ competency cards) and the Quebec Construction Code apply the same way as in Montreal.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this a real measured rate, or an estimate?
- This figure is an estimate, not a measured billed rate: it's Quebec City's own hourly wage for janitorial and cleaning work (Job Bank Canada (ESDC), Small Area Estimation wage model, 2024), multiplied by a documented 2.5-3x service multiplier that converts an employee wage into a billed commercial rate. That multiplier covers labour burden (payroll tax, workers' comp, benefits, PTO), overhead (vehicle, dispatch, insurance, licensing), utilisation (not every hour is billable), and margin. It is not drawn from actual invoices or job records. Evalystar is building toward measured, job-derived rates for this same page as real vendor data accumulates. Shown below, not hidden, so you can check the arithmetic.Wagex Multiplier= EstimateLow$20/hrx 2.5$50/hrMedian$21/hrx 2.75$58/hrHigh$26.75/hrx 3$80/hr
- Why a range instead of a single number?
- A single average hides the real spread in the underlying wage data and in the multiplier itself. We show the low, median, and high ends of the estimate so the range reflects that uncertainty honestly, rather than implying more precision than a modelled figure can support.
- Is this a residential or commercial rate?
- Commercial. This figure tracks facility-side janitorial and cleaning work for businesses, property managers, and multi-site operators in Quebec City. Commercial rates typically run above residential rates for the same trade, reflecting insurance, code compliance, and scheduling requirements that residential work doesn't carry.