Almost every pressure washing price you find online traces back to the same handful of lead-generation sites. They collect numbers from homeowners after the fact, or from contractors who pay them for leads. Neither group has much reason to publish a rate that makes anyone uncomfortable.
So we are asking the people who actually write the quotes.
What we are collecting
Seven questions, five of them a single tap. About ninety seconds. No account, no email required, nothing to unsubscribe from later.
Seven questions, about ninety seconds, no email required.
What gets published and what does not
Published: state-level and national averages, ranges, and medians. Things like contractors in Texas report a median flatwork rate of $0.19 per square foot.
Never published: your individual rates, tied to you or your company, in any form. Not in the report, not in a spreadsheet, not on request. If a state returns fewer than five responses we merge it into a regional figure rather than publish something that could be traced back to one business.
Your company name only appears if you choose to add it in the last question, and it appears on the contributor list below, never next to your pricing.
What you get for ninety seconds
- The full report before it goes public. You see where your rates sit against your state. Published hourly rates for this work run from $50 to $150. Price out a solo operator’s overhead honestly, $14,200 of annual costs across 1,000 billable hours on top of a $60,000 wage, and break-even lands at $74.20 an hour before a cent of profit. Anyone quoting in the bottom third of that published range is working below what it costs them to show up. How many contractors are actually quoting down there is the question this survey exists to answer. We do not have that number yet and we are not going to invent it.
- Your company listed and linked below, if you want it. It is a link from a site that publishes pricing data, on a page about your trade.
- A say in the numbers everyone else reads. Every cost guide on this site pulls from published references right now. Once this survey closes, they pull from contractors instead. If you have ever been undercut by someone quoting off a $0.08 per square foot article, this is the part that matters.
Every cost guide on this site pulls from published references right now: 220 public price observations across 28 sources, assembled in the open so you can check the method before you decide whether to add yours.
Contributors
Companies that have contributed pricing data to the 2026 report.
Contributors who opt in are listed here by company name, city and state, with a link to their website. Nothing about your pricing appears next to your name, ever.
Florida Roof Cleaning, Central Florida and the Treasure Coast. First contributor to the 2026 report.
When the report comes out
We publish once we have enough responses for the state-level figures to mean something. The target is 150 responses across at least 30 states, and we will publish a first edition at 60 responses covering 15 states rather than sit on the data waiting for perfect coverage.
Contributors get it by email a week before it goes public.
Questions
Who is behind this?
WashNumbers, run by Diego Hernández. We publish pressure washing cost calculators and cost guides. We do not sell leads, we do not rank contractors, and we do not take payment for placement. That last part is the reason we can publish a number that annoys somebody.
Are you going to sell my information?
No. There is nothing to sell: we do not ask for your email unless you want the report, and we do not ask for a phone number at all.
Why should I help a site that competes with me for search traffic?
Fair question, and worth answering plainly. We rank for cost queries. You rank for local service queries. A homeowner who arrives at our calculator and learns a housewash costs $340 is a homeowner who does not flinch when you quote $360. The traffic that finds us was never going to hire us, because we do not do the work.
Can I see the questions before I start?
They are all on the form and none of them are trick questions. Skip any you would rather not answer, the form accepts partial responses.
I only do residential. Is my data useful?
Yes. Most responses are residential, and the residential figures are the ones most people read.
Can I ask you to remove my data later?
Yes. Write to us with the state and approximate date you submitted and we will pull it before publication.
One more thing
If you would rather give something than answer questions, the free calculator widget is on the site for anyone to put on their own website. No survey or email is required, and attribution is appreciated but not required.
Written by Diego Hernández, founder of WashNumbers. Cost models are built from published contractor rates and public price observations. See how we build these numbers.
Last reviewed: September 2026