[Sir Squeaky]

£80-100 before breakfast is not unheard of.

Wish I could afford breakfast    

[Londoner]

I take it you go for breakfast about 4 in the afternoon then?

[Paul Coleman]

Serious answer now.  My best ever day was about £250.  Some people can do that and more regularly.  I tend not to though.  There are days I might do £170.  There are days when I get to three figures and skive off.  There are days when I just want a quick fifty and go home.  I have even gone out before just to do one shop front close by and then gone home.
At the moment I can do this because I do not have a full workload.  It seems silly busting a gut to get through work more quickly just to get an extra day or two off when I already get a fair bit of time off anyway.  When my workload is fuller, I should be earning a lot better.
I don't have a problem putting stuff like this on here as I'm not stating my annual income or anything like that.  I run my business with scrupulous honesty and pay my dues to the state anyway.
I doubt that I earn any more than someone with an OK paid job but I do get a lot more free time and a lot more choices about how to live my life.  Those are the biggest bonuses and are worth far more than money to me.

[[GQC] Tim]

I hope the first bunch of posters are seriously joking, because on a good day, Gross £150 is easily possible, about 10-15 good sized houses. That's just me. 

[Dean Aspects]

when working on my own i regularly do £150 but if i push it a bit can do £200+
having said that it also depends on the day of the week
early in the week its the £200 trailing of to fridays when i just roll over and go back to sleep

[EasyClean]

Being offered a cuppa at every house!
Several years ago on one of the nursing homes I use to clean a certain individual woman always use to cook me a full English breakfast regardless of what time of the day it was. The price for the nursing home wasn't brilliant but the hospitality was!

[Pat Purcell]

I think that noise you are hearing is another 1000 people rushing to B&Q to buy a squege thingy and a rag

[JM123]

A good day for me is £200+ but even £150 is fine. 

[Ian_Giles]

If I work a full day then I'd be very disappointed if I didn't exceed £150 plus...but that doesn't mean I have all full days, depends on circumstances.

Individual days can on occasion far exceed that figure.

But you do need to have well priced work, and you also need to be experienced and  quick at what you are doing.
It takes time to become quick, and of course it also takes time to build up enough work so that you are in a position to be able to earn reasonable money.

People outside of window cleaning may well think, "Wow, look at the money you can earn window cleaning!"
And they are right...you CAN earn very good money indeed, but it takes many, many months of hard slog before you get there, in fact, more often it takes a few years
Instant easy money it ain't!
According to the tax man, the average turnover for  a window cleaner is around the £17-£19,000 per year, (and that isn't your wage remember) which of course means a great many earn far less than that.

Although a fair target to aim for is £100 and above for your daily turnover, taken over 12 months, even if you regularly top a ton, it's unlikely in the extreme you will be submitting 25k plus to the tax man...

Ian

[telboy]

Some of the daily wages some shiners earn

is going to attract an awful lot of people to
 window cleaning

[cottonbud10]

i,ve been going fulltime since june,before that i only worked on saturdays as a part-timer,i started on 400 per month.I am now a fulltime window cleaner and work on average 3-4 days a week and my monthly income has gone from  400 per month to 1800 and i,m still trying to get it to about 2000 per  month,it takes time to build a round,this site has been great for me regarding good advice,if anyone out there is looking to sell off any of your round and you live around southend then give me a call

[Davew]

Part time I'm on about 600 per month I would need an awefull lot more to go full time obviously, but I'm working at it. It's a bit like fishing really some days no new customers then other days three or four new ones come in together, the best ones are when you get recommended - lifts you back up again for a while.

[SherwoodCleaningSe]

My wife and I work about 5 1/2 hrs during school time and aim to earn £180 that was traditional, some times hitting £250.  We've been wfp about 7 weeks and are suddenly going a lot faster.  On some nhs work done on an annual basis we can get £750 in a day but that's a 12 hr day for both of us.

Simon

[Paul Coleman]

i,ve been going fulltime since june,before that i only worked on saturdays as a part-timer,i started on 400 per month.I am now a fulltime window cleaner and work on average 3-4 days a week and my monthly income has gone from  400 per month to 1800 and i,m still trying to get it to about 2000 per  month,it takes time to build a round,this site has been great for me regarding good advice,if anyone out there is looking to sell off any of your round and you live around southend then give me a call

I think that's terrific that you've got that far in just 9 months.  I wish the internet was around in its current form when I was early in my business.  It would have saved me years of aggro, working underpriced for customers who always had a moan.  I just didn't realise what was possible.  The forums I use and WFP have revolutionised things for me.  After 15 years as a window cleaner, I feel as if I'm barely beginning.

[Ian Fletcher]

Well done all you guys who earn the big money,
Are you all wfp and is it just houses you clean,I  realy want to  get into the other side of window cleaning I have a few at the moment nurseing homes X2 hotel 1 and a pub
where the money is good ie the pub is £50 and only takes a hour

I have a advert in the yellow pages,where I picked up this work from,Is there any other way to get more work,Like sending letters to companys etc

btw £112 today but got to collect £80 of that

how long have you been window cleaning 2

[Grafters Cleaning Services]

is it april 1st because i cannot believe what some of you are stating £50-£80 a day?
not worth getting outta bed for

i'm not gonna tell you what i earn because that's between me, the missus, my bank manager and my good friend the tax man

[Paul Coleman]

Well done all you guys who earn the big money,
Are you all wfp and is it just houses you clean,I  realy want to  get into the other side of window cleaning I have a few at the moment nurseing homes X2 hotel 1 and a pub
where the money is good ie the pub is £50 and only takes a hour

I have a advert in the yellow pages,where I picked up this work from,Is there any other way to get more work,Like sending letters to companys etc

btw £112 today but got to collect £80 of that

how long have you been window cleaning 2

Without you quoting a bit of the text from a post, it's hard to know who you are asking.  However, if you were asking me, I've been window cleaning since late 1991.

[chineapplepunks]

4 hours, 1/2 day, £160,  had enough and go home happy

[Paul Coleman]

is it april 1st because i cannot believe what some of you are stating £50-£80 a day?
not worth getting outta bed for

i'm not gonna tell you what i earn because that's between me, the missus, my bank manager and my good friend the tax man

Nah they're having a laugh mate.  Sometimes I might only take £50 or £80 in a day but I'm talking about a part day when I'm busy with non work stuff too.  Sometimes I just need to pop out to get finished in a particular area and then knock off early to do other things.  I find it important to do other (non work) things too as I find window cleaning isn't particularly mentally stimulating.

[Terry_Burrows]

best ever £37