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Pool Cleaning Revenue per Business

What the average one-person pool cleaning business takes in, from federal data.

Revenue per business Census

Average receipts, one-person pool cleaning business, 2023 NAICS 561790

$40,915

142,112 businesses with no employees reported $5,814,574,000 in total receipts.

This is revenue, not income. Supplies, fuel, insurance, rent and taxes all come out of it before the owner is paid.

What owners keep IRS

Average net income per sole proprietor, 2023 wider group

$7,769

Average receipts in the same group: $36,687 across 3,118,914 returns.

Not pool cleaning alone. The IRS does not publish pool cleaning separately. This figure covers the whole "Administrative and support services" group, so it mixes in other trades. It is an average, and losses pull it down.

How to read these numbers

Both figures are averages. No federal source publishes a median or a percentile range for owners of a single business type, so this page does not show one. The Census figure counts only businesses with no paid employees. Next: what it costs to start a pool cleaning business.

Q.01 How much revenue does a pool cleaning business make?
The average pool cleaning business with no employees took in $40,915 in 2023 (U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics). That is revenue before any costs. Census has no separate code for pool cleaning: it counts it under "Other Services to Buildings and Dwellings", which also covers other work.
Q.02 How much does a pool cleaning owner actually earn?
No federal source publishes owner income for pool cleaning alone. The IRS reports an average net income of $7,769 per sole proprietor return for the wider group "Administrative and support services", which mixes in other trades.
Sources n=2
  1. 01 U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics 2023 (NS2300NONEMP), NAICS 56179 Other Services to Buildings and Dwellings, US total, all legal forms. Retrieved 2026-09-21.
  2. 02 IRS Statistics of Income, Nonfarm Sole Proprietorships, Table 1, Tax Year 2023, row "Administrative and support services". Retrieved 2026-09-21.