Cleaning jobs · Adelaide
House cleaning jobs in Adelaide
Quick answer: Simply Maid offers house cleaning work in Adelaide to experienced cleaners, teams and cleaning businesses, as independent contractors. The starting base rate is $45 an hour, paid weekly. You choose your hours and how far you travel, and jobs are offered in the app within that availability. How much work you get depends on bookings near you.
We're taking applications in Adelaide now. You can start with your mobile and email, and your progress saves as you go.
What the work is like in Adelaide
Most jobs are regular cleans of the same homes every week, fortnight or four weeks, with one-off deep cleans and end of lease cleans in between.
Each job comes with the address, the time, the scope and the payment before you accept it. Regular customers mean you clean the same homes and get to know them; the app keeps the job checklist, the access details and the customer's notes in one place.
The work follows our three services:
- Standard cleaning: the regular clean of kitchens, bathrooms, floors and living areas.
- Deep cleaning: a longer, more detailed clean, often the first visit or a seasonal clean.
- End of lease cleaning: an empty home cleaned to the standard an agent inspects against.
We don't publish work figures for Adelaide yet: there aren't enough bookings for a number to mean much. How much work you get depends on bookings near you and the hours you set, so we'll be straight with you about that before you start.
What you earn in Adelaide
The starting base rate in Adelaide is $45 an hour, the same as in every city we work in.
You're paid for the cleaning time allocated to each job at your rate, so a job allocated three hours pays $135 at the starting rate. Rates rise with your tier as you build a track record, up to $48 an hour. Same-day jobs carry a $20 bonus, and long drives earn a drive bonus.
Pay goes to your Australian bank account in a weekly pay run, and the app shows your earnings and payouts as you go. As a contractor you cover your own kit, products, travel, tax and insurance from what you earn. How much cleaners get paid compares this with award wages and running your own clients.
How to start
Apply online, complete your checks, and start getting jobs once you're approved.
Apply with your mobile and email
Verify your contact details and tell us about yourself, your experience and how you work. Your progress saves as you go.
Complete your checks
Identity, ABN and bank details, a short standards quiz, the provider agreement, a headshot and your home-base address.
Get approved
Approval happens automatically once every check is complete. We'll tell you if we need anything else.
Set your hours and start
Set your working hours and travel range, then accept jobs in the app within that availability.
What you need
Cleaning experience, an ABN, the right to work in Australia, your own kit, a way to travel with it, and a smartphone.
- Experience. We're looking for people who already clean homes well: solo cleaners, teams and cleaning businesses.
- An ABN. You work as an independent contractor; a cleaning company applies with its company ABN.
- Your own kit. A vacuum, mop, cloths and cleaning products. See equipment and supplies.
- A way to travel with your kit. The application asks about vehicle access and how far you're willing to travel.
- A smartphone. Jobs, checklists and pay are all in the app.
Getting around Adelaide
Adelaide's work runs from the city and inner suburbs out to the hills and the north and south, so set a travel range you're happy to drive with your kit.
Areas we serve in Adelaide
Simply Maid customers book cleans across City and Inner Suburbs, Eastern Suburbs, Adelaide Hills, Western Suburbs, Northern Suburbs and Southern Suburbs. You choose how far from your home base you'll travel.
Questions people ask
How much does a cleaner get paid in Adelaide?
With Simply Maid, the starting base rate in Adelaide is $45 an hour as an independent contractor, paid weekly on the cleaning time allocated to each job. Employed cleaners are paid at least the Cleaning Services Award minimum; our pay guide compares the two.
Do I need experience?
Yes. We're looking for experienced cleaners, teams and cleaning businesses. If you're new to cleaning, our guide to becoming a house cleaner explains how to build experience first.
Do I need an ABN?
Yes. You work as an independent contractor, so you need an ABN. A cleaning company applies with its company ABN.
Is there enough work?
It depends on bookings near you, the hours you set and how far you'll travel. There aren't enough bookings in Adelaide yet for us to publish a figure, so we can't promise a set number of jobs. We never guarantee hours.
Can my partner or team join?
Yes. You can apply as a solo cleaner, a team or a cleaning company, and invite members during onboarding. Each member completes their own checks.
How do I get paid?
Weekly, by bank transfer to your Australian bank account. You can see your earnings and payouts in the app. It's never cash in hand.
When you're ready
Apply for cleaning jobs in Adelaide
Start with your mobile and email. Approval is automatic once your checks are complete.
Start with your mobile and email. Your progress saves as you go.
Sources
Simply Maid's policies are quoted from its cleaner help centre on the date shown. Pay figures are read live from the rates Simply Maid pays.
- Tiers and earnings, Simply Maid cleaner help. Read 6 October 2026. How the tier rates and bonuses work.
- Payment schedule, Simply Maid cleaner help. Read 6 October 2026. When the weekly pay run is paid.
- Application requirements, Simply Maid cleaner help. Read 6 October 2026. What the application asks for.
- Equipment and supplies, Simply Maid cleaner help. Read 6 October 2026. The kit cleaners bring.
- Employment type, Simply Maid cleaner help. Read 6 October 2026. Independent contractor arrangement.
Official rates and rules quoted from the government source on the date shown. General information, not legal, tax or financial advice.