After graduating with a diploma in business administration in Vancouver, Roma got hired as an executive assistant to Fred, the director of operations at a local tech company. She has been working at the job for the past three months. Her role includes scheduling and attending meetings, sending emails, and booking travel and entertainment for visitors to the company headquarters in Vancouver. She works part-time 5 days a week from 8 am to noon and is paid about $40,000 annually.

During her free time, Roma volunteers as a cleaner for a not-for-profit organization called Keeping It Hygienic. The organization supports people with mental and physical disabilities by helping to keep their homes clean. The organization is run by donations made possible by large corporate donors, community partners, and volunteers like Roma.

Although she enjoys the hustle and bustle of the corporate environment, Roma feels much more satisfied with her volunteer work with Keeping It Hygienic.

Sensing that she may not be happy, Fred has offered Roma a full-time position with the company, upping her salary to $80,000 per year plus benefits.

At the same time, due to her enthusiasm and great effort at Keeping It Hygienic, the President of the not-for-profit organization has offered her a position as Head Coordinator. This position would entail working more complex jobs and scheduling/coordinating the other volunteers within the organization.

Even though Roma is excited about both offers, she has always wanted to pursue entrepreneurship. Hence, she is contemplating starting her own cleaning business. To kick things off, she has researched and gathered some numbers. Admittedly, accounting was the worst subject in her diploma, so she seeks your help analyzing her options.

Roma sees a trend of individuals getting busier and, consequently, needing more time or energy to keep their homes clean and organized. With her home cleaning/organizing business, she could help people maintain tidy and organized homes. Also, due to the pandemic, corporations and larger residential complexes seek more frequent cleaning to reduce pathogens, viruses, and bacteria.

With the help of her parents, Roma has saved $8,500 to invest in her business.

If she were to start her own housekeeping business, Roma forecasts these figures: Type	Cost	Frequency	Average Time	Tasks
House cleaning for individuals	$65/hour	Once a week	2 hours	General Housekeeping, dusting, bathrooms, kitchen deep scrub, mopping floors, and vacuuming.
Common Areas of Residential Building	$45/hour	Twice a week	4 hours	Vacuuming hallways, spraying down windows and doors, cleaning walls and floors of elevators, cleaning gym or common facilities in apartment buildings.
Corporate Cleaning	$40/hour	Five days a week	1.5 hours	Daily dusting, cleaning floors, cleaning surfaces, restocking supplies, and emptying trash cans. Cleaning individual offices, restrooms, break rooms, and common areas.
Special Projects	$80/hour	As needed, likely once a season	Minimum of 16 hours (usually spread across a weekend)	Specialized cleaning or organizing projects, such as deep cleaning carpets or organizing files.
CloudBnB	$100 per job	Higher frequency during tourism seasons winter and summer	Flat $100 per cleaning. Varies from 1 hour to 3 hours	Vacation short-term rental properties that need to be cleaned between stays.