Commercial Floor Care by State: 2026 Facility and Labor Data

Name: Commercial Floor Care by State: 2026 Facility and Labor Data
Creator: TCS Floors Inc.
Published: 2026-09-18

How many commercial facilities, schools and hospitals each state has, what cleaning labor costs there, and how much rain its floors deal with. Public data for the 30 states TCS Floors lists for commercial floor care, compiled from federal sources.

Compiled by TCS Floors Inc. from U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, CMS, NCES and NOAA data. Data collected September 18, 2026.

Key findings

Every figure below comes from a federal dataset named under the chart and in the methodology. Comparisons are among the 30 states in this report only.

Janitors and cleaners earn the most on average in New York ($44,830) and the least in Mississippi ($29,790), a gap of $15,040 a year.
California has the most operating public schools (10,279); Texas has the most Medicare-registered hospitals (467).
California has the largest janitorial services industry by employment (116,330 people across 6,956 establishments).
Louisiana is the wettest state in the report, averaging 59.7 inches of precipitation a year from 1991 to 2020; Colorado is the driest at 18.0 inches.

State-by-state table

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State-by-state table
											TCS page
Alabama	17,877	10,067	11,562	297	1,512	99	726	25,110	$32,260	56.9
Arkansas	10,566	6,577	9,072	200	1,081	90	471	19,490	$31,640	52.5
California	106,675	95,952	132,345	2,801	10,279	377	6,956	234,240	$44,210	22.3	View
Colorado	18,589	15,405	19,456	317	1,889	96	1,571	34,220	$41,820	18.0
Florida	75,988	48,853	73,984	1,080	4,184	221	6,675	131,900	$35,060	54.4	View
Georgia	35,820	24,406	30,047	1,037	2,308	149	2,013	55,660	$34,400	50.4
Illinois	35,801	30,226	37,597	976	4,376	193	2,520	93,760	$40,750	40.7	View
Indiana	21,015	14,708	19,159	598	1,892	148	1,217	49,220	$36,790	43.6
Iowa	10,970	7,512	9,092	257	1,306	118	647	23,960	$36,700	35.5
Kansas	9,580	6,658	9,075	220	1,342	139	642	17,220	$34,950	29.0
Kentucky	15,020	8,754	12,636	342	1,526	103	659	25,750	$34,750	50.4
Louisiana	15,868	10,548	13,331	246	1,301	161	655	27,610	$30,290	59.7
Michigan	32,868	21,720	28,979	587	3,469	149	1,712	65,790	$37,040	33.9
Minnesota	17,727	12,374	19,985	285	2,646	136	1,391	42,300	$41,300	28.6
Mississippi	11,303	6,301	7,038	216	1,019	109	382	15,940	$29,790	58.5
Missouri	19,971	13,846	20,637	433	2,457	120	1,194	41,070	$37,280	43.5
Nebraska	6,925	4,882	6,363	127	1,089	93	519	12,860	$37,340	24.2
New York	71,941	55,397	61,104	707	4,788	192	3,762	195,250	$44,830	43.5	View
North Carolina	35,534	24,293	27,809	580	2,698	120	2,277	53,330	$34,090	50.8
North Dakota	3,103	2,154	2,429	55	501	47	250	6,720	$40,220	18.9
Ohio	34,275	25,953	31,168	950	3,548	193	1,960	72,540	$37,560	41.1	View
Oklahoma	13,097	8,965	11,795	193	1,765	136	606	23,620	$32,280	36.4	View
Pennsylvania	40,238	29,187	39,602	908	2,914	186	2,456	86,920	$37,780	45.0	View
South Carolina	18,647	12,228	12,694	413	1,254	66	1,094	30,100	$32,720	48.3
South Dakota	3,838	2,696	2,829	37	698	61	270	8,630	$36,360	21.2
Tennessee	23,463	15,443	17,524	605	1,880	121	1,182	38,120	$34,650	55.1
Texas	84,369	66,844	80,576	2,003	9,078	467	3,858	184,840	$33,890	28.6	View
Virginia	25,872	19,418	23,812	439	2,116	96	2,136	65,970	$36,490	45.8
West Virginia	5,696	3,684	5,019	62	681	55	194	9,340	$33,190	47.0
Wisconsin	18,044	15,530	17,592	448	2,214	140	1,267	45,640	$38,550	34.0

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025 annual estimates.

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital General Information, dataset updated July 22, 2026.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, 2023.

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Climate at a Glance, statewide time series, 1991 to 2020.

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What janitorial labor costs by state

Annual mean wage for janitors and cleaners (occupation 37-2011), all industries. A benchmark for what in-house cleaning labor costs from one state to the next.

New York$44,830
California$44,210
Colorado$41,820
Minnesota$41,300
Illinois$40,750
North Dakota$40,220
Wisconsin$38,550
Pennsylvania$37,780
Ohio$37,560
Nebraska$37,340
Missouri$37,280
Michigan$37,040
Indiana$36,790
Iowa$36,700
Virginia$36,490
South Dakota$36,360
Florida$35,060
Kansas$34,950
Kentucky$34,750
Tennessee$34,650
Georgia$34,400
North Carolina$34,090
Texas$33,890
West Virginia$33,190
South Carolina$32,720
Oklahoma$32,280
Alabama$32,260
Arkansas$31,640
Louisiana$30,290
Mississippi$29,790

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025 annual estimates.

Schools, hospitals and retail: the floor-care footprint

Three kinds of facility with large areas of hard flooring to maintain. Public schools and hospitals are counted from their own federal registers, because County Business Patterns leaves out most government-run facilities.

Public schools

California10,279
Texas9,078
New York4,788
Illinois4,376
Florida4,184
Ohio3,548
Michigan3,469
Pennsylvania2,914
North Carolina2,698
Minnesota2,646
Missouri2,457
Georgia2,308
Wisconsin2,214
Virginia2,116
Indiana1,892

Source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, 2023.

Hospitals

Texas467
California377
Florida221
Illinois193
Ohio193
New York192
Pennsylvania186
Louisiana161
Georgia149
Michigan149
Indiana148
Wisconsin140
Kansas139
Minnesota136
Oklahoma136

Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital General Information, dataset updated July 22, 2026.

Retail establishments

California106,675
Texas84,369
Florida75,988
New York71,941
Pennsylvania40,238
Georgia35,820
Illinois35,801
North Carolina35,534
Ohio34,275
Michigan32,868
Virginia25,872
Tennessee23,463
Indiana21,015
Missouri19,971
South Carolina18,647

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023.

Rain, grit and floors: precipitation by state

Average annual precipitation, 1991 to 2020. Water, and the grit tracked in with it, is hard on floor finish at entrances, so wetter states ask more of entry matting and of the finish itself.

Louisiana59.7
Mississippi58.5
Alabama56.9
Tennessee55.1
Florida54.4
Arkansas52.5
North Carolina50.8
Georgia50.4
Kentucky50.4
South Carolina48.3
West Virginia47.0
Virginia45.8
Pennsylvania45.0
Indiana43.6
New York43.5
Missouri43.5
Ohio41.1
Illinois40.7
Oklahoma36.4
Iowa35.5
Wisconsin34.0
Michigan33.9
Kansas29.0
Texas28.6
Minnesota28.6
Nebraska24.2
California22.3
South Dakota21.2
North Dakota18.9
Colorado18.0

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Climate at a Glance, statewide time series, 1991 to 2020.

Methodology and sources

This report covers the 30 states TCS Floors lists for commercial floor care. All figures were collected by script on September 18, 2026 directly from the publishers named below, and each value was checked against the publisher's raw file or response. Nothing is estimated or modeled by TCS Floors.

Establishments and employment by sector come from the U.S. Census Bureau's County Business Patterns, 2023. County Business Patterns counts private business establishments and leaves out most government employees, so public schools and public hospitals are under-represented in its education and health figures. That is why schools and hospitals are also shown from their own registers.

To protect confidentiality the Census Bureau adds a small amount of statistical noise to employment figures and flags how much: G means the value was changed by less than 2 percent, H by at least 2 but less than 5 percent. Every employment figure here is flagged G or H. Warehousing employment is flagged H in 20 of the 30 states. Establishment counts carry no noise flag.

"Janitors and cleaners" is an occupation measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics across every industry, including people employed directly by schools, hospitals and offices. "Janitorial services" is an industry (NAICS 561720) measured by the Census Bureau: companies whose business is cleaning. The two are different measures and should not be added or compared directly.

Hospitals are those in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital General Information dataset, which lists hospitals registered with Medicare. Public schools are operating schools in the National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data for 2023, retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal; private schools are not included.

Precipitation is the mean of the 30 annual statewide totals from 1991 to 2020 published by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.

U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. Accessed September 18, 2026.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025 annual estimates. Accessed September 18, 2026.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospital General Information, dataset updated July 22, 2026. Accessed September 18, 2026.
National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, 2023. Accessed September 18, 2026.
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Climate at a Glance, statewide time series, 1991 to 2020. Accessed September 18, 2026.

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