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Biohazard Cleanup Cost: Public Contract Rates

Last reviewed November 2026. Primary sources were accessed November 7, 2026. Dates are Mountain Standard Time (Phoenix).

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The rates below are from state and city facility contracts. They are not a national average and not a price for a house.

What the data shows

Primary sources first. We did not find a government page that states a typical price for cleaning a private home after a trauma. The figures below are facility contracts. Two Maine agreements do not agree with each other, so they are not averaged.

Maine master agreement 18P 250912-045

Public contract · Oct 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2027 · Accessed Nov 7, 2026

Trauma services pricing schedule. Weekday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.: project manager $145 per hour, biohazard supervisor $75, biohazard technician $65. After hours and holidays: project manager $175, supervisor $85, technician $75. A biohazard box, including disposal, is $75 per box. The agreement says trauma and crime-scene cleaning follows the ANSI/IICRC S540 standard. It does not state a price per house.

Confidence: High

Maine master agreement 18P 200522-0147

Public contract · Extension signed Sep 4, 2025; period through May 31, 2026 · Accessed Nov 7, 2026

A different Maine agreement prices bloodborne-pathogen labor much higher, and prices sewer damage on its own line. Bloodborne pathogen, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.: technician $345 per hour, supervisor $380 per hour. From 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m.: technician $518 per hour, supervisor $570 per hour. Sewer damage, daytime: technician $157 per hour, supervisor $175 per hour. After hours: technician $235 per hour, supervisor $263 per hour. Materials are extra and are not given a unit price in that rate section.

Confidence: High

City of Santa Fe contract 24-0458

Public contract · Rate period through Jun 30, 2025 · Accessed Nov 7, 2026

Biohazard remediation for the city: $300 per technician per call-out for 2 hours, then $225 per technician-hour. The call-out includes setup, supplies, equipment, and disposal of one biohazard waste box. Additional boxes are $75 per box. The contract says this rate is valid through June 30, 2025.

Confidence: Low

Residential trauma or biohazard project total

Government / public bid · n/a · Accessed Nov 7, 2026

Not found

Confidence: Low

Typical range for homeowners

Residential project total

Not well documented

Why

The prices we could read are hourly or per call-out for government facilities. Maine's 2025–2027 trauma schedule lists a technician at $65 per hour on weekdays (Maine master agreement 18P 250912-045). A different Maine agreement lists bloodborne-pathogen technician labor at $345 per hour on weekdays (Maine master agreement 18P 200522-0147). Those are different scopes on different contracts. Averaging them would invent a rate nobody published.

Santa Fe call-out

$300 per technician for the first two hours, then $225 per technician-hour, with one waste box included and extra boxes at $75 (City of Santa Fe contract 24-0458). The contract says that rate ran through June 30, 2025, so it is not a current price.

What it is not

A national homeowner average. No source we read states one. A lower hourly rate can still cost more if the job takes more people, more hours, or more disposal boxes.

Confidence

Low for a homeowner total. High that each contract states its own rates.

What the contracts say changes the bill

  • Which scope is on the work order. Trauma labor, bloodborne-pathogen labor, and sewer labor are separate rate tables on the Maine agreements (Maine master agreement 18P 250912-045, Maine master agreement 18P 200522-0147).
  • Time of day. After-hours rates are higher on both Maine agreements.
  • Disposal. Maine's trauma schedule prices a biohazard box at $75. Santa Fe includes one box in the call-out and prices extras at $75 (City of Santa Fe contract 24-0458).
  • The Santa Fe rate period ended June 30, 2025. Treat that row as a past public price, not a bid you should expect now.

FAQ

How much does trauma or biohazard cleanup cost?

A homeowner project total was not found. Public contracts bill by the hour or by the call-out. On Maine's trauma schedule, a weekday technician is $65 per hour and a supervisor is $75 (Maine master agreement 18P 250912-045).

Why are the two Maine hourly rates so far apart?

They are different agreements and different scopes. The trauma schedule's weekday technician rate is $65. The other agreement's weekday bloodborne-pathogen technician rate is $345 (Maine master agreement 18P 200522-0147). We did not average them.

Is the Santa Fe price still current?

The contract text says the rate is valid through June 30, 2025. We accessed it on November 7, 2026, after that date, so the row is marked low confidence (City of Santa Fe contract 24-0458).

What is left out of an hourly rate?

On the bloodborne agreement, materials are billed as needed and the rate section does not give them a unit price (Maine master agreement 18P 200522-0147). On the trauma schedule, disposal boxes are a separate $75 line after the labor rate (Maine master agreement 18P 250912-045).

Can I budget a house from these rates?

Not from this page. Ask each company for the scope, the hours, who is on site, disposal, and what is excluded. Compare those lines rather than the hourly rate alone.

Does the directory check a trauma-cleanup company?

A listing means a license on record from a roster the directory ingested. It is not a review of a bid, and it is not a statement that a company is the right one for a trauma scene. Confirm the current roster status with the issuing agency.

How we built these numbers

  • Source order: we start with government sources (EPA, HUD, state agencies), then public bid or contract unit prices (state contracts, school districts, cities), then industry survey data. Angi, HomeAdvisor, This Old House, HomeGuide and Fixr are shown only in a separate consumer-reported section and are not used to set the headline ranges.
  • Each figure in the tables is one we read on the cited page or document, with the source type, year, link, confidence and the date we accessed it (Mountain Standard Time, Phoenix). Where we found nothing, the table says Not found.
  • Typical ranges are our own arithmetic, with one sentence on how each was derived. We do not average bids of different scope, and a range is only as good as the sources it rests on, which is why each one carries a confidence rating.
  • Public bid prices are unit prices from institutional buyers, and they may include prevailing-wage rules and larger project sizes. They are examples of what contractors bid, not residential averages.
  • We do not use proprietary estimating databases such as RSMeans, Xactimate or HomeWyse, and we do not quote them.
  • We plan to add quotes collected from contractors in our directory later, and will label them as a separate source type.
  • Confidence key: High means a government source states the figure directly or two independent primary sources agree. Medium means one primary source read in full, or primary sources that agree only loosely. Low means dated before 2022, unclear scope, a program budget estimate or a single source. Consumer-reported rows are capped at Medium.
  • We refresh figures at least twice a year and show the last-reviewed date. Where a contractor listing is mentioned, the directory's phrase is license on record.

Sources

Contractors by state

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