Someone keeping an eye on the building all day.

Day porter services from Fieldstone.

Nightly cleaning resets a building, but the day wears it down again. By early afternoon the restrooms need paper, the breakroom has a sink full of mugs and someone has tracked rain across the lobby.

A Fieldstone day porter works set rounds through your busiest spaces: restroom checks and restocking, lobby and entrance upkeep, breakroom resets, trash runs and quick response to spills.

The porter and the night crew work from the same plan, so daytime touch-ups and the deeper evening cleaning never overlap.

Planning a porter’s rounds.

We start by finding when your building looks its worst. Maybe the restrooms slip by late morning, or the lobby floor goes gray after the lunch crowd, or the breakroom sink fills by two. Those moments set the porter’s route.

A round is a loop with stops, and each stop has a short list: refill, wipe, empty, check. How often the loop repeats follows your traffic. The rounds go into your written plan, and the porter leaves a note for the evening crew about anything that needs a deeper clean.

What a day porter costs

Day porters are billed by the hour. Published rates for 2026 put the typical porter-hour across our service area at $34 to $47, from Sacramento-area routes at the bottom of that band to San Francisco posts at the top. Short, simple routes begin near $30, and demanding posts in large towers reach $57.

Monthly cost is hours times rate. A full-time porter in a San Francisco office tower, on site 40 hours a week, works about 173 hours a month. At $45 an hour, that comes to roughly $7,800 a month for lobbies, restrooms and kitchens that stay in shape all day. A building that only needs coverage from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. books half those hours.

Labor is most of this price, so local wage rates set the floor, and some larger buildings pay union rates above them. The route matters next: a porter covering eight floors of restrooms and kitchens carries more work than one watching a single lobby. Early starts, weekend shifts and coverage booked on short notice all raise the rate. A porter scheduled only for your busiest hours keeps the total down. We plan the hours and the route on the walkthrough and spell them out in a written plan and quote. The cost guide shows porter hours next to nightly rates.