Raleigh, North Carolina
I’m based in Morrisville and have been in the Raleigh area since 2002. I work with cleaning businesses nationwide, and the Raleigh area is home base. For a Raleigh cleaning company the local picture is short: North Carolina doesn’t allow local minimum wages, so Raleigh follows the state’s $7.25, and cleaning real property is exempt from state sales tax with a few exceptions.
On minimum wage, Raleigh has nothing of its own to add, because North Carolina doesn’t let cities set one. On sales tax, the state exemption for cleaning real property does most of the work. Below is the wage question, the sales tax picture, where the rest of the state rules live, and how to reach me.
North Carolina law preempts local minimum wages, so Raleigh can’t set a rate above the state’s. That leaves Raleigh at the state rate, which is the federal $7.25 an hour. City minimum wages you may have read about elsewhere don’t reach crews working here.
Source: North Carolina General Assembly, G.S. 95-25.1(d) Preemption
Source: North Carolina Department of Labor, Minimum Wage in North Carolina
Cleaning real property is exempt from North Carolina sales tax under G.S. 105-164.13(61a)d. The exceptions are cleaning that is part of taxable accommodations and cleaning of pools and similar aquatic features, and the full list is on the North Carolina sales tax page. This page doesn’t cover local sales tax rates. Whether a particular job is taxable is a question for your CPA.
Withholding, unemployment insurance registration, and the employee or subcontractor test are state rules, so I keep them in one place on the North Carolina page.
Figure Eight Financial is at 104 Bending Oak Way, Morrisville, NC 27560, and the phone number is (919)-460-5383. I’d like to claim that living nearby makes me a sharper bookkeeper, but I’m the guy who gets genuinely excited when a bank reconciliation ties out to the penny, and that excitement travels just fine over the phone. Whether your crews work in Raleigh or three states away, the books get kept the same way.
Rules checked against the sources above as of October 20, 2026. Rates and rules change; confirm current figures with the agency or your CPA.
About Figure Eight Financial
Figure Eight Financial is Dave Gordon’s bookkeeping practice for residential and commercial cleaning companies. I work with owners in Raleigh and across the country, and I’m a Certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor.
Before bookkeeping I studied computer science at Penn State and spent a career at IBM as an engineer, so I build the books as a system: data comes in once, lands in the right place, and ties back to a statement. I’m a bookkeeper, not a CPA or Enrolled Agent. I keep the books your CPA works from, and the tax decisions stay with your CPA.
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Raleigh is home base, and the local rules here are short: no city minimum wage, and cleaning real property is exempt from state sales tax with a few exceptions. That leaves your books to handle the everyday work, like flagging the occasional job that falls outside the exemption and booking labor at what you actually pay. Whether your crews are in Raleigh or three states away, book a short call below and tell me where your books stand today.
The core service. Transactions recorded and categorized, every account reconciled so the books and the bank agree, and monthly reports that arrive explained, split by residential and commercial and sliceable per contract.
The full picture of how this works for a cleaning companyFor the months where nothing got entered at all. I fill in the missing periods from the ground up, pulling bank feeds, statements, and receipts until every month has a complete set of records.
How catch-up bookkeeping worksFor books that exist but can’t be trusted. I audit what’s there, fix the unreconciled accounts, duplicate transactions, and wrong categories, and tie every balance back to a statement.
How cleanup bookkeeping worksYour crews paid on time, every pay period, with each payroll run recorded in the books so labor shows up against the jobs it belongs to.
How payroll worksRecurring invoices that match your contracts, an aging report you can trust, and follow-up on slow payers handled by a process instead of your evenings. Built for net-60 commercial accounts.
How invoicing and receivables workA file built right for a cleaning company from day one, or rebuilt after the DIY version drifts, and then I teach you to run it. I’m a Certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor, and this is honestly my favorite part of the job.
How a proper setup worksWe start with a short call about your business and where the books stand. The first conversation doesn’t cost anything.
I take a look at what you’ve got, your QuickBooks file, your spreadsheet, whatever exists.
You get a written proposal with the price, so the decision is yours with the number in hand.
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