A Brisbane woman has shared how she is pulling in $3,803 a week after quitting her job in the childcare industry to start her own cleaning business. The cleaner said she was earning “so much more” than her previous gig and putting in “half” the effort.

Stephanie Brown had been working in the childcare industry for nine years and worked her way up to an assistant director, earning about $1,200 a week. The 30-year-old told Yahoo Finance she was “always on call” and found it was a “very rough industry to work for so little pay”.

Brown said she and a colleague got the idea to start a cleaning business after hearing from parents and families that they were desperate for help around the house following the pandemic.

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“We were both in the childcare industry and we were hearing so many of the parents and families saying how much they really wanted cleaners because of COVID,” she said.

“Everything sort of shifted hygiene-wise and there was such a shortage in our area.”

Brown said the pair decided to give it a crack and opened up their own cleaning business.

Brown initially dropped down to a casual at her childcare job, but within two weeks she ended up quitting her job to do the business full-time.

Within a month, she said the business was “pretty much fully booked out”, with the pair finding cleaning work through families at the childcare centre, word of mouth and later through advertising on Facebook.

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Business earning $3,803 a week

Brown and her business partner built the business up over two years before deciding to go their separate ways and open their own separate cleaning businesses.

Brown now owns Steph’s Glowing Cleans, which does end-of-lease cleans, window jobs, driveway pressure hosing and commercial jobs.

She has three subcontractors she works with.

Brown recently shared a video online showing how much she was able to make through the business on a typical week, which has racked up thousands of views.

She made $1,140 on Monday, $463 on Tuesday, $975 on Wednesday, $400 on Thursday and $825 on Friday, totaling $3,803 for the week.

“That would be a baseline and it would be a minimum. More would come through if I have more clients come through,” she told Yahoo Finance.

Brown said she was able to make this with the help of subcontractors, who she will hire for bond cleans, deep cleans and some commercial work, while she focuses on regular residential cleaning.