With the flat rate pricing on average during a solid day of work, with 3 three room homes, would make you the carpet cleaning business owner a take home of $255 dollars for a day that started at 9am and end around 2pm give or take an hour averaging about $50 dollars an hour, and the average is nearly $75 an hour.ere is a simple review of how much you could possibly make cleaning carpets. Most carpet cleaning business owners know that there are only two methods of bidding, footage and flat rate.