Comparison Of Labor And Machine Costs For Escalator Cleaning
May 16, 2021
Let us do a comparison of labor and machine costs for escalator cleaning as follows.
Manual cleaning cost:
There are about 20 escalators in a medium-sized shopping mall, which are cleaned every 10 days on average and 36 times a year. Cleaning a 15-meter-long escalator requires two labors, the labor cost is about 80 yuan per person, the labor cost of cleaning an escalator is 160 yuan per time, and the cost of towels and brushes is about 2,000 yuan.
Total cost of manual cleaning: 20*36*160+2000=117200 (per year).
Machine cleaning cost:
There are about 20 escalators in a medium-sized shopping mall, which are cleaned every 10 days on average and 36 times a year. It takes about 15 minutes for the machine to clean a 15-meter-long escalator, and it only costs 2.5 yuan per labor. The annual use cost of the machine is about 7000 yuan (including maintenance consumables) according to 5 years of depreciation
The total cost of machine cleaning: 20*36*2.5+7000=8800 yuan (per year).
Conclusion: After comparison of labor and machine costs for escalator cleaning, we can have clear information that it will be much more cost by using escalator cleaning machine than labor to do the cleaning work. A escalator cleaning machine can save you 117200-8800=108400 yuan per year.
