Lawn Care Pricing Calculator

Price a recurring property the way it is actually worked: one visit at a time. Put in the size, how long a round takes, what an hour of crew time costs you and the margin you want. You get the visit price and what the season adds up to.

Property size you maintain

The area you actually cut or tend, not the lot size on the listing.

Size unit

Hours one visit takes

From the moment you park until you drive away, for one person. If more than one person works, the crew size below multiplies these hours.

What an hour of crew time costs you

Wages plus what you pay on top of them. Not what you charge for the hour.

People on the property

How many of you are on site for those hours. Two people for half an hour is an hour of labor.

Margin you want to keep

Margin is the part of the PRICE you keep. It is not a percent added to the cost. To get the price we divide the cost by 1 minus the margin. A 35% margin on a $65 cost gives a $100 price, because 65 ÷ 0.65 = 100.

Result

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This is a calculator, not advice. Check the numbers against your own records before you price a job.

How recurring lawn work is priced

Recurring work is quoted once and worked twenty or thirty times. That is what makes it different from a one-off job: a visit price that is five dollars light is not a five-dollar mistake. It is five dollars every time you pull up for the rest of the season. So the number to get right is the visit, and the season looks after itself.

The length of the stop decides almost everything. Property size is a useful sanity check and a fair way to compare two lawns, but it is the minutes that cost money. A fenced yard with three gates and a trampoline takes longer than an open one of the same area, and it should not be priced the same. Crew size multiplies those minutes: two people for forty-five minutes is an hour and a half of labor to pay for.

Read the profit per visit next to the cost of ten extra minutes. If ten minutes takes most of what the stop makes, the price has no room in it and the first hot week will show you. Drive time belongs in the same reading, because the gap between stops is time nobody pays for.

The common mistake is quoting a whole season off one walk around the property in spring. Time an actual round instead, on a normal week, and price from that. Zeus clocks the crew in against the property and holds every past round on that job record, so next spring the renewal is priced from what the stop really took.

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