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Lawn Care Pricing Calculator

Do the costing math once. Get your true billable man-hour rate and a ready-to-publish 5-tier rate card — then quote in seconds.

1 · Monthly overhead

Your fixed monthly costs. Leave anything blank — it counts as $0.

Vehicle payment + insurance

Equipment replacement reserve

Equipment maintenance & parts

Fuel

Business insurance

Phone / software / website

Marketing

Other (accounting, licenses, storage)

Monthly overhead: $0

2 · Crew & capacity

Crew size

1 2 3

Hours worked per person per week

Billable percentage 60%

Billable means productive time on a customer's property. Drive time, maintenance, quoting, and rain days are not billable. Most operators land between 55% and 65% — inflating this is the fastest way to underprice everything below.

Billable man-hours / month: 0

3 · Labor

Average hourly wage

Labor burden % Employer taxes, unemployment, and workers' comp — high in landscaping.

4 · Route productivity & margin

Lawns completed on a normal day Length of that day (hours)

Target net margin 30%

Your rate card

$0.00 / billable man-hour

Break-even $0.00 — below this you are paying to mow.

Price per mow (weekly)

Small · under 5,000 sq ft	—
Medium · 5,000–10,000 sq ft	—
Large · 10,000–15,000 sq ft	—
Extra large · 15,000–20,000 sq ft	—
Over 20,000 sq ft	Site visit

Difficult property surcharge

Frequency

Weekly = base · Biweekly +15% · Monthly +35%. Biweekly costs more per visit, not less — the grass is longer and the job takes longer.

Price floor (minimum charge)

This is a starting point, not gospel. Validate it against ten real jobs before you publish it.

You just built a rate card. Sorvius turns it into bookings.

Load these tiers into Sorvius and customers answer a few questions about their property, see your price, pick a start date, and leave a card — while you're on a mower.

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