Price mowing jobs with cost-plus math. Enter lot size or time on site, add labor, overhead, and travel, and get a price per cut and a monthly rate that hit the margin you want.
Fuel, trimmer line, blades, bags, disposal.
Recommended price per cut
$65.54
$281.82 per month
$71.50 per billed hour
Price = (labor + travel + materials + overhead) marked up to hit your target margin. Margin is profit as a share of the final price.
Copying the crew down the street is how you end up busy and broke. Cost-plus pricing builds the number up from what the job actually costs you, then adds profit on top. There are four layers:
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Recurring accounts are the backbone of a lawn care business, so most crews quote a flat monthly rate instead of a per-visit price. The math is simple: price per cut times the visits in a month. Weekly service is about 4.3 visits per month, and every-other-week is about 2.2. The calculator shows both numbers so you can quote monthly with confidence that each visit still clears your cost and margin. To manage those routes and crews once the accounts stack up, see the best lawn care software for small businesses.
A price that works for a solo operator can fall apart the moment you add a helper or a second truck, because labor and travel change. Re-run the numbers as your crew rate and route density shift so margins hold. When you are routing multiple crews across a full day, purpose-built landscaping crew scheduling software keeps drive time down, which is exactly the cost this calculator asks you to price in.
Price from cost, not a competitor's number. Add labor (time on site plus drive time, times your crew rate), materials and fuel, then a slice of overhead. Mark that total up to your target margin. Most residential mows land around $35–$70 per cut, but the right price is whatever covers your cost and leaves the margin you want.
Most weekly residential mows fall between $35 and $70, driven by lot size, terrain, obstacles, and how often you visit. A per-square-foot check of roughly $0.005–$0.02 per sq ft of turf helps on larger properties. Always confirm the number clears your labor, materials, overhead, and profit before you quote it.
Multiply your price per cut by the visits in a month. Weekly service is about 4.3 visits per month, and every-other-week is about 2.2. The calculator does this automatically so you can quote a flat monthly rate that still hits your target margin on each visit.
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