Enter the lot size in square feet or acres and subtract the house, driveway and beds to get the mowable area. Price it per 1,000 square feet or by the hour using your mower's speed, add edging, trimming, leaf removal or fertilising, and choose weekly or every-two-weeks service. You get a per-visit price, monthly and season totals, a quote to send and a price list for your website. Every rate on this page is an editable starting assumption, not market data. Prices vary a lot by city, job and business, so replace them with your own numbers or with what you know local competitors charge.
A quarter acre is 10,890 square feet. Minus a 1,800 sq ft house and 600 sq ft of driveway leaves 8,490 square feet. At an example rate of $5 per 1,000 square feet, mowing is $42.45 a visit. Adding edging at $10 and trimming at $8 gives $60.45 per visit.
Weekly over a 30-week season is 30 visits, so the season total is $1,813.50, or about $262 a month while the season runs (4.33 visits a month). If your minimum charge is $45 and a customer only wants mowing, the $42.45 rises to the $45 minimum.
If your mower and crew cover about 20,000 square feet an hour on open lawn, 8,490 square feet takes about 0.42 hours. Add 15 minutes of setup and the visit is 0.67 hours. At $60 an hour that is $40.47, and the minimum charge would apply. That shows why small lawns need a minimum: the setup time is a big share of the job.
Take the lot size and subtract the house footprint, the driveway, patios and planted beds. For example, a quarter-acre lot is 10,890 square feet; minus a 1,800 sq ft house and 600 sq ft of driveway leaves 8,490 square feet to mow.
Start with the hourly rate you need to cover costs and pay yourself (the hourly rate calculator on this site helps), then turn it into a rate per 1,000 square feet using your real mowing speed. The rates prefilled here are placeholders, not market prices.
Per 1,000 square feet is easy to quote from a map before you visit. Hourly with mower speed is better when lawns have many obstacles or slopes. You can compare both here with the same lawn.
Weekly service averages about 4.33 visits a month (52 weeks divided by 12) and every two weeks about 2.17. The calculator uses those averages and also shows the season total from the number of weeks you mow.
No. They are editable starting assumptions so the calculator can show a result. Replace them with your own rates.
Yes. The price list snippet gives you HTML or plain text with your per-visit prices and add-ons that you can paste into any website builder.
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