Complete Guide: How to Price Lawn Care, Mowing and Landscaping Jobs (IMPORTANT)
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Making $45-60/hr first week of my business. I'm grateful God has given me 7 recurring customers already with a push mower. Imagine how my hourly rate will change with a faster mower or even more skill as the months and years go by
Well my idea of recurring wasn't truly recurring, but I have 4-5 actually biweekly customers right now. And I'm doing my first mulch bed restoration in June
Keep up the good work. God bless
God didn't do anything, you did. Be proud
To GOD be all the glory.
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Awesome backdrops! I liked the outdoor videos better than in the studio. Great knowledge Mike! Thanks
As always super informative. I’ve been listening to your podcasts, but just now breaking into the videos. Keep up the great work!
This is pure gold! Great content man. This is helpful as I grow my own landscaping business.
You're more than welcome.Paul
Great information Mike. This really got me thinking about my numbers and making sure I stay profitable but within range of my area rates. I’ve found that just being a nice guy helps a lot with the decision to hire you! Politeness, mom was right!
Great direction and Thank you . I’m really learning how to factor all that I do in watching this. While trying to be fair I do want to reward myself for my hard work which I do surgically at best
I think anyone starting out needs this exact advise, no one can give someone an exact number, just a rough one. Then figure out what to do when you have the number you are looking for. You have just given a tool for most startups to implement. 👍🇨🇦
Great content of the different styles keep it coming big help
Thanks for sharing some valuable information that can be used in any service based business. Failing to consider all the know cost and adding in the estimated unknown cost can lead to failure.
Mike this info just you gave is the best info and one point then any other person that post. Thank you so much and continue the great info. You are a bless to this market then you now.
Thank you this helps me.
Thanks, Mike. You should, without doubt, have more subscribers.
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Great video as always.
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Mike,
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Thanks for the content.
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Liking the video editing, and awesome content as always! Appreciate you sharing this info!
Good information mike
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Great video! This really helped me make my business better!
LE Landscaping. Me too! Will defiantly give you a subscribe!
How was your 2021 season? This is my first season this year. Really looking forward to starting my business
1:11 love this momment
Nice.
Sometimes forget to think about efee & dump fee.
I started as a solo operation, at a rate of $1 per minute, or $60 per hour. I pay myself a rate of $20 per hour.
Good video but two key points I think you missed on is mowing should be a higher hourly rate than clean ups. So if I charge $55 or $65 per hour to weed or prune or fall cleanup/ spring cleanup. I am going to charge $85 per hour to mow. If that lawn is going to take you a half hour to mow you should be charging $42 and if it's going to take you 1 hour ( and this were people struggle) you got to charge $85. ( Scared to charge $85) ALSO commercial accounts should be a higher hourly rate. If residential is $55 than commercial should be $75. And yes all this is PER MAN HOUR. even mowing. If I can get lawn mowed in 1 hour myself I hope two guys can get it mowed in a half hour. You do start to lose production with three guys and so on ( mowing). The numbers just start not working as efficient as one guy or two guys. Actually maybe you could do a video on that, a two guy mowing crew versus a three guy? Feel free to let me know if you disagree on something. Actually this is where they might not be money in mowing actually. The mowing wouldn't actually be per man hour it would be 85 an hour. Because of it took two guys to mow a lawn at 85 per man hour and they got it done and a half hour you'd have to charge $85 for the lawn which is what it should be but we just can't charge that. Maybe you can elaborate more. So I actually wear mowing at a very a lower for a man hour rate Maybe more like 45 per man hour two guys equals $90 per man hour if they can mow the lawn in a half hour you charge $45. But this is the problem of mowing this chest not enough money in it to charge the customer the true cost of what it should be you know they'd be paying $75 or $100 a cut and they just not going to pay that. Actually I take that back mowing should be 85 per man hour as well. PER MAN HOUR. If too if it takes two guys a half hour to mow lawn you should be charging 85 bucks The problem is is most people are just not / can't. If any companies out there have two guys taking a half hour to mow a lawn and charging $85 to mow it please chime in. And if you are getting the 85 then you're doing things correct and you're on a roll. On if anybody wants to know why Mowing should be more. Well I can come to your house and pull weeds with just my hand and a barre butl you're pulling up to a customer's house with a $50,000 dump truck and $10,000 trailer to walker mowers at $15,000 a piece a $2,000 a 30-inch or a $6000 36 mower. backpack blowers weed wackers etc. That's a regular setup in our area or wright standers maybe one 52 and one 48
If Millennials will pay $16 for Doordash to deliver them food from the Taco Bell that’s 5 minutes from their house, I don’t think it’ll be hard to get $85 out of them for mowing their lawn 😂😂
You underestimate how lazy these upcoming generations are.
Bayg clippings 😂 it always makes me giggle lol.
I understand your pricing for mowing, you should triple the man hour rate. How do you figure this if you have two men working on a lawn and their rate is different from each other. For example one gets $10 an hour and another gets $15 an hour and they're at a loan for an hour on the same lawn?
Great video thank you! When you mark up materials do you charge for delivery of the materials as well or is that markup supposed to cover that?
We charge delivery
If your just getting started and you go look at a yard. How do you know how long it will take and what to charge.
Mike, what work pants are those?
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Mike, you stated that for lawn care it should be at least double the hourly rate. Should it be double per employee? so a 12.00 employee x 2 employees x 2 = 48.00 per hour you should charge?
I meant double hourly rate of one employee... as a rule of thumb (that’s the minimum range)
It takes me about 50 mins to an hr to cut my yards especially when they have a fence that I can’t fit my zero turn in & I have to push mow it I offer mowing trimming edging & blowing for weeklys & biweeklys but I’m solo do you think 50 dollars is to much? that’s what I like to charge for every hour I live in Florida
$50 is fair ✅🌟
For basic lawn mowing, do you price over the phone or visit the customer, and it's by total lot square feet or do you measure just the grass area?
I'm struggling to find a formula to price mowing without having to go visit every lead
I use Google maps just zoom in on the lot and you can tell
You should be able to look up the property on the state website where they do the property taxes and it will give you the lot size. I'd also suggest you leave negotiation room just in case the lawn needs a clean up before you get to the normal mowing job because people are people and won't tell you that the law is a foot high. Basically, I am saying you can quote over the phone but let them know that the charge can change if the lawn needs a ton of initial work.
I’m using 1 cent per square foot usually but my minimum is $35-$40
Plant markup here is 2.5X installed
Where is here? In South Florida, I was told it's 2x the cost of material. But I don't always do it that way, because I can buy a bag of rocks for $5 or $30. So I usually charge a flat rate per item. The plants depends on the size. Bigger plant means more work.
Liked & subscribed my man. Do you do detailed, itemized bids with broken down prices?
I started doing that a few years back. Then I sold everything, took a leap of faith, got into social work & am now super ready to do it again.
The time away was a nice time of reflection. Perhaps a needed moratorium. I'm starting out at zero this season. I had my business for 11 years. I had 136 lawn clients when I quit.
Itemized and detailed 👍🏻✅
@@MikeAndes my man. You are quite remarkable.
Thank you brother. I'm looking into your course after work. I like the work & am content making 100k year. It's peaceful for me. That being said, you've captured my interest. I'm very thankful to have come across you.
Have a blessed one 😎
im 20 looking to start my own lawn care bussniess. i did research on other local bussniess and saw that they offer alot of stuff other then just grass care? i only know about grass care not much about how to do certain things like floor beds and top soils and stuff like that? should i stick with what i know or try and branch out and learn mower and what your suggestion to learn? i mean not many courses out there.
Talking to a local supplier like SiteOne is a great start
You need to have a yearly budget including all costs- wages, deprecation, overhead, taxes plus profit divided by time. Not that difficult a concept.
Maybe not difficult of a concept but the application of said concept is the challenge.
Otherwise anyone would be doing it..
I’m in year 2
Year 1 of my business was just understanding what I am capable of doing on my own.
Boils down to
Basic lawncare, spring/fall clean ups
Mulch, aeration and seeding are what I can do.
This year I am focusing on those services until I can’t handle it on my own and need a part timer.
Now apply the “concept” while doing everything else and your brain will bust if you’re not too careful.
Fuel cost r going up now what
This video might be helpful: ua-cam.com/video/dXOPm7YoTWo/v-deo.html
Shoot I don’t cut for under $75
I'm just starting out here in Georgia and have a push mower. I've got 2 properties that I'm trying to figure out how to charge on. I'm solo. One property is 10k sqft the other 9k. Both have bushes and shrubs that needs maintenance....how much would you charge for those....I'm thinking like $80 each...don't know if that's too high or low.
I'm thinking I've got to pick up and bag bush and shrub clippings and edging...it's gonna take alot of time.
I’d say minimum $100 i have a 4,500 square foot property I charge $50-60 depending on length each week.
But what about when Ur working by yourself
It's still better to up charge specially if your planning to expand in the future, changing your prices after developing a relationship with your client sometimes can be difficult.
Me, a caveman charging $35/hr per man lol
This is why I don't hire companies
Why?
@@MikeAndes firstly; I completely agree with you as a business owner in your pricing. My point of view is regarding the market-area I'm in, and as an independent consumer or low income operation. What I mean for that is, for hourly focused services (i.e. janitorial, security guards, facility administration, etc.) it's difficult to 'hire' a company to do the job at the rate that you explain (3X); and even though, where I'm from, usually the services provided by companies are priced about 1.75X "man" hours if they are hourly focused . For services like yours; independent contractors or companies that charge a monthly or recurring service fee the hourly factor doesn't come into effect. Just a rate for a corresponding or specialized service in the market. Is like... businesses serve businesses and independent contractors serve households. Respect what you've done being so young, and sharing it with us all. Now seeing my comment, I don't like how I addressed my comment without prior explanation. It's salty, when all you have done is given a blueprint in your process...giving value. That's why you are where you are, and I'm here writing.