What Do We Charge For A Leaf Cleanup in 2021? (OUR RATE $/HR)
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2021
- Today Rob and I are out doing fall cleanups and trying to chip away at the schedule before the season is finally wrapped up. We have another dozen or more leaf cleanups on the books, and today we're taking you with us on 2 different clients.
We have been getting a ton of questions lately about what we charge for fall cleanups, and so in this video we share that we are at $175/hour for a 2 man team for us and the rig.
It can vary more by how many leaves we suck up / have to dump, but that is a base rate per hour besides our MINIMUM which is $199, even if it only takes us a half how to vac and go for a customer.
What are you guys charging for a 2 man team and your rig/setup this year? I always suggest a 4x multiple from your WEEKLY mowing price as a start for cleanups until you really dial in your costs and overhead and know where you should be at per hour. Hope that helps!
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You know our rate, what’s yours?
What are you guys charging for a 2 man team and your rig these days?
I barrowed a backpack from boss,
Took me 45min..
Blown out the backside, no pick up.
I charged $60.
Leaf debris from neighbors trees only
We charge $80 per man hr. 6 man cleanup crew 480 plus we tarp out everything. Charge by the tarp count. Plus minimum 1 hrs dump time per cleanup. Some cleanups 2hr dump time on top of jobsite time
We are at 150/hr for 2 man crew with debris loader, haul off and clean up. Probably need to raise due to inflation.
What do they charge in your area to dump?
How much do they charge to dump leafs?
Now that's the way to do leaf clean up! I've been doing this with a walk behind mower and a bagger, plus a rake in the wind. What you guys do with leaf clean ups has inspired me for sure!
Keep at it and do quality work and you will be able to get enough business to upgrade the equipment. Just make sure your professional and consistent. I have acquired so many new customers just by taking good care of the ones that I started with referring me to people they know.
Brian, sub here from Toronto area Canada, I have been watching so much of your content. First time landscaper/ lawn and property management employee, because of the state of things this year I had to find a new line of work. Your videos have been immensely helpful understanding this business. A huge thank you to you and Rob. Keep getting after it guys.
Hey brother glad to hear that!!
You crush it Brian! You’re definitely an inspiration to the community! #thankful for Brian’s Lawn Maintenance
Hey thanks Kevin.
Good job as always! Thanks for the straight up pricing. It really helps.
Bro I just had an issue with a client not wanting to pay up. Luckily I was able to get what I was asking. Some clients don’t realize the work put in and the money needed to run a business. And there are some that value your work and pay you fare and square. It’s the struggle we have to go through to run a lawn care business.
Charge up front or fire them for next year.
@@mph5896 if they call back I’ll make sure to address it and if not I’ll fire them!
That’s unfortunate, it happens but push through and keep it going buddy.
I'm in the same boat right now. I have a current customer that's failed to pay their last invoice amount. I've called, texted, emailed and sent electronic payment requests... nothing. Frustrating when you get these types of customers.
Yea, when lawn guys cut for $50-60, and then charge $200-250 for leaves?? No wonder customers have a hard time with it.
GREAT JOB BRIAN AN ROB HAPPY THANKSGIVING KEEP UP THE GREAT MOTIVATION AN KEEP LEAVING THE BLUE PRINT THANK YOU.
I am at $165 for a minimum, basically the first hour (solo here). After that I bill my time at $110. I am at yards for about 1.5-2 hours on average. A few I am at for 3-5 hours solo. If I have a guy helping me, I will put myself at $110 an hour and probably $75-$95/hr for him. My dump fee can be anywhere from $60-$140, it all depends who I get at the gate lol and I can get 3-4 properties in my trailer before needing to dump. Been high 50s and mid 60s here in Denver, no snow yet so I am crushing all my cleanups out in record time. I will probably wrap them all up next week with maybe a few left over the week after. Perhaps I'll be going back to some that had more leaves fall. Great video, Brian!
I just finished up a 2 day 1.5 acre job using my backpack and Cyclone Rake hooked up to my JD tractor. 7 yards of compacted leaves with grass mixed. This job with a 2 man crew would have been around 650.00. I’m a 67 year old 1 man band and I charged $600.00. The best part of this job was the fact the customer has a ravine and was able to dump the leaves down the hill. And the customer was very satisfied with the price and the results. My philosophy has always been…. You get what you pay for!
Love my Cyclone Rake!
If a customer can afford a $700.000 house he can afford me!
@@lawnman1734 Agreed !!
@@markschmaus5580 I’ve been retired from GM for 15 years and I still mow lawns 2 times per week along with my fall leaf pick ups. 12 years with my CR.
@@lawnman1734 Awesome ! Im 57. Starting doing lawn work for extra cash. Turned into a full blown business. Have had my CR for 3 years now.
Damn thats a killer rate … I’m at $100 per hour for 2 guys, I would’ve charged $100-$150 for that. Solid work! Maybe I can try to get my rates up to $110-$125 next year
I work in the Schenectady NY suburban area. My average yards are alittle more involved than the yard in this video. I am a one man crew and can blow out and bag up most properties in an hour. In the neighborhoods I work the town does a bulk leaf clean up so all I need to do is pile at the road.
I charge $75 for the hour. My fall cleanups are done over the course of the fall leaf season so I will do a clean up usually twice, or $150. When a yard is exceptionally loaded, I will charge up to $100- $150, when very little is needed, I will charge maybe $10 above the standard mowing charge.
I know that I am way under the prices my fellow “super crew, super truck/trailer/super mowers”….but all my stuff has been paid for years ago, I have low overhead, I live in my work zone, and for 30 years I have been very fair and have given up on making a million dollars. For me, to make $75 per hour is fine, I have everything in this world I could possibly want…..Happy Thanksgiving to all!!!
Yea me too normally I charge Double for fall clean up of the grass cut price because is only take me I little more time I think for a yard that only take me one hour to clean $100 or 120 is good for me
I'm surprised that the grass is still green! 😳 good job Guys!
Yeah! Me too!
You ain’t kidding!
Amazing video bro 👍
Great video! Very cool!
Hey Brian, we are at $75 per man hour for one time calls (people who aren't weekly lawn clients) and a $10 discount off that rate if they are weekly lawn clients of ours. We also charge $10 per cubic yard of debris removed (implemented due to watching either one of yours or Kelfas's videos). Our rate will be going up next season due to the increase in cost of operation across the board (sometimes have seen monthly increases) from business insurance, employee taxes, fuel and oil, maintenance and equipment, etc. Also it's been difficult to find people who want to work, I anticipate paying $16+ per hour next season for employees ant that might be at the low end of the scale. Keep those video's coming. Philip in Montana
Thanks for sharing!
nice
Yo man love the work you guys do!! Quick tip if I can for that debri loader. Raise the chain up a few loops with the carabiner on the black band hose boom. You’ll get better suction as the hose will be straighter, way less clogs. Hope it helps.
Thanks for the videos man. You guys got love from northern Cali!
Yeah we were just talking about that today how we need to adjust it, good looking out!
Happy Thanksgiving! 1 left for the season for me. 11 degrees in Minnesota this morning with a real feel of 0. Keep up the good work!
Ya ya we watch "leaf juggernaut"
I actually applied his technics today at work!
I needed reassurance on my technique!
Thank you
Landscapers united!
United USA!
Lol I saw his video just an hour ago!
Hey Brian happy thanksgiving to you and your family God bless stay safe
Dope video!!
Appreciate it!!
I think that was fair price I love your set up my dream set up other then a dodge pulling it 🤣 but thanks for everything you do on your channel I’ve learned a lot becoming a business owner learning more how to keep pushing to make my business more profitable and efficient successful
Interesting. I've never bagged leaves. I just mulch over them, but then again, I usually do weekly even in the fall, maybe sometimes every two weeks. Sometimes the leaves get a bit out of control but mulching usually works just fine. I just don't want to haul anything away.
I bought 2 Billy Goat KV650SPH leaf vacuums for this years cleanup. Alan and I just lift them into the dump trailer and go from there. Most of my cleanups have been about 2 hours. I charge $145.00 as a flat fee. I charge $45.00 a man hour.
Like the dump bed in your truck! Oddly enough I’ve never seen a setup like that. We have a lawn crew that drops their leaves off at our farm.
I just started my landscaping business this year, one day i will have equipments like you have!
Your rates seem very reasonable. I know up here in the Boston area companies will charge around $200 just to do curbside pickup! I had a friend who had one company quote him $2,400 to do a full leaf cleanup, and his yard was maybe double the size of some you showed on this video.
That company that charges $2,400 is either broke or swimming in money lol
Have a great Holiday weekend!!
You too!!
That’s some major power/suction going on there Spencer’s. Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍽🦃🙏🏾✝️🙏🏾
Great video! Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃
You too!
@@BriansLawnMaintenance Thanks, Brian!
We average $100 he for a 2 man crew. But we don’t have to haul any off. Everything can be dumped on sight or blown to certain places on the property.
wish I watched this video hahahaha. Just yesterday I spent at least an hour and a half blowing out a lady’s mulch beds, mowing and bagging, and getting her yard all cleaned up for $42 🙄
Yikes lol. 5X that next time.
I work in landscaping and every big pile of leaves I have to pick up with a rake and catcher and into the trash can even during leaf season.
Honestly bro I mope you comment back but the quality is crazy looking !!
Appreciate that
My rates have went up this year. I use to do leaf clean ups for $250. Regardless of time involved. Now I am at $300. A leaf clean up will take me 4-6 hrs. 1 person. But with the Stihl 800c leaf clean ups are taking less time because of the leaf blower. But with your rates I feel we are close in price. You have bigger equipment and stuff and I am only 1 guy. But the customers love the final product.
Get waste management bags. It’ll save you a lot of time. Shouldn’t take 4hrs.
You guys need to make more videos like this!!
Trying to! 😎🙏
@@BriansLawnMaintenance love ya man. Big inspiration
Hey brother, just an observation on the Hero 10, the audio was bad unless you were facing the camera. I have not noticed that on other GoPros 7, 8, 9. Thank you for the openness on pricing, it would be nice if pricing was more even across the board to avoid the lowballers.
I won't even put a blower on or get my mower out of the trailer for less than 250. Most are 200-325. I will say after taking over my bosses old company after he passed away this year I kept all the same prices that he had years past. Some of his clients were with him 30+yrs. Might be screwing myself on the old school lower prices but keeping them prices helped me keep 90 of his 120 accounts. Next year will definitely be different, especially with gas prices.
Lawn care is a luxury for people. If they don't want to do it themselves, they have to pay fairly for it.
nice man! i would say come feb put out some flyers with the higher price in the same neighborhoods. it has worked for us
Video is real clear
Sweet
I dont charge by the hour. I take a look and tell them what it's going to cost. My minimum is $350. And we have way more trees here than the fancy city.
I'm between 175 and 199 for clean up if I just blow to wood line or put in a bag on curb or mulch it. But it's an average of 2.5 of mow price. I'm a 1 man operation with a back pack blower. Not enough of it here in SC.
Brian is absolutly right brand wise its your choice but i trust Kawaski with every thing i have and fyi im the service manager for an outdoor power equiptment store in Ohio
Usually $50 per man, per hour. $40 trip fee, and $30 per cubic yard haul off fee. This will vary of course, depending on distance (trip charge adjustment), how long I've known the customer (customers that have helped get me other jobs of course get a discount) etc.
how would you calculate the cubic yards?
I like your price, I would have said 150, but the yards don’t pay as well here. So it’s relative.
That's very fair pricing.
I did a leaf cleanup with a tshirt on today in Winston Salem, NC I would like it to be colder though so it feels like Winter 🥶
Great video Brian, happy early thanksgiving to you and the fam! I get $300 per clean up! Why would they mix wood chips in with everything when they can sell them or give it away?
Good question!
Dump box for the win. Not sure which is better, the work saved or the time saved. Guess it's both!
Backs saved too from jumping up there!
$120 minimum to blow out beds and mulch leaves onsite/blow into Woodline. $200 minimum to haul debris away.
Quality is exceptional for a GoPro!
That vaccum hose can get heavy . I usually put it on the ground and rack the leafs into it .. works great! And saves your back .... Work smarter not harder
I'm impressed how green the grass still looks at those temps🌡
I charge 50$ per hour plus the regular mowing fee, plus 25$ per trip to my dump site if the customer doesn’t have anywhere to dump
Hey Brian Dan Fontaine Rolling Hills Lawn Care here at Massachusetts Westfield Mass we're getting between 3 and 400 and not them out in about 3 to 4 hours
In NJ $50 by guy + 50 by yard of debris .we do 3 rounds two on November and last one on December.
In our area the leaves fall at different rates October-December. I find myself still mowing (especially the fescue lawns) but also blowing out beds and spending extra time cleaning up leaves on weekly and bi weekly lawns. Not really sure how to address charging more on each regular lawn service and then charging for the final leaf clean up at the end of the season.
Divide hourly rate by 60 minutes and bill per minute over your scheduled or average time on the property
In a previous video, you discussed a regular service fee around $60 per man hour ($120/HR) for 2 guys. Is the difference in the cleanup hourly rate more for convenience?
One is a mowing rate, leaf cleanups take a lot of muscle (equipment), and there has to be a premium for it. Ie, the bagger, debris loader, the leaf box, etc
We charge $200 per hour plus 15 min minimum pickup for extra $125 and then every 10 min increment after that. What do you do if you add a beast 37 hp blower? It will take you much less time but you have $12k machine on property. Wondering your thoughts… thanks!
Hey Brian, great video. I was curious, do you have a cutoff for how late you do Spring Cleanups? I feel most people should have their yards cleaned up by the end of March, maybe mid April. We are still getting calls for cleanups. They are horrible with all the Spring rains we get. They are one times services most of the time and rarely do they call the next year. It is a real pain not only because the yard doesn't cleanup well when its a soggy mess, but also we have already taken the bagging system off the mower and put the mulch kit back on. Then we got to switch it back to bagging on a regular mowing day just to get that one cleanup. I was thinking of doing a hard stop on these services end of March. What are your thoughts?
We do. Once regular mowing starts we’re done with cleanups.
I have a go pro 10 what setting you using I'm new to the go pro just trying to understand it better
Are these cleanups once during the fall or do u do several appearances?
Video quality looks amazing. What view is that superview? Zoom?
Just the default settings!
I would have charged (one man crew) $60/hr flat. I bag and haul away. This would have been probably a 300-400 job depending on how bad the leaves were. If it was minor 150-200
I’m for the most part a one man business and just started a few months ago. How much would you guys charge for straight hard labor meaning. One person, one leaf blower(800) and pushing them into the woods or bagging them and hauling them off? All I have is a utility trailer and after I push all the leafs off the lawn. I use the zero to push the access over too 🙄. I’m in NC also, I’m not sure how the prices differ.
Hey thatworks!
I started my own company and I only have simple equipment trying to save up to purchase a riding lawn mower I only have 2 push mowers a blower and a trimmer
Hey Brian how do you charge for leaf cleanup? By hour and how much to charge or do you charge by the job. Thank you
Really depends. We give ranges. $275-$349, $425-$575, for example. Just depends on how long were there, how much we suck up & haul away/dispose of, and if we do any perennial cutbacks. Hope that helps!
I'm from metro Detroit originally, and piling the leaves up out front to be taken away by the city was common place, but it's virtually unheard of out here in Denver. Man, that would make cleanups so much easier for me if I didn't have to haul away or mulch all the leaves!
Also, how to you get that dump enclosure on and off your truck?
Interesting! It's semi-permanent in there for now!
175hr.come on im in TN and Chargin. 50hr.but if yall suckin em up i guess thats about right.
Hey Brian what type of dump in certain do you use on your truck and where did you get it?
That's a Buyers Dump Insert!
That seems like a fair rate considered you run a lot of equipment and cost and a two man crew for me and the area I mow I charge them about to cost of a regular mow to get the leaves probably should raise that rate up a bit
Hello. I am in the west Bloomfield area and wonder what is the dump fee at spurt?
I think we pay $30 for a flat dump fee, but our box is only 5 yards. Call them up for pricing, they're really kind people.
Was those Milwaukee gloves...they look warm but still have some dexterity
They're the leather ones that they dropped last fall. I picked up a half dozen pairs, they've worked great, fleece lined inside, we love them.
I’ve been charging 475$ a clean up that includes everything, “ leaves haul away unless we can dump on the property, gutters cleaned, and dead flowers and plants winterized, plus the grass cut. I use a tarp and haul them onto my trailer then dump later on. Not the perfect set up but it works.
yall must have some massive yard! i live in an affluent area in texas and no one is gonna pay that. we have 1/8-1/4 acre lots around here
@@caseyporter499 some properties take me and another guy one hour & some take us 4 or 5. If you listen to some of Brian’s videos & Keith Kalfa’s they talk about knowing your “ worth” I have goals and a life style I’m trying to continue & I wanna make a nice secure place for a few guys to work one day. That’s what keeps me going & to get the prices I want. One piece of advice I can give for you is to never say no one will pay that price. Someone will always pay your price. Never settle
@@michiganhustler yep def agree with you. I’m saying No one in their right Mind will pay 475 for an hr of work since that’s what it takes one guy to collect leaves here. If they pay 475 for one guy for an hr they might be mentally disabled
@@caseyporter499 why wouldn’t someone pay that?, I’m offering above & beyond service to bring my 50-70k worth of a equipment to someone’s property to service them remove leaves & clean out gutters & winterize plants and dead flowers plus cut the grass. Plus cost of gas, labor nobody wants to work in the landscape field unless it’s for 18+ a hr. I think 475$ is a good price as long as you do a good job.
Hey Brian, I also have a gopro that I want to start making content with. How did you deal with the audio?
You can always use an external mic!
What would you charge for no haul away just blowing out to the curb? Where I am, all the towns and villages run leaf crews daily until the first snow fall so trying to get an estimate for next year to make some extra cash on the weekends on the side. I am thinking 50-65 bucks an hour for just clean up and leave it at the curb no haul away
I would definitely say 4x your weekly mowing price at a minimum. I wouldn't do any type of leaf cleanup work for less than $125/hr, I don't care if it's just rake and tarps. Just my .02! Leaves are a lot of work, people vastly underestimate that.
@@BriansLawnMaintenance You're are still talking about a 2 person crew when you say $125/hr or 4x the mowing rate as the lowest, correct? Based on your $175/hr rate for 2 workers, your per man rate works out to $87.5.
@@BriansLawnMaintenance thank you, I wasn’t sure if you would adjust the price since there is no haul away. Thank you for the input and reasoning!
About $210-$265, depending if they are already a client or not.
Do you have to remove every leaf ?
Ideally :)
Did 350$&420$ on 2 houses
What setup do you have on your toro?
Just the high lift blades and a Ballard chute blocker
I think your prices are very fair
How much do they charge to dump the leaves?
$30.
Hey Brian question. Have you or anyone you know tried Kujo yard ware?
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$175 an hour with 2 guys we charge $120 an hour with 3 guys plus rain gutters
Is that backwards? Shouldn't the 3 person crew be more per hour?
No hauling fees above the hourly rate?
Dump fees yes. Hauling fees? Not sure what you mean.
@@BriansLawnMaintenance just curious. We charge for the dump time and debris some cleanups have maybe a 70 hauling fee while others 150ish. Here green dumps for 50 a ton so the dump fee doesn't suffice for me. Some days maybe a 500 or 600 hauling fee to include the dump fee and time
Is there a reason why you don't mulch the leaves
It's just not really a thing we do around here, just bag I guess.
What's the mower name?
The Multiforce or Lazer Z
Do you charge $87.50 per man hr for all your services Brian?
We aim for $75+ an hour for anything we do.
@@BriansLawnMaintenance Thanks Brian.
@@BriansLawnMaintenance I'm going $85/hr. with all this inflation going on! I used to be $1.20 per minute-been going $1.40 or even $1.50 on occasion. Just an hour away.
$60 per man hour + $50 disposal fee
250 base price
Wow you are making money $175 per hour. For leaf cleanup I only charge $35 per labor, $3 for every 5 lawn bags I use, which the actual price at the store, and $10 for gas for my zero turn. The first yard you did that took you an hour and you charged $199. I would have done that for like $100-$125, it would took me like 2 hours thou. I don’t know if I am charging to cheap or my clients are cheap. I feel like if I charge more I would lose a lot of jobs. Now let me mention I don’t have a lawn business I only do lawn on the side mostly on the weekends. I did invest in equipment. Most of my yard I do are in between $30-40 bucks for regular mowing.
Double your rates buddy: I promise you once you start to have the overhead pile on, you’ll need those rates to be higher. Rock on!
@@BriansLawnMaintenance I agree I noticed that when I quote leaf clean up I am underestimating the work. I work by myself. I notice that I quote for 2 hours and the jobs ends up taking me 3 hours. I just started doing landscaping this year. I am starting to quote customer by the hour to make it fair. I will most definitely be increasing my rates next year. I don’t know why I always have the fear of losing customers. Since I only do this on the side in the weekends since I have a regular day job I just charge cheap. I noticed that I charge too cheap. For mowing do you usually follow the 1 dollar per minute? I try to follow that but I am not sure how you go about quoting better. You seem to have a very effective formula down. By the way I enjoy your videos and I appreciate the knowledge you be dropping…..
Should be free to dump clean leaves
I want to work with you guys and I would only ask $30/h
Is Conner coming back
Never know!
Yup we keep in touch for sure, he’s a good kid.
HEY BRIAN IMAGINE OWNING A $300,000 and up HOUSE AND PEOPLE CANT AFFORD LAWN SERVICE!
Many people in their homes can’t afford service bc they’re struggling to afford homes they shouldn’t of bought in the first place, sad but true.
When you turn camera, it gets muffled.
Ya mic points forward
Hey Brian what city is this in?
Wixom MI
$60 1/2 per man
250$ covers the first hour. 150$/hour after that.
Say no to the Clotshot
Tweels should be off with bagger, too much weight and their not rated for that.
Yup that’s what they say, but we haven’t seen any issues with them and also I’ve talked to a dozen folks who run them year around with baggers and they’ve had no issues either, so I’m leaving them on for now!
100hr is better