FREE CALCULATOR
Price each lawn from its size, your drive time and the hourly rate you need — so small lawns and long drives don't quietly cost you money.
The sample rates are placeholders, not market prices — set your own from your costs, your area and what you want to earn per hour. Monthly revenue assumes 4.33 visits per month.
A lawn that takes 32 minutes to mow can easily take 47 minutes of your day once you count the drive, and the drive between lawns isn't free time. If you price only the minutes the mower is running, your real hourly pay drops with every extra mile. That is why this calculator charges for drive time but also shows your effective on-site hourly figure — the number to compare against what you could earn doing something else.
Very small lawns cost nearly as much to serve as medium ones: loading equipment, driving, unloading and invoicing take the same time. A minimum charge keeps those jobs from losing money. Weekly customers are worth more than one-time jobs, so the monthly revenue figure helps you decide which routes to build around and where a modest discount for recurring service still leaves you with a good hourly rate.
Price jobs by target margin with overhead built in, send a client-ready quote, and track estimate-vs-actual job costing so you know which jobs really pay. Excel and Google Sheets.
Estimate on-site time from the lawn size and your mowing speed, add drive time, multiply by your hourly rate, then add equipment and fuel costs and any add-ons. Apply a minimum charge so small lawns still pay.
Most lawn care businesses build it into the price, since time between jobs is time you can't bill elsewhere. Tight routes with neighbors close together let you lower it.
No. They are placeholders so you can see how the calculator works. Set the rate and speed from your own costs and local market.
Free to use, no sign-up. Built by Gragg Robotics, LLC in Waterville, Maine. More free tools: all calculators.