Price the job to get the job DONE. Free, no signup.
This tool prices the job so the work gets done profitably. First set your numbers: target dollars per man-hour (presets: $45 solo, $60 pro, $75 crew), crew size, and minimum charge ($40 default, applied whenever the math comes in lower). Then enter your mowing production rate: the default 21,780 sq ft per hour is roughly half an acre per hour on a 21-inch walk-behind, and the tool's own note tells you to time yourself on a real lawn and dial it in. For each property, enter mowable square feet, obstacles like trees and gates (30 seconds each), terrain (flat, some slope, or steep: 1x, 1.15x, or 1.3x time), grass condition (maintained, tall, or overgrown: 1x, 1.2x, or 1.4x), plus your drive time round trip and load/unload minutes. The math totals mowing, trimming at 22 percent of mow time, blowing at 5 percent, obstacles, and travel times your crew, then prices the total at your target rate or your minimum, whichever is higher. Enter what you would charge in the verdict card: it says BEATING GOAL, ON GOAL (within 10 percent of target), or NEEDS RAISED, with your profit per man-hour versus target. Estimates from your inputs only, not business advice.
Example only, not typical pricing. Take a 10,000 sq ft lawn, flat and maintained, with 8 obstacles, a 12-minute drive round trip, and 6 minutes to load and unload. Mowing time is 10,000 / 21,780 x 60 = 27.55 minutes. Trimming adds 6.06 minutes (22%), blowing adds 1.38 minutes (5%), obstacles add 4 minutes, and travel plus load adds 18 man-minutes. Total: about 57 minutes. At a $60/man-hour target with a 1-person crew, the recommended price is $56.99, above the $40 minimum. If you were going to quote $45, your real rate is $47.38/man-hour, which is 79% of target, so the verdict says NEEDS RAISED.