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What should you charge per cut?

Two things decide whether a lawn round makes money, and neither is the price. How tight your route is — and the fact that your overheads run twelve months while your season doesn’t.

The lawn

Pre-filled with a typical suburban round. Change what’s different.

What’s included
Time on the lawnMower running, per person
min
Crew
Cuts a season, this customerFortnightly for seven months is about 15

Your round

This is where lawn rounds are won or lost.

Driving between stopsNot to and from home — between one lawn and the next
min
Stops in a day
Pay per person, per hour
$
Fuel, blades, wear — per cut
$
Margin you want
%
 

 

The seasonYour overheads do not stop in January  
Everything you pay monthlyVan, insurance, phone, storage, admin
$
Months you actually cut
Cutting days a week

Winning the workMoney spent to get a lawn on the round  
Spent a month getting customers
$
New customers a month
Seasons they stayA good lawn customer stays for years

Lawn care — price per cut

What it costs
The round

A tight round beats a high price

Fourteen lawns on one street. Not fourteen lawns across town.

You can put your prices up and lose customers, or you can cut the driving between them and keep every dollar of it. One of those is free.

  • Stops ordered into a sensible run, so the van goes the short way round
  • The whole season booked in one go — recurring, not re-booked every fortnight
  • Skip a week for rain and the rest of the season shuffles itself
  • Card on file, charged per cut, so nobody owes you at the end of the month
  • Off-season work offered to the round you already have, not to strangers
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