Lawn Mowing Income Goal Calculator

Your numbers

Take-home pay you want each weekWhat lands in your pocket after costs and tax. Not what you invoice.

Average price per mowAcross all your regular lawns. Starting out? Use what you quote most.

Mows per lawn a yearEvery 2 weeks all year is 26. Weekly all year is 52. Count fewer if your winter slows right down.

Minutes per lawn, driving includedGate to gate plus the drive to the next one. 40 is a normal average.

Running costs, % of what you invoiceFuel, repairs, insurance, phone, vehicle, gear wearing out. Mine sit around 35 to 40%.

Tax set aside, % of what's left after costs25% is a safe number to put away. Your accountant can give you the real one.

What that takes

117

regular lawns to take home $1,000 a week, every week of the year.

$115,556

to invoice a year

$2,222

to invoice in an average week

50

mows in an average week

33

hours a week mowing and driving

Doable solo.

Fewer lawns, same pay

At your price now117 lawns
At $50 a mow106 lawns
At $55 a mow96 lawns
Price that gets you there on 80 lawns
About 80 regular lawns is a full-time solo round. Past that, most guys need to raise prices or hire.$66

How to use the answer

Under your number? That's how many more lawns to go and get. Quote in the streets you already mow first.

Way over what one person can mow? Don't chase more lawns. Put your prices up on the lowest-paying ones first. Every $5 a mow takes lawns off that number.

Know your number, now check your week

The capacity calculator shows how many lawns your week can actually hold before you're mowing Saturdays.

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