Lawn Mowing Price Rise Calculator

Your lawns now

Regular lawns you mowCount the regulars only, not one-off jobs.

Average price per mowAdd up what you charge all your regulars and divide by how many there are.

How many cuts a year, per lawnOn average, across your regular lawns.

Average minutes per lawnGate to gate plus the drive to get there. Solo, I averaged a new lawn every 40 minutes.

The price rise

Put prices up by, %10% on a $45 lawn is $4.50 a mow.

Customers you think will leaveBe honest. Most stay. The ones who leave are usually the ones paying you least.

What happens

5

customers could leave and you'd still take in the same money, while mowing fewer lawns.

+$5,940

a year more if nobody leaves

+$2,673

a year more, even after 3 leave

44

hours a year back, from the lawns that left

$68 → $74

what you earn an hour, before and after

New prices

What each price becomes, rounded to the nearest 50 cents. Your average is in there too.

How I do it

One customer a week, cheapest first. I don't put everyone up at once. Each week I take the lawn paying me the least an hour and raise that one. Time every lawn first so you know which one that is. If someone leaves, a new lead takes the slot at the new price. With 100 lawns it takes about two years to get round them all, and nobody notices a wave of price letters.

Which lawns are the cheap ones?

The price calculator shows what each lawn really earns you an hour. The hourly rate check shows what you take home across the whole week.

Try the price calculator Check my real hourly rate

Nervous about telling customers?

How I raise prices without losing customers, and what to say when someone pushes back. It's all in the free group, with a few thousand lawn care owners working the same numbers.

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