Lawn Mowing Price Calculator

Add up what one cut costs you. Labor is the crew size times each worker's hourly pay times the hours on site plus the drive. Add equipment and fuel for the hours the crew is on site, then overhead, either per hour of the visit or as a percent of those costs. Divide that cost by 1 minus your target margin. The result is the price per cut.

Choose lawn size, then enter the square feet and your crew's mowing speed in square feet per hour. The calculator divides the size by the speed to get hours on site. Time a few lawns you know the size of to get your speed. This page does not suggest one.

The calculator gives a price per cut and the hourly rate that price works out to. A per-cut price only holds if the lawn takes the time you entered. Overgrown grass, wet days and extra trimming stretch the visit, which lowers the effective hourly rate.

Target margin is profit divided by the price you charge. Markup is profit divided by your cost. The price per visit is your cost per visit divided by 1 minus the margin. The markup percent is that price divided by the cost, minus 1. The box under the result uses the margin you typed.

The cost of running mowers, trimmers and blowers for one hour on site: fuel, maintenance and wear. It is charged for hours on site only. Truck costs and fuel for the drive belong in overhead, which is charged for the whole visit when you use the per-hour option. There is no default.

The preset is the BLS median hourly pay for landscaping and groundskeeping workers, May 2025, from the Occupational Outlook Handbook, fetched on 22 October 2026. It is a median wage, not a price. The calculator uses the hourly pay you enter. Employer payroll taxes, workers' comp and benefits are not added on top, so put them in overhead, or work out a fully burdened wage with the labor rate calculator and enter that as the pay.