How Much Should I Charge for a Landscaping Job?
You priced the sod by the area and forgot the soil, the skid steer and the trip to the dump. The yard looks great. Your margin doesn't.
Put in your own numbers. The calculator adds your overhead, prices the job to the margin you want, and shows what you keep.
Landscaping Job Price Calculator
- Materials$2,400.00
- Labour$800.00
- Equipment Rental and Disposal$350.00
- Overhead$532.50
- Job cost$4,082.50
Questions
How do I price a landscaping job by area?
Measure the area in square feet: length times width for each section, added up. Put the sod, soil, mulch or stone per square foot in Materials per Sq Ft, and the hours your crew needs in labour.
Should equipment rental go in a landscaping price?
Yes. The skid steer, the sod cutter and the dump fees are part of the job. Put them in Equipment Rental and Disposal so they're priced in, not paid out of your profit.
Markup or margin: which should I use to price a landscaping job?
Price from margin. Markup is your profit as a share of your cost. Margin is your profit as a share of the price. They are not the same number: mark a $1,000 cost up 30% and you charge $1,300, but your margin is 23%, because $300 is 23% of $1,300. Price from the margin you want and you know what you keep.
Should overhead go into the price of a landscaping job?
Yes. Your truck, insurance, phone, tools and the hours you spend quoting jobs you don't win are all paid for by the jobs you do win. A simple way to set it: add up last year's overhead, divide it by last year's job costs, and use that percentage here.
How do I turn this price into a landscaping quote?
Sign up for HomeJet free and build the quote with a line for each part of the job: materials, labour and the extras. HomeJet adds your sales tax. The quote stays on the job with the photos and notes, so when it's accepted your crew already has what they need and the invoice comes from the same lines. It's free for one-person businesses, with no credit card.
You Priced the Margin. Now Keep It.
A good price only holds if the job runs clean. In HomeJet the quote, the photos, the notes and your crew's updates live on one job, so nobody chases details by text and nothing falls through the cracks. Less chaos, fewer mistakes, more of this margin kept. Free for one-person businesses, no credit card.