Short YouTube video (shorts) by Mike Andes giving quick guidance on how to price lawn-mowing jobs. Andes advises against using square footage alone and instead recommends pricing based on budgeted hours, using square footage only as an initial benchmark; he cites additional time-influencing factors such as gates and steep slopes.
How do you price a yard? Like, what's the metric? Something to use over and over. I'm trying to keep the prices semi consistent. Yeah. So one way to do this, and this is the most common answer, is going to be someone would say, well, you should just do it by the square footage. The problem with that is to go just based upon square footage, in my opinion, is not the most accurate. I would definitely say you want to do it based upon budgeted hours. And you can use square footage as a benchmark at first, but realize there's going to be other variables like gates and slope if there's a steep incline, things like that are going to definitely affect the time to cut the lawn.
