Mike Andes breaks down how to price service businesses like lawn care and cleaning to hit $1 per minute. Charge $80 an hour on-site because about 25% of your workday is non-billable time: driving, setup, fueling. That math gets you to your target.
$80 per hour
About 25% of the day
June 9, 2022
Here's how you can make $1 per minute in your side hustle or in your small business. Now, you can do lawn care and landscaping, you can do cleaning. You can do personal training, whatever it is. But ultimately, if we're going to make a dollar per minute, we actually need to charge $80 per hour when you're on the property. Why? Because you're going to assume about 25% of your day, 25% of your time is waste. Driving to the person's property, driving in the client's house, fueling up, getting your equipment, your supplies ready. So you need to make sure that you charge at least 80 do per hour. But.
