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Landscaping Job Quote Calculator

Estimate a profitable landscaping quote from labor, materials, equipment, travel, overhead, and margin.

Inputs

Result

Planning estimate only. Replace assumptions with your real costs, contracts, taxes, and market conditions.

How it works

  1. Enter crew time

    How many people, for how long, including travel between sites.

  2. Add materials and disposal

    Plants, aggregate, and the cost of taking waste away.

  3. Apply your margin

    What is left has to cover equipment, insurance and the quiet months.

Who this is for

Quoting a one-off job

A number you can defend line by line if the client asks.

Pricing a maintenance round

Work out the per-visit price from the hours a visit really takes.

Costing waste removal

Disposal is easy to forget and rarely cheap.

Checking a job you already did

Compare quoted hours against actual hours and price the next one better.

Questions

Should travel time be billable?
It is time the crew cannot spend on another job, so it has to be paid for somewhere. Whether it appears as its own line or inside the hourly rate is a presentation choice.
What about equipment?
Machinery wears out on a schedule. Carrying a share of replacement cost on every job is more honest than treating equipment as free until it dies.
How do I handle a job that runs long?
Decide before you quote. Either the quote is fixed and the margin absorbs the risk, or it is an estimate with a stated hourly rate beyond a point. Both work; leaving it unsaid does not.