Service pricing calculator: build a quote from your costs
Enter your own time, job costs, quote-based fees, and target margin. The result is a cost-based quote for the scope you entered.
Landscaping pricing calculator
How much to charge for landscaping?
Separate installation from recurring maintenance: each has different materials, visits, and risk.
A one-time planting project with design, materials, crew support, and cleanup.
- Editable example assumptions
- Cost-based, not a market rate
- Before tax
Your assumptions
Editable example inputs. Replace them with your own numbers.
Work and time
Design and layout hours
Planting hours
Cleanup hours
Owner delivery time: 20.00 h
Other people
Job costs
Plants and soil
Haul-away fee
Goal, fees, and billing
Your quote result
Based on the assumptions you entered, before tax.
Exact minimum target price$1,657.15
Suggested rounded quote$1,660
Operating profit at suggested quote$500
Based on your inputs, not a market rate or after-tax take-home pay.
Cost breakdown
- Owner labor
- $550
- Other labor
- $240
- Direct job costs
- $265
- Travel, equipment, overhead & other fixed costs
- $105
- Total fixed cost
- $1,160
Show calculation and assumptions
(20.00 delivery + 2 other hours) × $25/h + $240 other labor + $265 direct costs + $105 other fixed costs = $1,160. $1,160 ÷ (1 − 0% fees − 30% margin) = $1,657.15 after rounding up to the cent.
Cost coverage: $1,160 ÷ (1 − 0% fees) = $1,160.
Owner pay is included as labor cost. Quote-based percentage fees are subtracted in the denominator.
Suggested equivalent: $1,660.00 per project across 1 project. Total quote comes first.
Review your assumptions
Compare your own scenarios
Enter and confirm your low and high total owner hours and material costs. These are planning assumptions, not market ranges.
Low scope
Add both values to compare.
Expected: current inputs
$1,657.15 exact · $1,660 suggested
High scope
Add both values to compare.
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Enter a positive quote to see its profit and margin.
How to scope this landscaping quote
Start with the actual deliverable and billing unit: 1 project in the editable example. If the customer’s scope differs, change task quantities, hours per item, and billable unit count before relying on the result.
Costs to check
- Design and layout hours: estimate the quantity and the time each one takes.
- Planting hours: estimate the quantity and the time each one takes.
- Cleanup hours: estimate the quantity and the time each one takes.
- Plants and soil: enter the amount you expect to pay for this job.
- Haul-away fee: enter the amount you expect to pay for this job.
- Include your owner pay, travel, equipment use, overhead, and any helper or subcontractor costs that actually apply.
Worked example
Illustrative inputs, not observed local prices.
20.00 delivery hours + 2 other hours at $25/hour = $550 owner labor. $240 other labor. $265 direct job costs, plus $105 other fixed costs, gives $1,160 fixed cost.
With a 30% target margin and 0% quote-based fees: $1,160 ÷ 0.70 = $1,657.15 exact minimum target price.
Where this estimate can change
Plant survival, irrigation, permits, and ongoing care require a written project scope.
The result covers only entered costs and the owner pay target. It is a before-tax operating estimate; it does not establish a local market rate or legal requirements.
Before quoting
Confirm the scope
What design, planting, soil preparation, materials, hauling, and maintenance work are included?
When work changes
Revise the estimate
A new planting area changes installation labor and materials; recurring care should be priced as a separate visit package.
Billing unit
Price the full task first
The example covers 1 project. Divide the full quote by this count only when it matches what the customer will actually buy.
Source and method
This page uses the QuoteForProfit cost-based formula and explicitly labeled, editable example assumptions. It does not use an external market price table. Method updated 2026-11-06.
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