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Lawn care price list template
Lawn businesses usually publish one price per cut, by lawn size. Southbound, which mows around Memphis, charges $45–$65 a cut for lawns of 5,000–11,000 sq ft with trimming, edging and blowing off hard surfaces included; Royal Acres in Terre Haute prices a quarter-acre lot at $49 for each weekly visit (checked October 2026). Give each row a size, what the cut includes and the schedule, add your minimum, and mark what you quote on site.
Print a lawn price sheet
Enter price for service 1.
Published examples: check the unit and included work
| Published service | Price | Scope | Source and date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quarter acre; US mowing guide | $45–$85 per visit | Frequency, access and trimming time move a lawn within the band. | HomeGuide: lawn care prices · Checked |
| One acre; US mowing guide | $60–$150 per visit | Measured as grass you mow, not the whole lot. | HomeGuide: lawn care prices · Checked |
National per-visit mowing bands from HomeGuide, published February 2026 and checked October 2026. Measure the grass you’ll cut before comparing a lawn to them.
What belongs on a lawn care price sheet?
A handful of size rows with the weekly price for each, in units customers know: lot size in acres, plus square feet of grass for anyone who has measured. Under them, one line saying what every cut includes, then the add-ons with their own prices, such as bagging, an overgrown first cut and spring or fall cleanups. Put your minimum where nobody can miss it.
Keep off the sheet anything you can’t price without seeing it: steep banks, lawns behind gates narrower than your mower, acreage you cut with a different machine, and yards nobody has mowed in a month. Write “quoted on site” next to those, so the owner of a hillside lot doesn’t book the quarter-acre price and expect it to hold.
Should you put mowing prices on your website?
For standard residential lawns, usually yes. Southbound and Royal Acres both publish theirs, and someone who has seen $49 a week before calling is already a likely customer; the people hunting for the cheapest cut in town never call. What you give up is room to price each yard by eye, so publish prices by size and say plainly what moves a lawn up a row.
Word a “from” price so customers can place their own yard. “Up to a quarter acre of grass, weekly, from $49” tells them far more than “Mowing from $49.” Royal Acres says actual grass area sets the final quote, which is the right promise to make: the row shows where a normal yard lands, and your walk-around confirms it.
Should you bill lawn care monthly or per cut?
Per cut is simple and fair when weeks get skipped. Monthly billing smooths cash for both of you: multiply the per-cut price by the cuts you expect in a season, divide by the billing months, and print both numbers on the sheet. The customer still sees what one visit costs, and you aren’t chasing a stack of small invoices every month.
The catch is the dry spell. In a hot, dry July you may skip weeks, and a customer paying the same amount every month will notice the mower isn’t coming. Decide before you sell it: either the monthly price already assumes fewer midsummer cuts, or skipped cuts are credited at the end of the season. Put whichever you choose on the sheet.
Frequently asked questions
Should the price list show a minimum?
Yes, and make it the price of your smallest row rather than a separate fee. HomeGuide’s eighth-acre band of $30–$40 a visit is a fair floor to check yours against. A printed minimum saves the conversation with the owner of a small townhouse lawn who expects a fraction of the quarter-acre price.
How often should I update my lawn care prices?
Once a year, before spring sign-ups, so returning customers hear about it before the first cut rather than on the first bill. Check fuel, insurance and wages; BLS puts national mean pay for landscaping and groundskeeping workers at $19.66 an hour (May 2024). Date the sheet so last year’s copy doesn’t come back.
Should spring and fall cleanups go on the mowing sheet?
List them as named add-ons with a starting price so mowing customers know you do them, but keep them out of the weekly rate. A fall cleanup depends on the trees and a spring cleanup on how the beds came through winter. Quote both after a look, and offer them to customers already on your route first.
Sources
- HomeGuide: lawn care prices · Checked
- Southbound: North Mississippi and Memphis lawn prices · Checked
- Royal Acres: Terre Haute lawn pricing · Published · Checked
- BLS OEWS: May 2024 employee wages · Published · Checked