What is the general consensus on what is a good amount to charge a weekly lawn cutting client to clear there driveway of snow in the winter? I have a fair number of them wanting me to do there driveway in the winter, double and single car driveways mostly.
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I have worked tirelessly on this because I am going to offer snow shoveling this year. Problem is you can't charge to much as it might snow 2 or 3 times a week and people don't want to pay 75+ dollars a week.
I decided I would charge 15dollars for first half hour and 30 dollars an hour prorated after that (50cents a minute) + cost of de-icer at 10percent increase.
Basically unless we get a ton of snow it should take less than half an hour to shovel and lay de icer.
I get to a property it takes me 20 minutes to shovel and 5 minutes to lay de icer (assume de icer costs 30 dollars for 50 pounds) and I only lay 5 pounds 5x1.60=8x0.10=0.80 so 8+.80= 8.80 dollars + 15 minute minumum is 23.8 dollar charge per time
Now if they don't want de icer it would only be 15 dollars flat.
If we get 6 inches of snow and it takes me an hour to clear the drive way and lay deicer that would be 38.8dollars with deicer or 30 without. This way of pricing give my customers the ability to have me return more than once a week and not empty their bank account and it also protects me if we get a huge storm I don't get under payed. Problem with this is if there is a lot of travel time you could easily lose money. So I have to be careful.