"per" cost

[vaughnslawns]

How do you break down "per" for the cost of doing business EX: insurance how do you estamate the breakdown for a unknown # of clientel? (sp) to get your cost of doing business... mower payments,gas,parts,ect...

[Scaper-S2k]

You have to adjust as you add more clients....which adds more man hours.

I would not try figuring 'per' client, instead, figure per man hour. And it should include all hours paid to employees. Then use that figure to come up with each client.

You will have to estimate your total man hours per year.

[DearbornLawnCare]

GrassMaster posted a thread that broke it down with gas for equipment and all other costs try to look it up.

[vaughnslawns]

under what he has so much to say....:laughing::laughing: ok so 50 hours x 32 weeks (insurance) $300 divided by 1600?

[Jay Chatfield]

this is how I figure out how much it's costing me for each customer...

Add up gas, truck pmts, insurances, licensing fees, lobor cost, taxes, office expenses and so on... Your operating cost over an entire seasoon of cutting.. For example I cut for only 24 weeks in MI before Fall Clean Up ...

Take that total and figure out a monthly projection of expences on an average. Then figure out how many customers you can handle.. You should be able to do a minimum of 12 residential lawns for every 1 person on the crew each day. Afer you know how many you can complete every day then you can figure out how much you need to charge for each lawn to meet the financial needs of your life and your business.

to make 300 each day myself or to make 150 each day off someone else is my goal. three people on 1 man crews can cut about 140 lawns a week at 25$ each is 3500 / wk or 14K monthly billing

[ckc]

split out your fixed cost (insurance, truck, shop rent, ect) from your variable (gas, labor, landscape supplies). Try to get a percentage you run on your variables (this will vary greatly - the higher priced the job the lower the percentage is typically). Spend some time on this excercise. Your fixed cost will not change thrughout the year no matter how many customers you have. Then factor your percentages on variables and you can rough your expenses that way.

[vaughnslawns]

i'm hearing ya..