Acreage and square footage are useful measurements, but landscaping jobs can swing on terrain, debris volume, machine time, disposal, material handling and crew hours.
Check a real job free →The useful question is not “what does everyone charge?” It is “what does this job cost my business, and what price protects the margin I chose?”
Protected price = cost basis ÷ (1 − target margin)This is the simple gross-margin relationship behind a cost-based protected price. Your real model may also need tax, payment fees, overhead allocation, contingency or other inputs you choose to include.
With $1,170 of entered job cost and a 35% target margin, the protected selling price is $1,800.
Paste the real job. MarginPact extracts the scope facts it can support, asks you for the economics it cannot know, calculates a protected recommendation from your inputs, and lets you carry the same job into your workspace to create a customer quote.
Run the Free Price Check →Often yes. Even owned equipment consumes fuel, maintenance, wear and capital. How you allocate that cost is a business decision.
Estimate labor, machine time, fuel, hauling/disposal and any other direct costs, then apply the margin you want to protect.
No. It calculates from the economics you provide rather than inventing a local market price.
Use the same Free Price Check that feeds MarginPact's protected pricing and quote workflow.