Free calculator for landscaping owners
How many maintenance accounts does a landscaping business need to break even?
Maintenance accounts are the base of a landscaping business. Break-even is the number of monthly accounts that covers trucks, equipment, insurance and the office before any install work.
Break-even point
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maintenance accounts a month to cover every cost
Profit at today's level
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per month, before owner pay
Cushion above break-even
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how many you could lose and still cover costs
The starting numbers are an example for a landscaping business. Replace them with yours.
The worked example
Each maintenance account brings in $450 a month and costs $270 to serve. That leaves $180 toward fixed costs of $26,000 a month. Divide one by the other and you need 145 maintenance accounts to break even. Every maintenance account past that adds $180 to profit.
Ways to lower break-even in a landscaping business
- Sell year-round maintenance contracts billed monthly, including winter.
- Group accounts by area to cut drive time between properties.
- Price installs with this year's material costs.
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