Know your number before you say it out loud.
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Same method, costed for the work you actually do. All of them are in the $49 bundle.
Get the free Job Pricing Starter — loaded labour cost, overhead, break-even and the price to quote, on one sheet. It also shows what pricing on markup instead of margin costs you per job. No card.
Work up from your own costs, not from a price list. Add the disposal fee for the weight you are actually hauling, the crew hours including drive time, the truck cost for the round trip, and your overhead. That total is your break-even — the number below which the job costs you money. Your price is the break-even divided by one minus your target margin. The Junk Removal Pricing Calculator does this on every job and shows the break-even separately, so you always know your floor before you quote.
Published US ranges run roughly $120 to $275 for a quarter load, $250 to $488 for a half load, and $600 to $850 for a full 15-cubic-yard truck, averaging about $40.50 per cubic yard. Those are national averages though — your market, your dump fee and your crew size all move the real number, and a job that costs one operator $150 costs another $260. The calculator prices from your own inputs and then checks the result against those published bands, so you can see when you are about to bid over market.
There are plenty of free junk removal estimate templates, but almost all of them are blank forms — you still have to know what number to write in. They total up a price you supply. This one works the other way round: it tells you what the price should be, and warns you in dollars when the price you had in mind loses money.
Take your last five dump tickets, divide total pounds by total cubic yards hauled, and you have your own pounds-per-cubic-yard figure. Put that into the sheet and every future load estimates its own disposal cost. That single number is worth more than any pricing guide, because it is measured from your trucks and your facility.
The US national average is about $62.28 per ton, up roughly 10% year over year. Regionally it runs about $80.67 in the Northeast, $72.88 on the Pacific coast, $57.24 in the Midwest and $44.87 in the South Central states, with individual states ranging from about $31.90 to $124.25. The included Benchmark Rates tab lists these with sources — but replace them with the rate on your own dump ticket.
Yes — Excel and Google Sheets. Nothing to install.
Yes, $39 one-time. Field-service software covering the same job costs $29 to $79 every month.
