2025 Pricing Updates

Even though the US Inflation calculator website is reporting the 12 month nationwide inflation to be relatively unchanged from the previous 12 month period, to evaluate our pricing we also consider real time observations in our own community.  The costs for our employees to live here continue to climb well above the national CPI average.  Just this week we were helping an employee rent a new apartment in Victor, $3,500 for a 2 bedroom apartment…IN VICTOR!!  And lets not start talking about egg prices.  Sheesh.  All that to say we do our best to innovate, utilize new technologies, and retain trained staff members year to year which all contribute to provide value to clients through minimal price increases.  But if we don’t stay vigilant at managing a pricing structure to remain profitable we don’t stay in business and that’s a bad thing for our staff and our clients.

Through retaining every staff member from 2024 and continuing to utilize mulching mowers we will not be increasing any flat rate pricing for mowing services.

There is a lengthy discussion in this previous post about some significant changes in the way we charge for certain services last year.  Those changes will remain in effect for this season.  A few other changes for this year include:

  • 2% increase for technician labor rate to $87/hour.  The first increase since 2022.
  • 6% increase for gardening labor rate to $80/hour.  The first increase since 2022.  We’ve retained a fantastic gardening team for this year and believe this price is still below the billable rate of competitive fine gardening companies.
  • 4% increase for irrigation maintenance service to $99/hour.  Tray is back this year and prepared to deliver excellent irrigation service.

2025 Vole Forecast

I was anticipating an early start to spring, so much so that our team was prepped and ready to launch spring cleanups the week of March 24th.  As I write this (March 20th) there’s a whiteout blizzard happening with 8″ of new snow this week and it looks like we won’t be able to get onto lawns until after Spring Break.  Even so, I predict the vole damage to be light.  Snow cover in the valley didn’t start until after Christmas and should be gone by April 1st.  Any winter with less than 100 days of snow cover usually means light vole damage.  If I’m right, expect spring cleanups to cost less than the last few years.  For more on what to expect in your lawn after the snow melts click here.