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Labor Time Data Handbook
Nilsson Associates
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For:
Landscaping Contractors
Lawn Care Service Providers
Parks & Recreation Managers
Snow Removal & Plowing Contractors

Labor Time Data Handbook - Contains over 500 field tested, time-studied labor hours data for landscaping and grounds maintenance job estimating and calculating labor time man hours for facility managers, parks and recreation departments, campus grounds, schools and university grounds. Bid with confidence, save time preparing bids, easily determine best crew size, make money on every job you get, never under or overprice a bid again, set realistic labor goals for employees. Includes labor hours for just about every job performed in landscaping and grounds maintenance by contractors and facility managers, parks, campus grounds functions and sports complex maintenance. For Green Industry Job Bidding, Pricing, Profits, Estimating Irrigation and Hardscape Jobs and for use in non-profit situations where budgeting labor hours, scheduling the work and determining total employee production man hours is desired.
These methods of collecting information was the basis for creating my Labor Time Data Handbook of Standard Work Times of man hours needed to perform the work. Included in my time study was all sorts of grounds maintenance and landscaping installation tasks and work that is normally done by landscaping and lawn care service companies. I timed things like Mowing, edging, trimming, pruning, snow plowing, ice control, tree planting, mulch, aeration, slit seeding, shrub beds, hardscapes, blowing leaves, lawn chemical applications, spring and fall cleanups, seed, installing sod, water gardening, flowers, and over 500 common job tasks to numerous to mention. I timed the different work tasks using many different types and sizes of power equipment was used during the timing trials for edger, trimmers, riding mower, walkbehind, weed eater, tractor, ztr, chainsaws, loaders, trucks, trailers, sprayers, hydroseeders, spreaders and the usual equipment of running a green industry company.

Labor Time Data
Table of Contents:
Introduction
How To Bid Contracts
Knowing The Scope of the Work
A Few Words About Profits
Units of Work
Service Frequency
Labor Times:
Aerification
Back Pack Spraying
Blowing
Cleanups
Dethatching
Edging
Grading
Granular Applications
Hydroseeding
Installing Flowers
Installing Pavers
Line Marking
Liquid Applications
Loading
Mowing
Mulching
Pavement Sweeping
Planting Shrubs & Trees
Pruning
Raking
Sanding & Salting
Seeding
Snow Blowing
Snow Plowing
Sodding
Staking & Guying
Stump Grinding
Trimming
Watering
Weeding
Reference Section:
Annual Sales Statistics
Calculating Equipment Costs
Employee Productivity
Fertilizer Recommendations
Mowing Height Recommendations
Grounds Maintenance Statistics
Labor Management
Landscape Construction Estimating
Non-Productive Time Cost Worksheet
Tables & Measures
MIscellaneous Formulas
Financial Formulas

How to order
Labor Time Data Handbook
Written by Nilsson Associates
Book # A-7, Price $69.50
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New Business Startup Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
Complete Operations Management System (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)

When it comes to pricing lawn and landscape jobs nobody has more landscape industry pricing information than Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants. Nilsson's Job Price Guides covers lawn care bids, job bidding & estimating for tree care, irrigation installation & service, pavement sweeping & maintenance, snow plowing operations, landscaping and hardscaping job bids for both commercial & residential customers as well as real estate management, parks & recreation departments, municipalities, college and univeristy grounds. The prices cover; estimates & bids for grounds services, landscaping pricing estimates , estimating & bid the price seasonal work, year around commercial estimate contracts, price per square foot, best grounds maintenance & landscaping job to bid & pricing, price of lawn care, lawn mowing price, aeration pricing, lawns, commercial landscape job bid estimates, most all outdoor maintenance estimating & pricing, mulching prices, pricing chemicals, weeding & aerating pricing, fertilizer prices, prices for organic fertilizer, pricing weeds in beds, pricing pruning & trimming trees & shrubs, pricing commercial & residential snow plowing, hardscape pricing, pricing hydroseeding, irrigation service estimates for commercial & residential, pricing seeding lawns, pricing lawn sod, prices for slit seeding lawns, pricing edging lawn beds, spring cleanup prices, pricing fall cleanups, hourly price of pressure washing walks & patios, pricing trees, stump grinding prices, price for gutter cleaning, lawn dethatching price, price for shoveling snow, pricing salting, price for sanding.

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Nilsson's Job Pricing Guides (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm) makes it faster and easier for you to price lawn care, grounds maintenance, and landscape installation projects. The Price List serves as a quick job price reference tool when you're not sure what to charge, and as a valuable resource to compare your prices with landscape industry averages. You'll have a way to check your price before making your final pricing decision and submitting your bid to your customer.

The Job Prices are from surveys conducted nationwide by Nilsson Associates. Survey participants names and locations are confidential, and not available. Nilsson's Price Guides include job specifications, work descriptions, quantities, A to Z individual services price lists, price ranges, and price averages of what contractors are currently charging for the work categories below:

Includes
Job Prices
For:
Aerating lawns
Aerating Core
Back Pak Spraying lawns,
Bak Pak shrub beds, curbs
Bed Edging - in lawns
Cement Curbing Installation
Cement Borders Installed
Chemical Applications of lawn care chemicals
Deck Installations
Dethatching of lawns
Drain Gutter Cleaning to remove leaves
Drain Gutters Installed
Drain Gutter Screening
Edging Walks
Edging Beds
Fall Cleanups of lawns and beds
Firewood sales
Firewood Cords
Firewood Bundles
Firewood Delivery
Flower Installations Flats
Flower Pots
Grading & Filling of soil for lawns
Ground Covers - Plants
Ground Covers Mulch
Hardscapes - patios, stairs, walks
Hourly Rates lawn care
Hourly Rates - Landscape
Hourly Rates Landscape design
Hourly Rates Plowing
Hydroseeding of lawns
Hydroseeding Preparation
Hydroseeding Materials
Install Sod
Install Shrubs
Install Trees
Irrigation lawn Installation
Irrigation Service - lawns & beds
Irrigation Winterize
Irrigation Repair Rates
Irrigation Controllers
Landscape Designs - designing computer image landscapes
Landscape Lighting Installations
Landscape Lighting Fixtures
Landscape Floodlights
Landscape Solar Lighting
Landscape Grading
Landscape Installations lawns, shrubs, plants & trees
Lawn Aeration Spike
Lawn Aeration Cores
Lawn Care Service Chemical Applications Fertilizers Weed Controls
Lawn Chemical Applications
Lawns Fertilized
Lawn Mowing Riders
Lawn Mowing Walkbehinds
Lawn Mowing Trim
Lawn Weed Treatments
Lawn Treatment Programs
Lawn Chemical Prices - Acre, Square Foot
Lawn Grub Control Apps
Lawn Insecticide
Lawn Renovations - Slit Seeding, Reseeding, Elimination of Growth
Liquid Applications of Fertilizers, Weed Killers
Loam Installed for lawn building and planting beds
Mowing with walkbehinds
Mowing with ztrs
Mowing with riding mowers
Mowing with trim mowers
Mowing Residential
Mowing Commercial
Mowing Condominium
Mowing Sports Fields
Mowing Cemeteries
Mulch Installs
Mulch pine bark mulch
Mulch pine needles
Mulch Spraying
Organic Lawn Care of lawns
Organic Lawn Programs
Parking Lot Line Marking
Parking Lot Sweeping of sand and debris
Paving Installations and hardscapes
Pavers Stone
Pavers Concrete
Pavement Sweeping
Pavement and litter control
Pavement line marking
Planting Trees & Shrubs in landscapes
Pressure washing of houses, vehicles, walks
Pruning of shrubs,
Pruning trees
Pruning ornamental trees
Putting Greens Installations - artificial turf for golf
Retaining Walls Installed of wood, stone
Retaining Walls Timbers
Roto Tilling turf, soil, lawns
Roto Tilling gardens
Salting Roads
Salting Walks
Sanding Roads
Sanding Walks
Sanding & Salting of parking lots and roads for ice control
Seeding lawns
Seeding wildflowers
Site Work of grading, hauling, rock removal prior to seeding
Slit Seeding of lawns
Slit Seeders
Snow Plowing Prices
Snow Plowing and ice control
Snow Removal
Snow Plowing Driveways
Snow Plowing Hourly Rates
Snow Plowing By The Inch
Snow Plowing By The Storm
Snow Plowing Fixed Seasonal Rates
Snow Shoveling
Snow Blowing Walks & Driveways
Sod Installations on lawns
Sod Rolls Installed
Sodding from Pallets
Spraying Lawns
Spraying Weeds
Spraying Shrubs
Spraying Trees
Spraying Curb Lines
Spring Cleanups of lawns, beds and paved areas
Stone Installations for shrub beds, landscape areas
String Trimming Lawns
String Trimming Edging
String Trimming Obstacles
String Trimming Trees
Stump Grinding after removal and tree takedowns
Tree & Shrub Programs - fertilizing - weed & insect control
Tree Trimming of ornamental trees in landscapes
Trimming Shrubs
Trimming Trees
Trucking & Hauling of landscape materials
Turf Installs
Turf Removal
Turf Repairs
Underpricing Mowing
Underpricing landscapes
Underpricing grounds maintenance
Vegetation Management for weed control, growth control
Weeding shrub beds
Weeds in lawns
Weeding Pavement
Weeding Parking Lot Curbs

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Job Estimating Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/job_estimating_package.htm)
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)
New Business Startup Package (http://nilssonbooks.com/just_getting_started.htm)
Complete Operations Management System (http://nilssonbooks.com/coms_package.htm)


Nilsson's Price Guidelines are also useful for real estate management companies, parks & recreation departments, municipalities, college and university campus grounds maintenance supervisors and grounds management cost estimators and budget departments. The Price Guides give an approximation of what their grounds care maintenance and landscape improvement jobs, grounds expansion and development costs are likely to be.

When it comes to pricing lawn and landscape jobs nobody has more landscape industry pricing information than Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants. Nilsson's Job Price Guides covers lawn care bids, job bidding & estimating for tree care, irrigation installation & service, pavement sweeping & maintenance, snow plowing operations, landscaping and hardscaping job bids for both commercial & residential customers as well as real estate management, parks & recreation departments, municipalities, college and univeristy grounds. The prices cover; estimates & bids for grounds services, landscaping pricing estimates , estimating & bid the price seasonal work, year around commercial estimate contracts, price per square foot, best grounds maintenance & landscaping job to bid & pricing, price of lawn care, lawn mowing price, aeration pricing, lawns, commercial landscape job bid estimates, most all outdoor maintenance estimating & pricing, mulching prices, pricing chemicals, weeding & aerating pricing, fertilizer prices, prices for organic fertilizer, pricing weeds in beds, pricing pruning & trimming trees & shrubs, pricing commercial & residential snow plowing, hardscape pricing, pricing hydroseeding, irrigation service estimates for commercial & residential, pricing seeding lawns, pricing lawn sod, prices for slit seeding lawns, pricing edging lawn beds, spring cleanup prices, pricing fall cleanups, hourly price of pressure washing walks & patios, pricing trees, stump grinding prices, price for gutter cleaning, lawn dethatching price, price for shoveling snow, pricing salting, price for sanding.

Information about Pricing Click Here for FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm)


Lawn Care Pricing and Pricing Landscape Jobs
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Lawn Care & Landscape Pricing for green industry contractors has gotten a lot easier with the help of the FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm) published by Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants. Nilsson's Price Guidelines are FREE to book customers at Nilsson's website and covers an extensive line of service prices for lawn care job bidding & estimating landscaping job bids for commercial & residential lawn customers. See the list below of the work items covered.

The Job Pricing Guidelines shows current prices in use for hundreds of work items. You name it and you'll see it priced in these lawn and landscape business price guidelines. It's designed for use by professional landscapers, lawn care, all green industry people involved in job estimating, job cost and lawn and landscape jobs from around the United States.

The prices used in the Job Pricing Guidelines are compiled and updated from Nilsson's book customers surveys chosen from various regions of the country from Nilsson's book customer list of over 25,000 landscapers in the U.S. and conducted each year by Nilsson Associates, Green Industry Consultants

According to Nilsson Associates, new start up lawn services businesses and industry veterans alike, often lose sight or are unaware of current market pricing patterns and some just starting in the business have no idea what to charge to cover costs and allow a profit. The guides are best used as starting points to help avoid pricing too low or too high, so as to remain competitive with others. Pricing information is crucial to business survival, staying competitive and remaining profitable.

Nilsson's FREE Job Pricing Guidelines (http://nilssonbooks.com/free_job_guidelines.htm) are also useful for real estate management companies, parks & recreation departments, municipalities, college and university campus grounds maintenance supervisors and grounds management cost estimators and budget departments. The Price Guides give an approximation of what their grounds care maintenance and landscape improvement jobs, grounds expansion and development costs are likely to be.


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About Nilsson Associates
Since 1975 Nilsson Associates has helped landscapers start businesses, improve their operations, grow, and make money. Nilsson is a Nationally recognized "Best Selling Author", Business Consultant, and Seminar Presenter with over 30 years experience in the Green Industry. His articles are published by Grounds Maintenance Magazine, Lawn & Landscape Magazine, PRO, The Arborist, Landscaper Publications of New York, The Professional Grounds Management Society, and The Professional Lawn Care Association of America.

Nilsson owned and operated a successful Landscape Design-Build-Maintain firm for 15 years, and for many years was retained as Business Coach and Management Advisor to the national membership of the Professional Lawn Care Association of America.

Nilsson's books are endorsed by National Trade Associations, The California Landscape Contractors Association, The Professional Grounds Management Society, The Horticultural Departments of Ohio State University, The University of Tennessee, and The University of Georgia. Nilsson's books are in use by over 25,000 Landscape Contractors, Lawn Care Companies, Property Managers, Government Facilities, Park Departments and Municipalities nationwide.

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Green Industry Consultants
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