See What a Trash-Can Route Could Earn

Enter your own pricing, labor, route, and operating assumptions. The calculator will estimate the potential monthly and annual performance of a trash-can-to-curb service.

Built for lawn-care companies, landscapers, junk-removal crews, and other local service businesses considering an added recurring-revenue line.

Your assumptions

Active service customers

Paying homeowner customers you serve each month (staff logins are never counted).

Average monthly price charged per customer

Your total average monthly charge per customer, including averaged add-ons.

Service runs per customer per week

“1” may be curb-out service only; “2” may represent separate curb-out and return runs. Allowed 1–7.

Target stops per full route

How many stops a fully loaded route is designed to cover. Reasonable range 5–100.

Expected route efficiency

Routes are rarely filled perfectly — geography, customer density, scheduling, and early growth-stage gaps all lower this. Range 50–100%.

Crew pay per completed route

What you pay labor to complete one route.

Fuel and supplies per route

Fuel, bags, and consumable supplies for one route.

Payment-processing percentage

Card-processing rate applied to your revenue.

Payment-processing fixed charge per customer

Flat per-transaction fee charged on each customer payment (commonly around $0.30).

Additional monthly overhead

Optional. Insurance, advertising, management, vehicles, phones, and any other expenses you choose to include.

Estimated monthly profit

$738

$8,854 estimated per year

Profit may change in steps as additional routes become necessary.

Monthly breakdown

Monthly revenue: $1,800
Crew payroll: minus −$770
Fuel and supplies: minus −$110
Payment processing: minus −$82
TrashCans2Curbs software — $1 per active customer: minus −$100
Additional monthly overhead: minus −$0
Total monthly operating costs: minus −$1,062
Routes required per service run: 5 routes
Estimated service routes per month: 22 routes
Profit per active customer: $7.38
Estimated stable break-evenRoute expenses increase in steps when another route is required. Stable break-even estimates the customer count after which the projection remains profitable under the selected assumptions.: 23 customers
Time to recover the $500 setup fee: 0.7 months

Based on 100 customers paying an average of $18 per month, at 1 service run per week — about 5 routes per service run and approximately 22 service routes per month. Software cost is $100 of $1,800 in gross monthly revenue.

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Estimates only. Estimates are provided for planning purposes only and are not a guarantee of revenue or profit. Actual results depend on customer density, route geography, service frequency, pricing, labor, cancellations, taxes, insurance, fuel, marketing, and other operating expenses. Taxes are not calculated here — sales, payroll, and income taxes are excluded from every figure above.