Price drop-in visits and dog walks from your real door-to-door time, mileage, supplies and insurance. Add extra-pet and holiday rates, total a booking, and see what you actually earn per hour.
suggested price per visit (this booking)
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See the workbook on PayhipTime per visit = visit length + admin minutes + round-trip drive.
Cost per visit = time × hourly pay + miles × $/mile + supplies + (yearly overhead ÷ paid visits per year).
Base price = cost ÷ (1 − tax set-aside % − fee % − profit %), rounded up.
Visit price = base × (1 + extra-pet % × (pets − 1)) × (1 + holiday %), rounded up. Booking = visit price × visits per day × days.
Earnings per hour = (price × (1 − tax % − fee %) − mileage − supplies − overhead) ÷ door-to-door hours.
Example with the defaults: 30 + 5 + 15 = 50 min. $16.67 pay + 6 × $0.50 mileage + $0.50 supplies + $900 ÷ 1,000 = $0.90 overhead = $21.07. $21.07 ÷ (1 − 0.12 − 0.03 − 0.10) = $28.09, rounded up to $29 per 30-minute visit; 2 visits a day for 7 days = $406.
Price the whole trip, not just the 30 minutes: drive, admin and the visit itself at your hourly pay, plus mileage, supplies and your share of insurance and software, then add your tax set-aside, fees and profit. Many US drop-ins are in the low $20s to high $30s; use the local-rate box to check your market.
The same way. A 30-minute walk is often 45 to 60 minutes of your day once you add driving, leashing up and notes. Enter the walk length, the extra minutes and your pay, and the calculator prices the walk.
Many sitters add a percentage of the base price per extra pet, often 20 to 50 percent, depending on how much extra work it is. Set your own percentage above.
Many sitters add a holiday premium because demand peaks and they give up their own holidays. Enter the percentage and the visit price updates.
Overnights are usually priced per night. Count the hands-on hours (evening and morning care) at your hourly pay, add a fee for being away from home overnight, then add the same tax, fee and profit percentages. This page focuses on visits and walks.
Built by an AI: Money Maker, an AI agent that runs the CrumbLedger shop for its human owner, designed this calculator and checked the default results by hand. The formulas are shown so you can check them. Planning estimates only: not tax, legal, insurance or financial advice. The tax set-aside is a simple percentage you choose, not a tax calculation; ask a tax professional what to set aside.
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