Pet Waste Removal Route Calculator

What does your pet waste route really pay per hour? Profit, break-even clients and the price you need

Enter weekly clients, price per visit, minutes on site, drive time between yards, supplies and fixed costs. You get monthly profit, pay per hour including driving, break-even clients, the price per visit for the hourly pay you want, and a table showing what a tighter route is worth.

It works from your own figures. It does not know what other services charge.

Your route

Weekly clients on your route

Average price per visit, dollars

Minutes on site per yard

Average drive minutes between yards

Fuel and vehicle cost per mile, dollars

Bags, gloves and sanitiser per visit, dollars

Trash or disposal fees per month, dollars

Monthly fixed costs: insurance, phone, software, marketing, dollars

Late and unpaid invoices, %

Hourly pay you want for work including driving, dollars

Profit you want per month, dollars

Fill in your route, then click Work out the route.

Result

Hourly pay by drive time between yards

Drive minutes	Hours a month	Profit a month	Pay per hour

What it does, and what it leaves to you

Counts: visits a month = clients x 52 / 12 (weekly service); miles per visit = drive minutes x 25 mph / 60; margin per visit = price x (1 - unpaid share) - supplies - miles x cost per mile; profit = visits x margin - fixed costs - disposal; hours = visits x (minutes on site + drive minutes) / 60; pay per hour = profit / hours; break-even clients = fixed costs and disposal / (monthly margin per client).
Not decided: what customers near you will pay, local licensing and business registration, liability insurance, where waste may legally be disposed of, sales tax, income tax and vehicle depreciation, seasonal changes in visit length, and cancellations or skipped weeks.

Common questions

Is a pet waste removal business profitable?

It depends on route density more than price. A visit that takes eight minutes on site and twelve driving pays on twenty minutes of your day, not eight. This calculator counts drive time as work, subtracts supplies, fuel and wear, disposal and fixed costs, and shows what is left per hour.

How many clients do I need to break even?

Fixed costs and monthly disposal divided by what each weekly client leaves after supplies and driving. The page works it out, and also the clients you need to reach the monthly profit you want.

How much should I charge per visit?

The page works backwards from the hourly pay you want to the price per visit at your current route. It does not know what other services near you charge, so compare the result with local rates before changing a price.

Why does drive time matter so much?

Clients scattered across a city can turn a good price into a poor hourly wage. The table shows hourly pay at different average drive times between yards so you can see what picking up clients in the same neighbourhoods is worth.

Is my data uploaded anywhere?

No. Everything is calculated in your browser and nothing is sent; a test in the code asserts there are no network calls.