Nilsson's Labor Time Data Handbook

For:
Landscaping Contractors
Lawn Care Service Providers
Parks & Recreation Managers
Grounds Superintendants
Real Estate Managers
Public & Private School Grounds
Hotels - Motels - Resorts Maintenance
College & University Campus Grounds Maintainers
Corporate Grounds Facility Managers
Military Base Roads & Grounds Facility Managers
Facility Managers - Parks & Grounds Maintenance
Amusement Theme Parks Upkeep
Cemetery Facilities & Grounds Maintenance
Mowers
Campus Grounds & Roads
Snow Removal & Plowing
Facility Grounds Maintenance
Sports & Parks - Recreation Turf Field Managers
Airport Facility Grounds Managers
State & National Parks
Public & Private Schools, Parks, Facilities
Sports Turf for Public & Private Parks
Campgrounds & Parks & Recreation Facilities
Budget Equipment Requirements - Park Departments

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.

How to order
Labor Time Data Handbook
Written by Nilsson Associates
Book # A-7, Price $69.50
To order online Click Here:
To order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

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For Grounds Maintenance and Landscape Management & Installation Work shows How Long The Jobs Will Take based on time studies of the work under various conditions including weather, day of week, working conditions and factors that improve or decrease labor efficiency. Labor Time Data Handbook #1 Best Seller for Job Hours Estimating, by individual work task for Lawn Bids, Lawn Care Service & Commercial Landscape Business Contractors, Commercial & Residential sites of any size acreage. Also useful to Parks & Recreation Grounds Maintenance Departments, Schools, Playground Maintenance, Facility Grounds Managers For: Lawn Care & Landscape Business Maintenance Estimates, Commercial Landscaper bids for cost comparisons, Lawn Maintenance Operators who Bid: Lawns, Bid Chemical Programs, Bid Lawn Renovations & seeding, Campus Lawns & Grounds Managers and industrial cost and labor accountng applications as well as public bid labor cost and job cost expectations. The labor time data Has over 500 field tested, time-studied labor hours data for all grounds work, landscapes, lawn bids, service & landscaping and commercial grounds maintenance job estimating. Bid with more confidence, save time preparing bids using the labor hours time tables broken down by job criteria and know best crew size based on work assigned using a balanced labor crew time application that results in getting a full days work from lawn care & landscape employees, never under or overprice a bid again, set realistic labor goals for commercial grounds maintenance & landscape employees. Among many work task categories ... Includes labor hours for lawn Mowing, edging beds & walks, trimming shrubs, pruning plants & trees, snow plowing, ice control, tree planting, mulching beds, aeration, slit seeding, shrub beds, hardscapes, blowing leaves, lawn chemical applications, spring and fall cleanups, seed, flowers, and commercial lawn maintenance job tasks. Just about every job performed in a lawn mowing service landscaping business and grounds maintenance. Price and cost jobs fast using the daya by finding the lawn care, grounds maintenance or landscape job category, follow the tables for task time within the work category and developing a line-by-line job bid. When a lawn care or landscape job is finished, compare your budgeted hours gotten from the time tables with actual job time spent. Use the time tables to assign realistic daily work goals. Compile a month by month hourly work schedule for grounds maintenance work, landscape job tasks and know how many workers you need for mowing, cleanups, pruning, bed work etc. Post the labor hours to your customer records. Know the profitability of each custoemr account, see exactly where too much time was spent by work category. In the reference section capture and pinpoint job costs for lawn care, cleanups, edging, pruning, trimming, and all landscape and grounds maintenance work underway and use the outlines to recap labor costs, materials, direct costs and overhead costs. Use the landscape instalation formats as a guide to developing sequential, step by step work outlines for estimating landscape job costs and use these as a goal to plan and do the work each day that a landscape project is inderway and upon completion, compare budgeted goals or hours to actual hours the work took to completion.

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
To order online Click Here:
To order by phone Toll Free 1-866-280-2252

Other
resources:
Sales Boosters
Job Estimating Package
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines
New Business Startup Package
Complete Operations management System

Nilsson's Job Estimating System has everything you need to evaluate job site specifications & work required, figure costs, how to price ~ lawns, grounds maintenance, landscape installs. You'll get step - by - step instructions, bid proposal outlines & customer contracts, labor hours job times. You'll get job price guides to compare your prices with the going rates, overhead costs, materials, profit ratios. You'll set realistic prices, and job labor hours goals based on field tested, proven, time studied labor hours for every job you bid. You'll know how to evaluate every job for total work hours required, the price to charge for the job, the profit you'll make, best crew size, job costs. You'll also get add-on service check lists to help you maximize sales by upselling customers on additional property improvements.

__________________
Phil Nilsson
Toll Free 866-280-2252
www.nilssonbooks.com

Nilsson is a Nationally recognized "Best Selling Landscape Industry Author," Business Consultant, Speaker with over 30 years experience in the Landscape Industry. His articles appear in Grounds Maintenance Magazine, Lawn & Landscape, PRO, The Arborist, Landscaper Publications, P.G.M.S. and P.L.C.A.A

Make Informed Pricing Decisions

Save Time Preparing Bids, and Win More Jobs

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Pricing is one of the toughest, trickiest, and most important decisions you make. If you price too high - you won't get the jobs, can't pay your bills, and price yourself out of business. If you price too low - you'll get the jobs, but can't make a profit, and end up losing money or working for next to nothing. To price right and win bids that have profit potential, you must know job costs, the market, and what the competition is charging. Nilsson's Job Pricing Guides can help you price right and win bids by showing you what the competition is charging nationwide. You'll have the most accurate pricing tool available to make informed pricing decisions. You'll gain confidence in your job bids, save time calculating and preparing work proposals, and avoid the risks of mispriced jobs.

Nilsson's Job Pricing Guidelines are in use by lawn and landscape contractors nationwide.

See what other landscapers are currently charging from price lists compiled and updated by Nilsson Associates. Avoid Pricing Too High - Avoid Pricing Too Low - Win More Bids. Compare Your Prices With Nilsson's Price Lists Before You Bid - Makes Pricing Lawn & Landscape Jobs Fast, Easy, Accurate, Competitive.

Nilsson's Job Pricing Guides takes the guesswork out of bidding, and helps build confidence in your bids before you present them to your customers. Makes Job Bidding easier, faster. Figure your price for a job, then compare your price with the list price before you bid, or use the price given in the price lists to bid on jobs shown below:

Includes
Prices For:
Aerating lawns
Aerating Core
Back Pak Spraying lawns,
Bak Pak weeds shrub beds, curbs
Bed Edging - in lawns
Bed Construction
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
Vegetation Management for weed control, growth control
Weeding shrub beds
Weeds in lawns
Weeding Pavement
Weeding Parking Lot Curbs

For more info: FREE Job Pricing Guidelines

About Nilsson Associates
Business consultant, speaker, nationally recognized best selling author, Phil Nilsson's articles are published in Lawn & Landscape, PRO Magazine, The Arborist and Landscaper Publications. Nilsson's books are endorsed by national trade organizations and are in use by thousands of landscapers, parks, municipalities, universities and property managers.
Nilsson owned and operated a successful Landscape Design-Build-Maintain firm for 15 years. Nilsson Associates are Consultants to the membership of the Professional Lawn Care Association of America.

Other
resources:
Sales Boosters
Job Estimating Package
FREE Job Pricing Guidelines
New Business Startup Package
Complete Operations management System

Nilsson's Job Estimating System has everything you need to evaluate job site specifications & work required, figure costs, how to price ~ lawns, grounds maintenance, landscape installs. You'll get step - by - step instructions, bid proposal outlines & customer contracts, labor hours job times. You'll get job price guides to compare your prices with the going rates, overhead costs, materials, profit ratios. You'll set realistic prices, and job labor hours goals based on field tested, proven, time studied labor hours for every job you bid. You'll know how to evaluate every job for total work hours required, the price to charge for the job, the profit you'll make, best crew size, job costs. You'll also get add-on service check lists to help you maximize sales by upselling customers on additional property improvements.


For more info: FREE Job Pricing Guidelines

__________________
Phil Nilsson
Toll Free 866-280-2252
www.nilssonbooks.com

Nilsson is a Nationally recognized "Best Selling Landscape Industry Author," Business Consultant, Speaker with over 30 years experience in the Landscape Industry. His articles appear in Grounds Maintenance Magazine, Lawn & Landscape, PRO, The Arborist, Landscaper Publications, P.G.M.S. and P.L.C.A.A