FREE WORKED PRICING EXAMPLE

Pet Sitting Pricing Example

See one fully worked hypothetical example before building your own numbers. The figures below demonstrate the method; they are not market-rate recommendations.

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Hypothetical example: one 30-minute visit

Important: every figure on this page is illustrative. Replace it with your own measured service time, travel, overhead and owner-time requirement before making a pricing decision.

Input	Example value	Why it is included
Client-facing visit	30 min	The visible service duration.
Total travel / arrival	20 min	Time consumed to deliver the booking.
Booking-specific admin	10 min	Messages, notes, access/admin tied to the service.
Variable cash cost	$2.50	Illustrative service-specific cash cost.
Monthly operating overhead	$600	Illustrative recurring operating cost pool.
Realistic monthly service-block hours	100 hr	Used to allocate overhead for management planning.
Owner-time requirement	$24/hr	Illustrative internal value assigned to owner delivery time.
Illustrative contribution target	20% of price	A management target used only to demonstrate the formula.

Step 1 — complete service time

Complete block30 service + 20 travel + 10 admin = 60 minutes

The client sees a 30-minute visit, but the business gives up a 60-minute operating block in this hypothetical example.

Step 2 — allocate operating overhead

Overhead per service-block hour$600 ÷ 100 hours = $6.00

Because the example block is one hour, the management allocation is $6.00.

Step 3 — add the owner-time requirement

Owner-time requirement1 hour × $24 = $24.00

Step 4 — build the internal economic floor

Economic floor$2.50 variable cost + $6.00 overhead + $24.00 owner time = $32.50

This is an internal management floor in the example. It is not tax/accounting profit and it is not a recommended public price.

Step 5 — demonstrate an illustrative target

Illustrative target price$32.50 ÷ (1 − 0.20) = $40.63

At $40.63, the arithmetic leaves about $8.13 above the example floor, which equals 20% of the price by construction. The next step is not “therefore charge $40.63.” The next step is to test your own result against service scope, constrained capacity, local professional market position and demand.

What this example teaches: a 30-minute service can consume materially more than 30 minutes of business capacity. Build internal economics from the complete delivery requirement before comparing public rates.

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