Estate Cleanout Pricing Calculator
Price an estate cleanout from your own numbers: sorting crew-hours, haul loads with tipping fees, donation drop-offs, dumpster days, a resale offset, and margin.
How this is calculated
The quote is built from sorting labor, disposal loads, tipping fees, donations, dumpster rental, a resale offset, and a target margin.
sortingLabor = crewSize x sortingHours x crewRate
haulCost = loads x haulRatePerLoad
tippingCost = loads x tippingFeePerLoad
donationCost = donationTrips x costPerTrip
dumpsterCost = dumpsterDays x ratePerDay
grossCost = sorting + haul + tipping + donation + dumpster
netCost = grossCost - min(resaleOffset, grossCost)
price = netCost / (1 - marginPct)
jobExTax = max(price, jobMinimum)
tax = jobExTax x taxRateNo price presets anywhere. Every currency field starts empty. The target margin starts at 35% as an editable starting point. Margin is applied the correct way, as a share of the price you charge, not a naive markup on cost.
The resale offset is capped at gross cost. If recovered items are worth more than the total expenses, the tool flags it rather than showing a negative cost.
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What this prices, and what it deliberately does not
An estate cleanout is not a single haul. Where the junk removal volume pricing calculator prices one load by truck fraction, cubic yards, or an item list, this tool prices the whole project: the sorting crew, several disposal loads with tipping fees, donation drop-offs, dumpster or truck rental, and any resale or salvage value recovered during the sort.
The tool does not recommend a sorting method, advise on estate law, or tell you which items are hazardous. What it offers is the pricing structure, with every money field blank until you fill it from your own job costing.
Sorting labor is the line most operators undercount
Sorting can be the biggest single cost on an estate cleanout: a crew walks the property room by room, separating items for disposal, donation, and resale. Operators who skip the sort and jump straight to loading risk hauling recoverable items and paying tipping fees on things a charity would have taken for free. This calculator starts with the sorting crew because pricing a cleanout without it can misprice the job. Hoarder cleanouts magnify the same dynamic: the sorting volume rises but the pricing structure stays the same.
The resale offset is subtracted from cost, never from price
If the sort recovers items with resale or salvage value, the offset reduces your gross cost before the margin calculation. The tool caps the offset at the gross cost: if the recovered value exceeds the expenses the tool flags it rather than showing a negative cost, because a cleanout that pays for itself through salvage alone is a different kind of project.
For the contract side of the work, the junk removal contract template covers the scope-of-work and liability language, and the junk removal pricing sheet organizes your per-load and per-item rates into a printable menu.
Everything runs in your browser: no account, no email gate, nothing stored or sent.