Going rate for teen snow shovelers?

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Anonymous wrote:This snow is not easy so I gave the 2 teens - $40.

I hope it was $40 for each of them and not $40 total.

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My 13yo and his friend earned $20 for a smaller driveway, and split between them.

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People with tractors and trucks with plows are charging $150 - $200. So if you are cheap and want to take advantage of neighborhood kids, then you can pay them $100.

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Anonymous wrote:My teen is getting 20$/hr (and some tips.) But he said some of his other friends are charging 50$/house (which is bizarre to me because houses are all different sizes) which ends up being 50$/hr.

Many people's houses take more than an hour.

My kids have discovered that if they let the person paying pick the price, it's almost always more than they would have felt comfortable asking for. This year, in particular, people are very generous.

And many people’s houses take far less than an hour-particularly if you don’t live in Exurblandia with McMansions. I do agree that letting people decide what to pay is typically more generous that what a teenager should expect.

But there are exceptions. My poor kid ended up getting 10$ after shoveling a house for an hour for an elderly neighbor last year. It’s not always that people are generous and elderly people in particular sometimes have a frame of reference from 30 years ago.

Elderly people are also often on fixed incomes. Honestly, I shovel my elderly's neighbor for free because I'm neighborly.

Young people are on fixed incomes too, and those incomes pay elderly fixed incomes

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My driveway and sidewalk took 6 person-hours to shovel off the ice.

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Anonymous wrote:My teen is getting 20$/hr (and some tips.) But he said some of his other friends are charging 50$/house (which is bizarre to me because houses are all different sizes) which ends up being 50$/hr.

Many people's houses take more than an hour.

My kids have discovered that if they let the person paying pick the price, it's almost always more than they would have felt comfortable asking for. This year, in particular, people are very generous.

And many people’s houses take far less than an hour-particularly if you don’t live in Exurblandia with McMansions. I do agree that letting people decide what to pay is typically more generous that what a teenager should expect.

But there are exceptions. My poor kid ended up getting 10$ after shoveling a house for an hour for an elderly neighbor last year. It’s not always that people are generous and elderly people in particular sometimes have a frame of reference from 30 years ago.

Elderly people are also often on fixed incomes. Honestly, I shovel my elderly's neighbor for free because I'm neighborly.

Young people are on fixed incomes too, and those incomes pay elderly fixed incomes

If you are a teen going door to door shoveling, that's the opposite of fixed income.

Also, the young people are almost certainly not paying taxes on the cash they get for snow shoveling, so they are not paying for the elderly.

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Anonymous wrote:My teen is getting 20$/hr (and some tips.) But he said some of his other friends are charging 50$/house (which is bizarre to me because houses are all different sizes) which ends up being 50$/hr.

Many people's houses take more than an hour.

My kids have discovered that if they let the person paying pick the price, it's almost always more than they would have felt comfortable asking for. This year, in particular, people are very generous.

And many people’s houses take far less than an hour-particularly if you don’t live in Exurblandia with McMansions. I do agree that letting people decide what to pay is typically more generous that what a teenager should expect.

But there are exceptions. My poor kid ended up getting 10$ after shoveling a house for an hour for an elderly neighbor last year. It’s not always that people are generous and elderly people in particular sometimes have a frame of reference from 30 years ago.

Elderly people are also often on fixed incomes. Honestly, I shovel my elderly's neighbor for free because I'm neighborly.

Young people are on fixed incomes too, and those incomes pay elderly fixed incomes

If you are a teen going door to door shoveling, that's the opposite of fixed income.

Also, the young people are almost certainly not paying taxes on the cash they get for snow shoveling, so they are not paying for the elderly.

That doesn’t mean that old people should pay young people 10$/hr for work they don’t want to do. Unless they’re senile they should know the prevailing wage is higher.

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Anonymous wrote:My driveway and sidewalk took 6 person-hours to shovel off the ice.

Which is why it makes more sense to charge per hour than per house. Some people have tiny driveways and minimal sidewalks. Others have McMansions

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A teen did the end of my driveway (what the plow pushed over), cleared off the car, and MANY steps (townhouse). It took him about an hour and I gave him $50.

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I paid $200 in 20015 for a corner house for two kids. This included them shoveling twice…once when the snow stopped and then again to shovel the sleet.

Corner house has two fairly long sidewalks to shovel.

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DS earned $40 for a driveway and sidewalk in our neighborhood today.

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My son only shovels for us and a grandparent. We pay him the same rate as mowing the lawn. $30/hr. If he offered his services to neighbors, I think that would be a fair rate. It’s hard labor.

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Anonymous wrote:My son only shovels for us and a grandparent. We pay him the same rate as mowing the lawn. $30/hr. If he offered his services to neighbors, I think that would be a fair rate. It’s hard labor.

Ha we pay 15$/hr for our teen to mow our lawn. But I agree snow shoveling is much harder work. He gets 30$/hr for that.

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I paid 150 today. The kids dug out our 2 cars and put salt down. We had done nothing yesterday and it took 2 of them 2 hours today. It was a lot but this was a tough one to shovel, they earned it!
*small moco house with a lot of sidewalk

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Anonymous wrote:My teen is getting 20$/hr (and some tips.) But he said some of his other friends are charging 50$/house (which is bizarre to me because houses are all different sizes) which ends up being 50$/hr.

Many people's houses take more than an hour.

My kids have discovered that if they let the person paying pick the price, it's almost always more than they would have felt comfortable asking for. This year, in particular, people are very generous.

And many people’s houses take far less than an hour-particularly if you don’t live in Exurblandia with McMansions. I do agree that letting people decide what to pay is typically more generous that what a teenager should expect.

But there are exceptions. My poor kid ended up getting 10$ after shoveling a house for an hour for an elderly neighbor last year. It’s not always that people are generous and elderly people in particular sometimes have a frame of reference from 30 years ago.

My kid did our elderly neighbor and a few others directly next to us for free. I cannot imagine charging a neighbor vs teaching your kid to be a good person. Strangers, sure, charge. It takes way more than an hour with this snow and ice.

Elderly people are also often on fixed incomes. Honestly, I shovel my elderly's neighbor for free because I'm neighborly.