Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 12:47     Subject: Reasonable amount to pay a kid to cut your lawn?
Anonymous wrote:$80.

More if bagging and removing the cut grass is required.


You're insane.

We have an acre in McLean, and a professional service that edges and weeds. That's what we pay.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 12:46     Subject: Reasonable amount to pay a kid to cut your lawn?
2 or 3 times minimal wage, which in VA is $12 an hour.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 12:45     Subject: Reasonable amount to pay a kid to cut your lawn?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:$50


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We pay a service $50. Ride-on mower that takes less than 30 mins. But that should include edging imo.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 12:43     Subject: Reasonable amount to pay a kid to cut your lawn?
If it is your kid, zero. That’s an expectation. If it’s a stranger, maybe $40. They are not trained, after all.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 12:39     Subject: Reasonable amount to pay a kid to cut your lawn?
Anonymous wrote:$50


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Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 12:38     Subject: Reasonable amount to pay a kid to cut your lawn?
Apparently I am seriously underpaying my own teenager. Holy moly. Don't tell her you are paying $50 for this. Yikes.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 12:29     Subject: Reasonable amount to pay a kid to cut your lawn?
Anonymous wrote:By kid I mean a 19 year old. Takes about an hour to cut it. Push lawnmower - NOVA.
His lawnmower or yours?
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 12:28     Subject: Reasonable amount to pay a kid to cut your lawn?
$50
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 10:13     Subject: Reasonable amount to pay a kid to cut your lawn?
Anonymous wrote:By kid I mean a 19 year old. Takes about an hour to cut it. Push lawnmower - NOVA.


So, you mean an adult.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 10:12     Subject: Reasonable amount to pay a kid to cut your lawn?
Anonymous wrote:Why would any kid want to push a manual mower for an hour?

I imagine you’d have to offer double rates for that.


No one said manual.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 09:16     Subject: Reasonable amount to pay a kid to cut your lawn?
Anonymous wrote:$80.

More if bagging and removing the cut grass is required.


For an hour? Wow.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 09:16     Subject: Reasonable amount to pay a kid to cut your lawn?
Why would any kid want to push a manual mower for an hour?

I imagine you’d have to offer double rates for that.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 09:16     Subject: Reasonable amount to pay a kid to cut your lawn?
I pay $40 to a 16 year old but he’s a friend of family so not sure if that’s the going rate. He comes and brings his own mower and edger too so I figure I am paying for wear and tear on that as well as his time. Might be a little over an hour.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 09:15     Subject: Reasonable amount to pay a kid to cut your lawn?
$80.

More if bagging and removing the cut grass is required.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2025 09:14     Subject: Reasonable amount to pay a kid to cut your lawn?
By kid I mean a 19 year old. Takes about an hour to cut it. Push lawnmower - NOVA.