Need help pricing a job...

[S&WLawn]

I live in Maryland and I am taking on my first "big" job, trying to begin getting away from just mowing to hardscaping type of work. Here is a little bit about the job I have:

1. I need to remove, by hand (man power, shovel, wheel barrow), about a half-3/4's of a 8 foot truck bed of mulch chips. The client had stumps ground down and the company left all the chips in the back yard.

2. I need to remove a 6x6 area of old (looks like half cinderblocks) paver stones.

3. Till about 750/800 square feet of soil to get it graded out flat and ready for seeding.

4. Bring in a 8 foot truck bed load of top soil to help fill in any low areas (won't be many) and to bring in a piece of a hill, grade it to meet the flat area (creating like a quarter bowl effect in the one corner of his property)

5. Seed

6. Lay some marble rock in the beds of a three step timber framed stairway

All of this will be done mostly by me and my partner and a small inexpensive labor crew that I use once in awhile.

Any suggestions... I truly do not know where to begin pricing a job that mostly deals with labor...

[JNyz]

How many man hours do you expect this to take?

[openbook]

It sounds like too much piddly work to have a labor crew with you. 50-60 bucks an hour would be good. 1. would probably take me half hour to an hour. 2. would take the same, then I'd have to go dump but I don't know of any place that would take both wood chips and cement so I would have to go to two seperate places I think. That'd be another couple hours. 3. would be about the same, except I don't own a tiller.
See what I'm saying though it's too much running around to keep a crew busy. I suppose you could bring the tiller and marble rock but what are the guy's going to be doing while you are out dumping and picking up soil.

[S&WLawn]

1. hour
2. half hour
3. 2 hours
4. hour and a half
5. half hour
6. half hour

looking at 6 hours give or take... plus say 4 hours in drive time... plus gas... plus materials... I was thinking 1000/1500 off the top of my head.. with out going into great detail... too much you think???

[JNyz]

I think you are in the ballpark.