SNOW REMOVAL PRICING GUIDE
Snow removal pricing
The 2026 US rates per push and per season by driveway size, what to charge for sidewalks, roofs, salting and commercial lots, how depth changes the price — and a free calculator that turns them into a price you can put on your website.
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The short answer
A driveway clear runs $30 to $75 a visit and $300 to $700 for the season (Housecall Pro, October 2026). By size: $40–$75 a push for a single-car driveway, $75–$125 for a two-car and $125–$250 for a four-car; seasonal contracts $300–$400, $400–$600 and $600–$1,000 for the same three.
Sidewalks and walkways are $40–$80 a visit, salting or de-icing $20–$40, roof snow clearing $200–$700 and ice-dam removal $650–$2,400 (Housecall Pro). Commercial lots run $75–$200 an event or $500–$2,000 a season. Depth moves the price: up to 6 inches $75–$150, 6–12 inches $105–$200, 12–18 inches $135–$250, or $12.50–$25 per inch for the first six and $5–$8.50 an inch after.
Lawn Love puts the average at $105 a visit and $700 a season, with most homeowners paying $45–$160 a visit or $300–$1,000 for the season (October 2026); Taskrabbit's taskers average $41 an hour, with per-visit work at $50–$200 (October 2026). Hourly: $25–$75 for shoveling and snow-blowing, $50–$100 for plowing, $50–$200 for commercial plowing (Housecall Pro).
Sell the season: a contract paid up front covers the truck payment in a dry winter, and a per-push price with a depth surcharge covers the storms. Put both on your website before the first forecast — January's searches for snow removal pricing run five times October's (Google search volume, DataForSEO, October 2026).
FREE PRICE CALCULATOR
What should I charge for this property?
Pick the job and the size, set the snow depth, and tick salting or ice-dam work. The range uses the published 2026 US rates in the table below.
Suggested price
$75–$125
driveway, per push, two-car
A starting range from published US rates — not a bid for a particular property. Measure the driveway, agree the trigger depth and the salting rule in writing, and price the season from your own truck costs.
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RATES · OCTOBER 2026
Snow removal rates (2026)
Per push by driveway size, or the season up front. Housecall Pro also prints $0.08–$0.10 per square foot for large areas and $12.50–$25 an inch for the first six inches; Lawn Love's homeowner averages are $105 a visit and $700 a season (October 2026).
| The job | Typical US price · source |
|---|---|
| Driveway, per push | Single-car: $40–$75 · Two-car: $75–$125 · Four-car or long: $125–$250 · Housecall Pro |
| Residential seasonal contract | Single-car: $300–$400 · Two-car: $400–$600 · Four-car or long: $600–$1,000 · Housecall Pro |
| Walkway or sidewalk, per visit | Walkway and sidewalk: $40–$80 · Housecall Pro |
| Commercial parking lot | Per event: $75–$200 · Seasonal contract: $500–$2,000 · Housecall Pro |
| Roof snow clearing | Roof clear: $200–$700 · Housecall Pro |
| Plowing by the hour | $50–$100 per hour · about $50–$100 for 1 hour · Housecall Pro |
| Shoveling or snow-blowing, hourly | $25–$75 an hour · Housecall Pro |
Rates read off each publisher's page in October 2026. The calculator above uses exactly these numbers. Full source list below.
ADD-ONS AND ADJUSTMENTS
What to add for depth, salt and ice
The storm sets the surcharge; salting and ice dams are their own lines.
| What | Typical US price · source |
|---|---|
| Snow depth: 6–12 inches | $105–$200 against $75–$150 for up to 6 inches · Housecall Pro figures |
| Snow depth: 12–18 inches | $135–$250 against $75–$150 for up to 6 inches · Housecall Pro figures |
| Salting or de-icing | +$20–$40 · Housecall Pro |
| Ice-dam removal | +$650–$2,400 · Housecall Pro |
Where a row shows a sum (a rate × a quantity, or a percentage worked out from published dollar ranges), the arithmetic is ours and the inputs are the publisher's.
THE PRICING FORMULA
How to price snow removal
Six steps from the driveway to the number on your contract.
Size the driveway
Single-car, two-car or four-car-and-long is the trade's unit: $40–$75, $75–$125 and $125–$250 a push (Housecall Pro). Walk it in autumn and note the piling spots before the snow hides the edges.
Set a trigger depth and a depth surcharge
Write the trigger depth into the contract. Past 6 inches the price steps up — $105–$200 for 6–12 inches, $135–$250 for 12–18 against $75–$150 under six (Housecall Pro) — or charge $12.50–$25 an inch for the first six.
Offer the season
$300–$400 for a single-car, $400–$600 two-car, $600–$1,000 large (Housecall Pro) — roughly eight to ten pushes paid up front. It carries the truck in a dry winter; cap the visits or add a heavy-season clause.
Price salt separately
Salting or de-icing is $20–$40 a visit (Housecall Pro), $20–$50 on Lawn Love. Salt is a cost you can't predict a season ahead, so keep it a per-application line.
Charge commercial by the event or the season
$75–$200 an event or $500–$2,000 a season for a parking lot, $50–$200 an hour for commercial plowing (Housecall Pro). Lots need a sidewalk crew and a salt plan — price both.
Keep roofs and ice dams as their own jobs
Roof snow clearing is $200–$700 and ice-dam removal $650–$2,400 (Housecall Pro) — different tools, different insurance; never fold them into a driveway price.
The formula, worked through
Say a two-car driveway with a front walk, 9 inches of snow, salt afterwards.
A two-car push is $75–$125 (Housecall Pro). Nine inches sits in the 6–12 inch band, about 33% to 40% above a sub-six-inch clear on Housecall Pro's depth table, so $100–$175. The walkway adds $40–$80 and salting $20–$40.
That's about $160–$295 for the storm. For the same house on a season contract, $400–$600 covers the driveway, with the walk and the salt either in the price or as lines. So “driveway plowing from $75 a push, seasons from $400” is a fair line for your price list. The arithmetic is ours; the rates are the publisher's.
What to charge in your part of the country
Lawn Love's seasonal range runs from $70 at the low end to $6,000 at the high — the difference between a light-snow town and a lake-effect one with a long driveway (October 2026). Taskrabbit's average is $41 an hour nationally, with parking lots $100–$500 or more a visit and roofs $200–$500 (October 2026).
Across all prices, the Bureau of Economic Analysis puts California at 110.7 against a US average of 100 and Arkansas at 86.9 (2024 regional price parities, released February 2026) — so a $100 push in an average market is about $110 in California and about $87 in Arkansas.
What matters more than the state is the snow: average annual snowfall sets how many pushes a season buys, and that sets the seasonal price. Price the season from your town's ten-year average, not last winter.
Put your prices on your website
A price list — even “from” prices — answers a customer's first question before they pick up the phone, and it's the line an AI assistant can quote when someone asks what snow removal costs near them.
If you build your site with Zarla, tell the editor “add a pricing section: driveway plowing from $75 a push, seasonal contracts from $400, salting from $20” and your prices go on the site, in a section you can edit any time. Want to see a finished site first? Browse snow removal website templates or see how Zarla builds snow removal websites.
Still setting up? Write your snow removal business plan, browse snow removal business name ideas, and when the prices are set, read how to get lawn care customers. Raising prices you set a year ago? The price increase letter tells customers a month ahead.
Snow is the winter half of a lawn care business for many owners. For the summer side read how much to charge for lawn mowing, and for the other winter job Christmas light installation pricing. Starting out? How to start a landscaping business covers the trucks, the insurance and the first customers.
Snow removal pricing: common questions
$40–$75 a push for a single-car driveway, $75–$125 for a two-car and $125–$250 for a four-car or long one (Housecall Pro, October 2026); Taskrabbit puts a single-car at $40–$80 and a two-car at $50–$100 (October 2026). The calculator above uses Housecall Pro's bands.
$300–$400 for a single-car driveway, $400–$600 for a two-car and $600–$1,000 for a large one (Housecall Pro, October 2026). Lawn Love's homeowners pay $300–$1,000 for the season, $700 on average (October 2026). Price it as eight to ten pushes paid up front, and cap the visits.
Housecall Pro prices up to 6 inches at $75–$150, 6–12 inches at $105–$200 and 12–18 inches at $135–$250 — or $12.50–$25 an inch for the first six and $5–$8.50 an inch after (October 2026). Lawn Love's per-inch is $10–$25 then $4–$9.
$20–$40 an application (Housecall Pro), $20–$50 on Lawn Love and $25–$75 on Taskrabbit (all October 2026). Keep it a separate line — salt prices move within a season.
$25–$75 an hour for shoveling or snow-blowing, $50–$100 for plowing and $50–$200 for commercial plowing (Housecall Pro, October 2026); Taskrabbit's taskers average $41 an hour. Hourly suits odd jobs; driveways are priced per push.
$75–$200 an event or $500–$2,000 a season for a parking lot (Housecall Pro, October 2026); Taskrabbit puts commercial seasonal contracts at $1,000–$6,000 and parking lots at $100–$500 or more a visit (October 2026). Price the sidewalks and the salt plan in.
$200–$700 a job (Housecall Pro), $190–$735 on Lawn Love and up to $3,000 for a large steep roof; ice-dam removal $650–$2,400 (Housecall Pro, October 2026). Different tools and different insurance — price it as its own job.
Yes — the per-push price by driveway size, the seasonal price and the salting rule. Searches for snow removal pricing run five times higher in January than in October (DataForSEO, October 2026), and the owner who prints a price gets the call. On a Zarla site, tell the editor “add a pricing section” with your rates, and change them when the season changes.
Where these numbers come from
Every range on this page is read off a published source, dated below. They're US figures for residential work — typical, not a rule; your costs and your market come first.
- Housecall Pro — Snow Removal Price Guide 2026 — dated October 2026, read October 2026
- Lawn Love — How Much Does Snow Removal Cost in 2026? — dated October 2026, read October 2026
- Taskrabbit — How Much Does Snow Removal Cost? — dated October 2026, read October 2026
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis — regional price parities by state, 2024 — dated February 2026, read September 2026
Put your snow removal prices on your website
Add your town and your business name, and Zarla builds the site from that one line. Your rates go in a pricing section you edit by chat.
Already have a website? Bring it across →Zarla keeps your old page addresses where it can and redirects the ones that change, helping you keep the Google standing you've built.