Valet trash profit calculator
Model your whole operation — or one property bid. The whole-operation view starts as a 10,000-unit medium operation built on industry averages; the bid view prices a single property with your own contract and costs.
Size the operation
Model your operation
Starts as a 10,000-unit medium operation on industry averages. Dollar figures are examples only.
Portfolio
Every billable door across the whole operation.
Industry average is about 300 units.
10,000 units at 300 per property
Service
The industry-standard schedule is five nights.
Porter time on site each night — about 90 minutes is typical.
Money
An example only — use your contract rate.
What one porter earns for one route-night. An example only.
Share of nights needing premium coverage — a call-out, a holiday — paid at double the route rate.
Overhead
Typical teams run one supervisor per 10–20 porters — about 18% of route pay.
Scheduling, hiring, resident and PM communication, plus the books.
Employer taxes plus workers' comp typically add 11–17% on top of wages.
Mileage or truck premium for each route-night.
Liability and auto coverage, software, recruiting, and bad debt.
Operational defaults reflect industry averages — about 300 units per typical property, 5 service nights a week, and about 90 minutes of porter time per property each night. Prices, route pay, and overhead are examples only — use your own.
Your margin $635,017 per year. $1,320,000 yearly revenue across 34 properties.
Your estimate
Your margin
$52,918 each month
The work each week
- Route-nights
- 170/ week
- Porter-hours
- 255/ week
- Porter-hours
- 1,105/ month
- Estimated crew
- 32porters
at typical part-time shifts (~8 hrs/porter/week)
Monthly revenue
$110,000$1,320,000 a year across 10,000 units
Monthly costs
- Porter route pay
- $33,813
- Night supervision
- $6,086
- Payroll taxes & comp
- $5,586
- Office & bookkeeping
- $4,800
- Vehicles
- $2,947
- Insurance & everything else
- $3,850
- Total
- $57,082
Break-even price: $5.71 per door.
One property's slice
A typical property's share of the totals, split across 34 properties.
- Revenue
- $3,235/ mo
- Porter cost
- $995/ mo
- Contribution
- $1,556/ mo
Understand the numbers before you bid
A good bid answers four questions: What will the property pay? What will service cost? How many doors cover those costs? What changes if the price or schedule changes? This calculator keeps those answers together without hiding the math.
Re-run the model for every property. A portfolio average can hide a slow elevator, scattered buildings, an oversized route, or an occupancy clause. The companion valet trash pricing guide explains the difference between the resident fee, operator bid, and cost to deliver. Once a contract is live, Doorstep One's proof-of-service workflow turns each night's work into a record your team and property manager can actually use.
Calculator questions
It shows yearly contract revenue, porter costs, other costs, how much is left after those costs, cost per door, doors needed to cover costs, and how price or schedule changes affect the result. It does not include taxes, financing, owner pay, or costs you do not enter.
Using industry averages — about 300 units per property, five service nights a week, and about 90 minutes of porter time per property each night — 10,000 units works out to roughly 34 properties, 170 route-nights a week, and about 255 porter-hours of work each week. The whole-operation mode starts from exactly those defaults; prices, route pay, and overhead are yours to enter.
It is your porter costs plus other monthly costs, divided by billable doors. It tells you how much each door must bring in every month to cover the costs you entered. It is not a recommended price.
Include the porter’s wage or route pay, employer taxes, and other recurring labor costs. Put insurance, recruiting, supervision, gear, and similar costs under other monthly costs if they are not already included.
No. It is an arithmetic scenario based entirely on the inputs. Weather, turnover, occupancy, route duration, contract terms, insurance, taxes, missed service, and other costs can materially change actual results.
See every route’s costs and service in one place
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