PackRounds

Dog walking pricing calculator

Updated 28 August 2026

This works out what your average visit has to bring in, starting from what you need to earn rather than from what the walker down the road charges. It also shows the number most pricing misses: what an appointment really costs you in time once driving, parking and the client update are counted.

Nothing is sent anywhere and you do not need to give an email address to use it.

What the business has to earn

Per month, before your personal taxes.

Insurance, software, phone, bookkeeping, marketing, supplies, fuel.
Taxes, repairs, slow weeks, replacement gear, cancellations.
How much you can work

What you can sustain, not your best ever week.

What one visit really takes

This is the part most pricing gets wrong.

Each visit needs to bring in$42.35on average, across 130 visits a month
Your business has to produce
$5,505.00 a month
One visit really costs you
50 minutes, of which 20 are not walking
Gross revenue per working hour
$50.82
A 30 minute visit
$42.35
A 60 minute visit
$67.75
An hour costs you
1.60x a half hour, not 2x

What a tighter route is worth

Halve the driving between clients and the same visit at the same price earns $56.46 an hour instead of $50.82. That is $5.65 more an hour, and the customer pays exactly the same.

These are gross revenue figures, not profit and not take-home pay. They cover the costs and reserves you entered above. Your actual tax, and anything you did not list, comes out of what is left.

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When you are keeping track of more than a few clients, PackRounds is the booking and client record built for exactly this kind of route.

How it works

Add up what the business must pay you, what it costs to run, and what you set aside. That is your monthly target. Divide it by the visits you can genuinely do in a month and you have the average revenue each visit has to produce. Then divide that by the total minutes an appointment consumes, not just the walking minutes, and you have your real hourly rate.

The route density figure is the one worth sitting with. Cutting the drive between clients changes your hourly earnings without changing anybody's price, which is why two walkers charging the same amount can run very different businesses.

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