Grounds ToolkitRoutes and Capacity
How Much Added Weekly Capacity Does One More Crew Member Actually Provide?
Enter current crew size, workdays, hours per day, and average crew-hours per property. This shows the added weekly capacity a new hire provides, in crew-hours and properties.
How this is calculated
One person's weekly hours is workdays times hours per day. Current total crew-hours is that figure times current crew size, new total crew-hours uses crew size plus one. The difference is the added weekly capacity, converted into additional properties using your own average crew-hours per property, rounded down to whole properties. This does not assume a new hire speeds up any single visit, see Mowing Time and Crew-Hours for why crew size affects labor cost and capacity used, not visit speed, in this toolkit's model.
Worked example
A 3-person crew works 5 days a week, 8 hours a day, 40 hours per person. Adding one more person adds 40 crew-hours, from 120 to 160 total. At 4 crew-hours per property, that supports 10 more properties a week (40 ÷ 4).
Common mistakes
- Assuming a new hire makes existing visits finish faster, this calculator does not model that.
- Using a rough guess for crew-hours per property instead of an actual average from past jobs.
- Treating added capacity as automatically profitable, check the revenue side separately.
Frequently asked questions
Does adding a crew member make each property faster to service?
No, this calculator does not assume that. It adds the new hire's own weekly hours to total crew capacity, then converts that into additional properties using your own average crew-hours per property, it does not claim existing visits get quicker.
How is average crew-hours per property determined?
You enter it directly, based on your own job history or an estimate from Job Labor Cost or Mowing Time and Crew-Hours. This calculator does not invent that number.
What is the difference between this and What Will It Take to Support Another Employee?
This calculator answers what added capacity a hire provides. What Will It Take to Support Another Employee answers what revenue that hire would need to cover its cost. Use both together for the full hiring decision.
Why is the added capacity rounded down to whole properties?
A property either fits in the added hours or it does not, a fractional property is not a usable answer for scheduling.