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The size of one bill, ranked: what a single charge comes to in nine businesses
A striping job at $500 to $1,000, a junk haul under $270, a pet waste client at $68 a month, a car wash near $12. Nine businesses ranked by what one customer pays at a time, and what that adds up to over a year.
Some customers in this database pay $12 at a time and some pay $1,000. This page ranks nine businesses by the size of one bill, the single charge a customer sees for a job, a visit or a month of service, largest first. It is the companion to our ranking of how often the same customer pays again, which measured frequency and left size aside.
Read it with three cautions. Three rows are our division of an owner's revenue by a count, one is the entry's own division, and three are industry prices quoted on the owner's entry rather than the owner's own; each note says which. Monthly bills and one-off jobs sit in the same column, so the label shows which is which. And a bill is revenue, not profit, which the margin ledger covers.
Typical jobs bill $500 to $1,000, the trade benchmark quoted on their entry rather than their own invoices. A commercial lot restripes every 18 to 24 months.
About $20,000 a month from 75-plus jobs at You Call We Haul's peak, before he sold it in 2024. Divided by us; with more than 75 jobs the average is lower.
$4.3 million of total income in 2025 from almost 2,000 units, about $2,150 a unit a year. Divided by us, per unit per month, and includes servicing and event work.
About $150 a pool a month for weekly service, an industry price quoted on their entry. The Frisco franchise reports $851,000 a year in revenue.
Roughly $100 a lead, about $50 of it margin. The bill goes to the hauler, not the household, and the hauler keeps 80 to 85 percent of the job.
Over $900,000 from 1,100-plus clients in his first year with the Dallas territory, which his entry works out to about $800 a client a year, or $68 a month for weekly service.
$30 to $40 a month for two bins, the industry pricing quoted on his entry; his own price list is not published. One-time cleans run about $45 to $90, set high to push the subscription.
Their first jobs, sold door to door in 2017 on $150 of gear. Orange Window Cleaning later reached $65,000 to $70,000 a month, but no later per-job price is on record.
Nearly $6 million a year from close to half a million cars across three Florida washes, per UpFlip. Divided by us; memberships are folded into the average.
Left out, and why
Steve Hunsaker did over 200 houses in a two-month season, but his $800,000-plus also includes commercial work for hotels and bars, so a per-house figure cannot be separated out. Kim Hatch's Turner Septic runs 18 jobs a day and reports up to $200,000 in a peak month, but the number of working days is not published. Dan Spracklin's 22,000 customers and $1 million at purchase give about $45 a customer a year, which is an average across a three-to-five-year pumping cycle, not the price of a pump-out. Marcus Gram's vending customers pay per snack, and his figures are per machine, $800 to $1,300 a month, with a spread of under a dollar on a bag of chips. Nathan Lenahan's HVAC service contracts net $150 to $250 a year each, a profit figure rather than a price.
What the order shows
The biggest bill is not the most valuable customer. Spread the Menears' $500 to $1,000 job over an 18 to 24 month restriping cycle and a striping customer is worth roughly $250 to $670 a year, by our arithmetic. McCoy's $68 a month comes to about $800 a year, and a pool customer at $150 a month to about $1,800. The small bill that arrives every week or month adds up to more than the large one that arrives every other year.
Small bills need volume or density. The D'Eris needed close to half a million cars to reach nearly $6 million. Fowler's $30 to $40 subscriptions became a business at more than 1,000 clients, and his entry says the 50 to 70 percent margins arrive only when the stops are close together. Our piece on route density explains why the drive between stops decides how much of a small bill the owner keeps.
The one-off jobs fund themselves on margin. Evans had no repeat cycle to speak of, but ran about 65 percent margins per job, and the striping trade's benchmark on the Menears' entry is about 40 percent for a skilled two-person crew. The startup cost ladder shows how little either trade needs to begin, and the Boring Index scores each one. Every owner here is in the database with sources. This site is one of SideRoad's weekly builds, and new rows will be added as owners publish prices.
Common questions
How much does a pet waste removal customer pay?
Ryan McCoy's first year with the Scoop Soldiers Dallas territory, over $900,000 from 1,100-plus clients, works out to about $800 a client a year, or roughly $68 a month for weekly service.
Which documented business has the largest single bill?
Parking lot striping. The benchmark on Luke and Heather Menear's entry puts typical jobs at $500 to $1,000. Junk removal is next: Sam Evans's You Call We Haul averaged at most about $270 a job at its peak, by our division of his monthly revenue.
Is a large one-off job better than a small monthly bill?
Not over a year, on the documented figures. A striping job of $500 to $1,000 every 18 to 24 months comes to roughly $250 to $670 a year, while a $68 monthly pet waste client comes to about $800 and a $150 monthly pool customer to about $1,800.
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