When is it cheaper to rent a dumpster by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $228 day rate would be $684, but the weekly rate caps it at $550.

When is it cheaper to rent a dumpster on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,000 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

Break-even duration

Equipment rents on three rates — a day rate, a week rate and a 28-day rate — and the cheapest one changes as the job runs long. This finds the two days where it changes, on a real listing’s real published rates.

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Robert McDonald · Site Support - Dumpsters

Day: $228
Week: $550
28 days: $2,000

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $684. On the week rate it is $550.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $5,244. On the 28-day rate it is $2,000.

The working

Whole weeks bill at the week rate; the leftover days bill at the day rate but never add up to more than one extra week; and a whole 28-day cycle never costs more than the 28-day rate. That is the rule, applied one day at a time.

Rental price by duration for dumpster, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$228	$228	—	day
2	$456	$456	—	day
3	$684	$550	you save $134	week
4	$912	$550	you save $362	week
5	$1,140	$550	you save $590	week
6	$1,368	$550	you save $818	week
7	$1,596	$550	you save $1,046	week
8	$1,824	$778	you save $1,046	week
9	$2,052	$1,006	you save $1,046	week
10	$2,280	$1,100	you save $1,180	week
11	$2,508	$1,100	you save $1,408	week
12	$2,736	$1,100	you save $1,636	week
13	$2,964	$1,100	you save $1,864	week
14	$3,192	$1,100	you save $2,092	week
15	$3,420	$1,328	you save $2,092	week
16	$3,648	$1,556	you save $2,092	week
17	$3,876	$1,650	you save $2,226	week
18	$4,104	$1,650	you save $2,454	week
19	$4,332	$1,650	you save $2,682	week
20	$4,560	$1,650	you save $2,910	week
21	$4,788	$1,650	you save $3,138	week
22	$5,016	$1,878	you save $3,138	week
23	$5,244	$2,000	you save $3,244	28-day
24	$5,472	$2,000	you save $3,472	28-day
25	$5,700	$2,000	you save $3,700	28-day
26	$5,928	$2,000	you save $3,928	28-day
27	$6,156	$2,000	you save $4,156	28-day
28	$6,384	$2,000	you save $4,384	28-day
29	$6,612	$2,228	you save $4,384	day
30	$6,840	$2,456	you save $4,384	day
31	$7,068	$2,550	you save $4,518	week
32	$7,296	$2,550	you save $4,746	week
33	$7,524	$2,550	you save $4,974	week
34	$7,752	$2,550	you save $5,202	week
35	$7,980	$2,550	you save $5,430	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Our pricing service couldn’t be reached just now, so there’s no checkout figure to show. The rate table above is unaffected — it’s the operator’s published card.

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The numbers come from one operator’s published rates, so the tool needs to know whose.

Where these numbers come from

The rates are the operator’s own, read live from their listing. The arithmetic is the same best-price billing engine that produces 2Quip invoices — not a second copy written for this page — run on the industry-standard terms: a 28-day cycle, whole weeks at the week rate, leftover days at the day rate capped at one more week.

An operator can agree different terms on an individual rental, and a long rental bills per 28-day cycle rather than in one lump. So treat this as what the rate card says, and the operator’s quote as what you are agreeing to.