No idea, always done it myself, it's not rocket science, just messy and hard work. I'd imagine, for a large one, it'd take about 2 or 3 hours by the time the mess is all cleared up, so if I was charging someone else for doing it, that'd be about £60, plus travel and possibly a charge for dumping the cuttings. You might find the person wants to charge out at half a day's labour, and I imagine the labour rates where you are would be cheaper than what I charged in London, although I've never been as expensive as a lot of people down here! It is an unpleasant job, though, so paying someone else probably means it won't be cheap

Don't you just throw a match on it?

Not in London you don't, Bulbaholic!

We always use to burn ours. But if you can't do that in your area, I guess it would just depend on the size of the grass. Save yourself some money. We have used a weed eater on one we had.

If tackling yourself, wear stout gloves and long sleeves, you can easily get cuts from the leaves.

I just used shears, loppers and protective clothing, like you suggest, Dawnsaunt, plus goggles or glasses

Tough though, arent they. I cut ours down with shears and set fire to it and it came back strong. Mice like to nest in them so I wont be burning mine again.

I had a hedgehog residing in the bottom of mine years ago, so I'm not in favour of burning them either

Sounds like they're good for the wildlife then Bamboo, like you, I wont be burning mine again.

i do mine myself if not i send my daughter in to trim it up.
Shears , Loppers should do the trick