I just had 14 trees removed in Southern NH a few weeks ago with Souhegan Valley Tree Service. It was 5K total, calculated out to ~$300-350 per tree for mostly medium to large Ashe trees that were dying from Ashe Beetles. They used a huge crane and had a team of 5-6 guys and it took most of the day.

A different quote we received was for $6500, but that was a day rate and they would "take as many trees down in the day as they could" and that I would have to "pay an overtime rate of $500 per hour for anything over 6 hours" if I wanted them to "pop a couple more trees out if they had time."

The first company warned me about companies that do day rates because if something breaks or delays them, then you would have to pay for them to come back out for an additional day to complete the job.