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Break-even calculator
Your break-even point is how much you need to sell just to cover your costs: no profit, no loss. Type your costs and price to find yours.
Example numbers to start (example number: Made up to show how the calculator works). The starting numbers are a made-up small business, not real costs. Type your own: they stay on this page and aren't sent anywhere.
Costs that stay about the same however much you sell: rent, salaries, insurance, loan payments.
What a customer pays, on average, each time they buy.
What each sale costs you on its own: the food or product, packaging, the card fee.
To turn the month into a day. Leave it blank to skip.
Break-even
1,334 sales a month
That's $20,010 in sales. Each sale leaves $9.00 toward the fixed costs; every sale past 1,334 is profit.
A day
45 sales
Over 30 days open, rounded up.
- Money from sales
- Total costs
- Fixed costs
- Break-even: 1,334 sales
- Loss
- Profit
How it's worked out
Sales to break even = fixed costs ÷ (price − cost of one sale), rounded up. → $12,000 ÷ ($15.00 − $6.00) = 1,334
Learn the idea behind it
A calculator gives you the number. The lesson shows you what it means and what to do about it.
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