Tool

Break-Even Calculator

Your hourly rate isn’t your paycheck. It’s your paycheck plus overhead plus profit. Fill in your real numbers below to see your actual break-even, profit margin, and the minimum price a job needs to hit your profit goal.

1. Fixed Cost Tracker

Your monthly overhead: the stuff that costs money whether you work or not.

Truck payment + gas

Insurance

Tools & equipment

Other overhead

Total monthly fixed costs: $1,300.00

2. Revenue & Variable Costs

What a typical job brings in, and what it costs you to actually do it.

Average revenue per job

Variable cost per job (materials, etc.)

Jobs per month

Contribution margin per job: $280.00

3. Break-Even

You break even at 4.6 jobs/month, or $1,857.14 in revenue.

4. Profit Margin

At 20 jobs/month: revenue $8,000.00, net profit $4,300.00, margin 53.8%.

5. Pricing Target

Tell it the profit you want this month, and it works backward to the minimum price per job at your current jobs-per-month volume.

Desired monthly profit

Minimum price per job: $435.00