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Break-even calculator
Plan monthly and daily sales from named expenses, variable costs and a profit target.
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Use one currency throughout. Annual expenses are divided by 12. Variable costs are percentages of revenue; their total must stay below 100%. Estimates assume stable costs and sales mix, before tax. Include every expense; this is not a profit guarantee. Order counts round up.
SBA · Break-even pointOpenStax · 3.2Worked example
An example you can try or adapt to your own values.
- Monthly fixed costs
- 18,000.00
- Materials (% of sales)
- 40
- Other variable costs (% of sales)
- 0
- Working days per month
- 30
- Monthly target profit
- 9,000.00
Result
Monthly break-even sales: 30,000.00 Daily break-even sales: 1,000.00 Monthly sales for target profit: 45,000.00 Daily sales for target profit: 1,500.00