Business Break-Even & Profit Calculator
Estimate the revenue your business may need to cover costs, reach break-even, and achieve a target profit.
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Where Do I Find These Numbers?(show)
- Average sales price: Total monthly sales divided by the number of customers, orders, jobs, or units in that month.
- Variable cost per unit: Costs that generally increase with each additional sale, such as materials, commissions, shipping, subcontractor costs, or payment processing fees.
- Monthly fixed operating costs: Costs that generally do not change directly with sales volume, such as rent, core salaries, insurance, and software. These often appear as monthly operating expenses in your accounting software profit and loss report.
- Current monthly revenue: Total sales for a typical recent month from your profit and loss report.
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Educational use only. This calculator provides a simplified, general estimate based solely on the information entered. It is not tax, legal, accounting, financial, or investment advice, is not IRS-approved, and does not guarantee any tax savings, profit, or the avoidance of any tax, interest, or penalty.
This calculator uses simplified break-even assumptions. Actual profitability may differ because pricing, sales mix, taxes, seasonality, inventory, financing, depreciation, owner compensation, collections, and unexpected expenses can materially affect results.
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