Break-Even Calculator
Find out how many jobs you need to cover your fixed costs each month.
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How many jobs do you need each month?
Break-even analysis tells you the minimum number of jobs you need to cover your fixed costs before you make a cent of profit — and, just as usefully, how many jobs you need to hit a real profit target.
How to use it
- Enter your monthly fixed expenses — rent, insurance, loan repayments, salaries, subscriptions.
- Enter your average job revenue and the variable cost (materials, subcontractors) for a typical job.
- Add a target monthly profit to see how many jobs that actually requires.
The formula
Worked example
Fixed expenses $8,000/month, average job revenue $2,500, average variable cost $1,200. Contribution per job is $1,300, so you need 6.16 jobs a month to break even — about 1.4 a week.
Frequently Asked Questions
What counts as a fixed expense?
Costs that stay roughly the same whether you do one job or twenty that month — rent, insurance, loan repayments, salaried staff, software subscriptions.
What's a variable job cost?
Costs that scale with each job — materials, subcontractors, permits. Your job pricing calculator breaks these down per job.
Why does the target profit number matter?
Break-even only tells you the minimum to survive. Most business owners actually want to know how many jobs it takes to hit a real profit goal — that's what the target profit field shows.