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Break-Even Calculator

How much do you have to sell before you profit?

This break-even calculator shows how many units, projects or billable hours you need to sell to cover your fixed costs, and how many to reach the profit you want. Works in dollars, pounds or euros.

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Your numbers

Currency

Fixed costs per period

Selling price per unit

Variable cost per unit

Profit you want (optional)

You break even at

Units to break even

Revenue at break-even

$3,350.00

Contribution per unit

$30.00

Units for your profit target

100

Contribution margin

60.0%

Estimate only. Assumes one price and one variable cost per unit, and that fixed costs stay flat across the range you sell.

Key takeaways

Break-even units = fixed costs ÷ (price − variable cost per unit), rounded up.
Example: $2,000 fixed costs, a $50 price and $20 variable cost leave $30 per unit, so you break even at 67 units, or $3,350 of revenue.
To earn $1,000 on top, you need ($2,000 + $1,000) ÷ $30 = 100 units.
Raising the price by $5 moves break-even from 67 to 58 units, which is usually easier than cutting fixed costs.

Hustlay dashboard with income, expenses and profit per project — Hustlay shows each project's income, costs and profit, so you see how far past break-even each one is.

Break-even is one number for one project. Hustlay tracks it for every hustle, with shared costs split fairly.

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How it works

From fixed costs to break-even units

Contribution per unit = selling price − variable cost per unit. It is what each sale contributes toward the fixed costs.
Break-even units = fixed costs ÷ contribution per unit, rounded up to a whole unit.
Break-even revenue = break-even units × selling price.
Units for a profit target = (fixed costs + target profit) ÷ contribution per unit.

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