Class profit calculator
Enter what the hall costs for the night, what you pay the teachers, what a student really pays on average, and how many usually come. The calculator gives you the number of people the class needs to break even, and the profit or loss for a night, a month and a year. Nothing you type leaves this page.
What the numbers mean
- Costs a night are the same whether four people come or forty. That is why attendance decides everything.
- Needed to break even is costs divided by the average paid, rounded up to a whole person. One or two heads either side of this line is the difference between a class that pays and one that doesn't.
- Profit a night is what is left after the hall and the teachers. It is not your whole business, but it is the number that says which class to fix.
Try it with one teacher instead of two, or with the hall $20 cheaper, and watch the break-even move. Then try two more people. Those are your three levers. The longer version, with a worked example from a real month, is in how to work out the profit on each class.
Stop doing this sum by hand
ClassMetrix works it out from what the door actually recorded, every class, every month, and shows which regulars are drifting away. The demo is a made-up studio with six months of numbers.
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Questions
What should I enter as the average paid per head?
What people really pay once passes, discounts and free trials are mixed in, not the door price. If you don't know, start with your door price minus 10 per cent: a $23 class where regulars use $20 passes usually averages about $21.
Does the calculator include my own time?
Only if you put a figure in for it. Most owners teach for nothing at first; add yourself as a teacher at the rate you'd pay someone else to see the real picture.
Is my data stored?
No. The sums run in your browser and nothing you type leaves the page.