Free craft fair and market booth profit calculator. Enter booth fee, travel miles, rental costs, average sale price, COGS percentage, expected units, and hours worked; outputs gross profit, effective hourly wage, and break-even units before you book the table.
Use before committing to a craft fair or market booth fee, and again the week before to sanity-check your expected sales against the break-even number.
This is the only calculator in this batch measuring an event's overall economics rather than a single item's price — closer to the Wargame Match Time Predictor's session-level framing than to the per-unit sticker or embroidery tools.
Total expenses = booth fee + (round-trip miles × mileage rate) + table/tent rental.
Revenue = average sale price × expected units sold. COGS is subtracted as a percentage of that revenue, then total expenses are subtracted to get gross profit.
Effective hourly wage = gross profit ÷ total hours worked, including setup/teardown. Break-even units = total expenses ÷ profit margin per unit.
Compare the calculated effective hourly wage (gross profit ÷ total hours worked) against local minimum wage or your day-job rate. If it comes in below that, the show may not be worth the setup and standing time.
Break-even units = total expenses ÷ (average sale price × (1 − COGS%)). If that number looks unrealistic against the show's expected foot traffic, it may not be worth the booth fee.
Travel cost (already factored in here via miles × mileage rate), and setup/teardown hours — folding those into "total hours worked" rather than just selling hours gives a much more honest hourly wage.
Invoer
$75 booth fee, 40 miles round trip at $0.67/mi, $20 rental, $22 average sale, 40% COGS, 40 units sold, 10 hours worked.
Uitvoer
Gross profit $406.20 → effective wage $40.62/hr; break-even at 10 units.
Total expenses = $75 + $26.80 travel + $20 rental = $121.80. Revenue of $880 minus $352 COGS minus expenses leaves $406.20 gross profit, or $40.62 per hour across the 10-hour day. Only about 10 units need to sell before the booth pays for itself.
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