Farmers Market Booth Calculator · guide
Short answer: the booth fee is the smallest reason a market loses money. Hours and drive cost usually decide it. The calculator runs your own markets side by side.
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Product cost 35 percent of sales, 6 percent waste, 70 percent of sales by card at 2.6 percent, 70 cents a mile, and a $25.00 target wage.
The festival has the biggest sales and the worst hourly rate. Taken together the three clear $897.11 for 31 hours, $28.94 an hour; without the festival it would be $45.08 an hour.
Break-even is the fixed costs (booth fee plus drive) divided by the share of each sale you keep after product cost, waste, card fees and the market's percentage: $115.42 at the Saturday market and $631.62 at the festival. To earn $25.00 an hour the festival needs $1,479.44 in sales, well over the $1,100.00 it makes. A sales dip of 20 percent leaves it at $117.18 for the day.
On the default numbers a Saturday market with $900 in sales and a $45 booth fee clears $448.62 over 9 hours, $49.85 an hour, while a big festival with $1,100 in sales, a $200 fee plus 10 percent of sales and a long drive clears $220.98 over 16 hours, $13.81 an hour. Enter your own numbers; the fee is only one of the costs.
Divide the booth fee plus drive cost by the share of each sale you keep after product cost, waste, card fees and any percentage the market takes. On the defaults that is $115.42 at the Saturday market and $631.62 at the festival.
Add your target wage times the hours to the fixed costs and divide by the same share. At $25.00 an hour the festival needs about $1,479.44 in sales, against the $1,100 it makes.
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