Ski and Snowboard Tune Shop Profit Calculator — Tune Price, Break-Even, Bench Hours

Which tunes make your shop money, and how many does the winter have to sell?

Enter your tune prices, bench minutes, materials, technician pay, grinder and rent. You get profit per tune and per bench hour, the price each tune needs for your target margin, what a season wax pass really earns, the break-even volume, and how the season moves with demand against the bench hours you actually have.

Calculated in this browser tab. No account, no upload. The example is made up. A planning estimate, not a contract or an estimate of record.

1. What you sell

Hot waxes sold this season

Hot wax price ($)

Wax bench minutes

Wax materials ($ each)

Standard tunes sold

Standard tune price ($)

Standard tune bench minutes

Standard tune materials ($)

Full tunes sold

Full tune price ($)

Full tune bench minutes

Full tune materials ($)

2. Labor and the bench

Technician pay ($ per hour)

Payroll tax and extras (%)

Bench hours available per week

Season length (months)

3. Grinder, rent and fixed costs

Grinder / tuning machine cost ($)

Seasons you will use it

Rent and utilities ($ per month)

Other fixed cost this season ($)

4. Season passes and margin

Season-pass holders

Pass price ($)

Wax visits per pass holder

Target margin on each tune (%)

Enter your numbers or load the example, then click Work out the season.

Result

Each service

Service	Price	Cost	Profit	Margin	Per bench hour	Price for target

The season at different volumes

Volume	Tunes	Revenue	Profit	Bench hours	Bench used

The arithmetic, and what it leaves out

Each tune costs its bench minutes at the technician's pay plus payroll extras, plus its materials. Profit is price less that cost.
Profit per bench hour is price less materials, divided by the hours on the bench, before the technician's pay, so it compares services on the one thing a winter runs out of.
Fixed cost is the grinder spread over the seasons you will keep it, rent for the months you are open, and the other fixed cost you type. The season result is every service's profit, plus the pass line, less fixed cost.
A season pass is revenue once, against the wax visits its holders use. Its break-even is the pass price divided by what one wax costs you.
Not modelled: your own pay as owner, retail and rentals, sales tax, card fees, insurance, hiring a second technician, and income tax.

Common questions

How much should a ski shop charge for a tune?

Add the bench minutes at your technician's loaded hourly cost to the wax, edge stones and belts the tune uses, then divide by one minus the margin you want. A full tune with base grind and edge work takes about an hour on the bench, so a price that looks fair next to the competition can still lose money if your technician is slow or the grinder is idle. Type your own minutes and costs and read the price off.

Is a season wax pass worth selling?

A pass is cash up front for work you do later, so price it against the number of visits a holder will really use. The result shows what each visit earns and the number of visits at which the pass starts losing money. Count honestly: a pass holder who waxes every weekend costs far more than the one who forgets.

How many tunes does a ski shop need to break even?

Fixed costs for the season (the grinder spread over the seasons you will keep it, rent and utilities for the months you are open, and anything else) divided by what each tune contributes after labor and materials. The calculator prints the break-even count at your mix and a table of the season at 50 to 150 percent of the volume you expect.

Why does the bench-hour figure matter?

A shop has a fixed number of bench hours in a winter. A service that earns more for each hour on the bench is the one to push when the bench is full, and the one to raise first when it is not. The result ranks your services by that figure.

What does this leave out?

Your own pay as owner, retail sales of skis, boots and accessories, rental fleets, sales tax, card fees, shop insurance, a second technician's hiring cost and your income tax. It is a planning aid, not an estimate of record.

Is my data uploaded?

No. Everything runs in your browser tab and nothing is sent anywhere. There are no accounts. The share link keeps your numbers in the link itself, which you choose whether to send.