Farmer's real hourly wage calculator
What did I really earn per hour, counting every hour I worked?
Showing for United States
What you earned per hour
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- Profit
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- Hours counted
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- Those hours at your comparison wage
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- Short of your comparison wage by
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- Above your comparison wage by
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- Your wage as a percentage of the comparison
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Count every hour the farm took: markets, deliveries, bookkeeping and marketing as well as field work.
A negative figure means the period lost money: you paid to work.
This is arithmetic on your own figures. It is not tax or financial advice.
What you earned per hour
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- Profit
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- Hours counted
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- Those hours at your comparison wage
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- Short of your comparison wage by
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- Above your comparison wage by
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- Your wage as a percentage of the comparison
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Count every hour the farm took: markets, deliveries, bookkeeping and marketing as well as field work.
A negative figure means the period lost money: you paid to work.
This is arithmetic on your own figures. It is not tax or financial advice.
Sales needed
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- Profit needed
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- Hours counted
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Count every hour the farm took: markets, deliveries, bookkeeping and marketing as well as field work.
The sales figure is rounded up to the cent so it never falls short of the wage you asked for.
This is arithmetic on your own figures. It is not tax or financial advice.
Enter your numbers to see the result.
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- Press + Add, then Add custom connector.
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- In Settings, turn on Developer mode. OpenAI moves this switch from time to time; it is usually with the settings for apps and connectors.
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"Use TallyTill: What did I really earn per hour, counting every hour I worked?"
What you will see
- The calculator opens in the chat with the numbers you gave already filled in. Change any number and the answer updates.
- If a number is missing, the box is highlighted, or the AI asks you for it in plain words.
- The answer links back to this page, so you can check the working.
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How this is worked out
Your hours are your usual hours a week times the weeks you worked, plus any other hours and any unpaid hours from family or volunteers. Profit is your sales less your costs, not counting your own time; wages you paid others are costs. Your hourly wage is the profit divided by the hours, rounded to the cent. If you give a wage to compare with, the calculator shows what those hours would earn at that wage, the gap between that and your profit, and your wage as a percentage of it. To find the sales you need, the wage you want is multiplied by your hours and rounded up to the cent, then your costs are added.
A worked example
Example numbers only; use your own. Sales of 60,000 and costs of 38,000 leave 22,000. Working 55 hours a week for 30 weeks, plus 400 other hours, is 2,050 hours, so you earned 22,000 ÷ 2,050 = 10.73 an hour. At a comparison wage of 15.00, the same hours would earn 30,750.00, so the gap is 8,750.00. To earn 20.00 an hour over those hours you would need 41,000.00 of profit, so sales of 79,000.00.
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