Honey price per jar calculator
What should I charge for a jar of honey, and what does a hive make me?
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Price per jar
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- The honey alone, at your price
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- Honey in the jar, in your price's unit
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- The jar price per pound or kilogram
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- Cost per jar
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- Profit per jar (negative is a loss)
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Enter the net weight your label states, in its own unit. The calculator converts it to the unit of your price, so no weight per jar size has to be guessed.
Jar prices are rounded up to the cent, so the jar never sells for less than your price per pound or kilogram.
Rules for selling honey, such as what the label must show and whether you must register, depend on where you sell. This calculator works out money only.
Retail price per jar
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- Wholesale price per jar
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- Retail less wholesale, per jar
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- Wholesale as a share of retail
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- Honey in the jar, in your price's unit
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- Cost per jar
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- Profit per jar at retail
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- Profit per jar at wholesale (negative is a loss)
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Enter the net weight your label states, in its own unit. The calculator converts it to the unit of your price, so no weight per jar size has to be guessed.
Jar prices are rounded up to the cent, so the jar never sells for less than your price per pound or kilogram.
Profit per hive (negative is a loss)
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- Takings per hive
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- Honey from all your hives
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- Takings for the season
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- Costs for the season
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- Profit for the season (negative is a loss)
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Enter the honey per hive in the unit you price by: pounds at a price per pound, kilograms at a price per kilogram.
Rules for selling honey, such as what the label must show and whether you must register, depend on where you sell. This calculator works out money only.
Enter your numbers to see the result.
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How this is worked out
The honey in a jar is its label's net weight in the unit of your price: 16 ounces to the pound, 1,000 grams to the kilogram, and exactly 0.45359237 kilograms to the pound. The jar price is your price per pound or kilogram times that weight, plus the jar, lid and label, rounded up to the cent. What that comes to per pound or kilogram is the jar price divided by the weight. With a wholesale price, the wholesale jar is worked out the same way, and its share of retail is the wholesale jar price divided by the retail jar price. For a hive, the honey from all your hives times your price, less each hive's costs and any other costs for the season, is the season's profit; divided by the hives, it is the profit per hive.
A worked example
Example numbers only; use your own. A 12 ounce jar holds 0.75 lb. At 12.00 a pound that is 9.00 of honey, and with 0.85 for the jar, lid and label the jar is 9.85, which is 13.13 a pound. If the honey costs you 4.50 a pound, the jar costs 4.23 and makes 5.62. A 16 ounce jar at 12.00 retail and 8.00 wholesale is 12.85 and 8.85 a jar. Ten hives giving 40 lb each at 10.00 a pound bring in 4,000.00; with 150.00 a hive and 600.00 of other costs, each hive makes 190.00.
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