Microgreens profit per tray calculator
Do my microgreens make money, and what should I charge per ounce?
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Profit per tray
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- Takings per tray
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- Cost per tray
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- Cost per unit sold
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- Units sold per tray
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- Your time, at your wage
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Enter the yield in the unit you price by: ounces at a price per ounce, grams at a price per gram, or clamshells at a price per clamshell.
The whole tray's cost falls on the part you sell. Leave the share empty if you sell all of it.
Rules for selling fresh produce, such as labeling, washing and keeping it cold, depend on where you sell. This calculator works out money only.
Price per unit for your margin
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- Cost per unit sold
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- Cost per tray
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- Takings per tray
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- Profit per tray
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- Units sold per tray
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- Your time, at your wage
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Enter the yield in the unit you price by: ounces at a price per ounce, grams at a price per gram, or clamshells at a price per clamshell.
The price is rounded up to the cent, so you never keep less than the margin you asked for.
The whole tray's cost falls on the part you sell. Leave the share empty if you sell all of it.
Trays a week
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- Takings per tray
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- Takings a week
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- Units to sell a week
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- Cost a week
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- Profit a week (negative is a loss)
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Enter the yield in the unit you price by: ounces at a price per ounce, grams at a price per gram, or clamshells at a price per clamshell.
Trays are whole, so a week's takings can come out a little above your goal.
The whole tray's cost falls on the part you sell. Leave the share empty if you sell all of it.
Enter your numbers to see the result.
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How this is worked out
A tray's cost is the seed, the soil or mat, the packaging and any other cost for one tray, plus your minutes times your hourly wage divided by 60 if you enter both. The units you sell are the tray's yield times the share you sell (all of it if you leave that empty). Profit per tray is the price times the units sold, rounded to the cent, less the tray's cost, rounded to the cent. The cost per unit sold is the tray's cost divided by the units sold. The price for a margin is that cost per unit divided by one minus the margin, rounded up to the cent so you never keep less than you asked for. Trays a week are your weekly sales goal divided by what one tray takes in, rounded up to a whole tray.
A worked example
Example numbers only; use your own. A tray that yields 10 ounces, of which you sell 90 percent, sells 9 ounces. At 3.00 an ounce it takes in 27.00. Its costs are 2.50 of seed, 1.20 of soil, 2.00 of clamshells, 0.80 of other costs and 20 minutes at 15.00 an hour (5.00): 11.50 in all. So the tray makes 15.50, and each ounce sold costs 1.28. For a 60 percent margin, the price is 3.20 an ounce. To take in 500 a week at 3.00 an ounce you need 19 trays.
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