Bakery Break-Even Calculator
Find out exactly how many orders you need to take each month to cover your fixed costs — and when every additional order starts generating real profit.
Break-Even Calculator
Three Numbers. Total Clarity On Your Business.
Fixed Costs
What you pay every month whether you take 0 orders or 100. Rent, commercial insurance, subscriptions, equipment payments, and a base electricity amount.
Variable Cost Per Order
What each order actually costs you: ingredients, packaging, and your labor at your hourly rate. This goes up as you take more orders.
Average Selling Price
What a typical order earns you. Use an average across your order types — cakes, cookies, classes — to get a realistic picture of your business.
Home Baker With $300 In Monthly Fixed Costs
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Know Your Real Minimum
Once you know your break-even number, you know the minimum orders you must book each month — before you can claim a single dollar of profit.
See Where Profit Starts
The profit table shows you exactly what happens at 10, 15, 20, and 30 orders. You can see the moment your business stops surviving and starts thriving.
Plan Your Growth
Want to add a commercial insurance policy? A new equipment payment? Run the numbers before you commit — and see how many extra orders you’d need to cover the new cost.
Set Realistic Goals
If your break-even is 12 orders but you can only physically do 10 in a month, your pricing or cost structure needs to change. Better to know that now than after a year of working at a loss.
Made By A Real Baker
Marcia Dexter built this because too many bakers are taking orders, staying busy, and wondering why there’s nothing left at the end of the month. This calculator shows you why.
Completely Free
No login, no email, no credit card. Enter your three numbers and get your break-even point and a profit projection table instantly.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a break-even point?
Your break-even point is the number of orders (or amount of revenue) you need to cover all your costs — fixed and variable — with zero profit left over. Every order beyond break-even generates profit.
What counts as a fixed cost?
Any cost that exists whether you take 0 or 100 orders: rent on a commercial kitchen, annual insurance divided by 12, software subscriptions, a standing equipment loan payment, and a base electricity amount if you bake from home.
What counts as a variable cost per order?
Costs that go up as you take more orders: ingredients, packaging for that order, and your labor (hours × hourly rate). If you use a commercial kitchen by the hour, that time also counts here.
What if I take different types of orders with different prices?
Use a weighted average selling price — what a typical order earns you across your order mix. If you do mostly cookies at $60 and some cakes at $150, estimate based on your actual split rather than just using the higher number.
My break-even number seems impossibly high. What does that mean?
It means your pricing, fixed costs, or both need adjusting. The most common fix is raising your selling price per order — even a $10–$15 increase per order can significantly lower your break-even point.
What is contribution per order?
Contribution is the difference between your selling price and your variable cost per order. It’s the amount each order “contributes” toward covering your fixed costs and then generating profit. A higher contribution means you reach break-even faster.
Track Orders And Profit Together With BatterSuite
Knowing your break-even is the foundation. BatterSuite tracks every order so you can see in real time whether you’ve passed your break-even point each month — and how much profit is actually coming in.
Know Your Number. Build From There.
Use the calculator to find your break-even, then grab the Sweet Start Pricing Kit to build a full pricing and profit system for your home bakery.