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title: Personal Break-Even Rate|Your Hourly Required Consulting Rate
description: Quickly Determine What Rate You Must Make to Break Even.
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# Your Personal break-Even Rate Calculator

## Ever Wondered If That Job Offer Was Worth It?

### Do You Know Your Break-Even Rate?

All Successful Businesses Know What Their Break-Even Point Is on Sales.  They ask themselves questions like:

- What is my required **sales volume** to break even
- What is my **break-even quantity**
- What is my **break-even point** in dollars

For **example**, you need $6,000 to cover your fixed and variable costs and reach your **break-even point** in sales. You determine the **break-even point** in sales by finding the contribution margin ratio.  Then use the break-even formula:

- **Break-even Point Per Unit = Fixed Costs / (Sales Price Per Unit – Variable Costs Per Unit)**

**If this approach is good enough for business, then you should learn to treat yourself like a business and determine your own break-even point when selling your labor.  **

 

 

 

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