Break-Even Calculator for Professional Services
Pre-filled with real professional services industry benchmarks
Professional services firms - law practices, accounting firms, architecture studios, and similar - have a cost structure dominated by labor. Your largest expense is talent, and your break-even depends on utilization rate: the percentage of total available hours that are billed to clients. Most professional services firms need 60 to 70% utilization to break even and 75 to 85% to be profitable. This calculator helps you model your break-even based on average engagement size, overhead, and staffing costs.
Break-Even Calculator
Pre-filled with professional services industry defaults. Edit any field to use your real numbers.
Break-Even Units
56
Break-Even Revenue
$23,352
Contribution Margin
89.9%
Professional Services industry average margin: 90.0% gross margin with 10.0% COGS.