True hourly earnings guide
See which working time and cost categories belong in the session model.
Free calculator example · US + Canada
Portrait session pricing worked examples
Reproduce invented US and Canadian portrait-session inputs through the free session-pricing calculation.
Business question
What revenue and base session price do these invented sessions require after entered hours, costs, overhead, fees, and add-on revenue?
The existing calculator derives owner earnings, hourly earnings, required revenue, and a base-price requirement independently for the linked USD and separate CAD scenarios.
Inputs
Start with allowlisted invented values.
- The US scenario carries forward the calculated overhead allocation from the cost-baseline example.
- The Canadian scenario uses CAD-labeled inputs independently; no USD-to-CAD conversion occurs.
US · Kit-aligned
Kit session-pricing baseline
An invented session-pricing baseline aligned with the Kit workbook QA render.
- Currency label
- USD
- Current Revenue
- 750 USD
- Total Hours
- 8
- Direct Costs
- 80 USD
- Allocated Overhead
- 300 USD
- Target Hourly Earnings
- 60 USD
- Processing Rate
- 2.9%
- Fixed Processing Fee
- 0.3 USD
- Transaction Count
- 1
- Expected Addon Revenue
- 100 USD
Canada · Free calculator
Canadian product-led portrait session
An invented product-led portrait session with two collected transactions.
- Currency label
- CAD
- Current Revenue
- 1,250 CAD
- Total Hours
- 12
- Direct Costs
- 330 CAD
- Allocated Overhead
- 140 CAD
- Target Hourly Earnings
- 70 CAD
- Processing Rate
- 2.9%
- Fixed Processing Fee
- 0.3 CAD
- Transaction Count
- 2
- Expected Addon Revenue
- 450 CAD
Process
Reproduce the calculation in order.
- 01
Subtract direct costs, allocated overhead, and modeled payment fees from current collected revenue.
- 02
Divide modeled owner earnings by all entered business hours to calculate true hourly earnings.
- 03
Solve for required total revenue from the entered hourly target, then subtract expected add-on revenue for the required base price.
Results
Outputs derived from the trusted calculation boundary.
These tables are generated at build time from the allowlisted catalog and existing calculator functions. The editorial entry does not copy the result values.
Calculated from the inputs above
Kit session-pricing baseline
| Result | Calculated value |
|---|---|
| Allocated overhead | 300 USD |
| Modeled processing fees | 22.05 USD |
| Modeled owner earnings | 347.95 USD |
| True hourly earnings | 43.49 USD |
| Required total revenue | 885.99 USD |
| Required base price | 785.99 USD |
| Current revenue minus required revenue | -135.99 USD |
| Break-even revenue | 391.66 USD |
Calculated from the inputs above
Canadian product-led portrait session
| Result | Calculated value |
|---|---|
| Allocated overhead | 140 CAD |
| Modeled processing fees | 36.85 CAD |
| Modeled owner earnings | 743.15 CAD |
| True hourly earnings | 61.93 CAD |
| Required total revenue | 1,349.74 CAD |
| Required base price | 899.74 CAD |
| Current revenue minus required revenue | -99.74 CAD |
| Break-even revenue | 484.65 CAD |
Interpretation
What the outputs do—and do not—show.
- A positive current result does not establish that the session meets the entered owner-earnings target; compare it with required revenue.
- The two currency labels identify separate scenarios and should never be read as an exchange-rate comparison.
Limitations
Boundaries to keep visible.
- The calculation does not estimate demand, recommend a package price, or decide tax and legal treatment.
- Expected add-on revenue is an assumption and should be replaced when a studio lacks evidence for it.