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Calculate cost per unit, profit margin and retail price and other pricing & profit calculations.
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How Cost Per Unit Is Calculated (And Why It Drops as Production Scales Up)
Cost per unit blends fixed costs (spread across however many units are made) with variable costs (the same amount added per unit regardless of volume) — producing more units spreads the fixed-cost portion thinner, which is exactly why cost per unit falls as production volume increases, even though total cost still rises.
Read guideHow to Find Both Margin and Markup When You Already Know Cost and Selling Price
When both cost and selling price are already known — rather than being calculated from a target percentage — margin and markup can be computed simultaneously from the same profit figure, and the two percentages come out genuinely different even though they describe the exact same transaction.
Read guideMargin vs Markup: Why the Same Percentage Gives Different Prices
Margin is profit expressed as a percentage of the SELLING price; markup is profit expressed as a percentage of the COST price — the same 30% figure means genuinely different things depending on which one you're using, and using the wrong one when setting a price produces a different, and often unintended, selling price.
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