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Ticket Pricing Calculator

Work backwards from your costs: enter expected attendance, your expenses, and the profit you want, and get a suggested ticket price, break-even point, and projected revenue after fees.

Suggested ticket price
$20.00
hits your profit target at 150 tickets
Break-even price
$13.34
covers expenses exactly, $0 profit
Break-even attendance
100
tickets at the suggested price

Price scenarios at 150 tickets

Ticket priceRevenue to youProfitBreak-even tickets
$16.00$2,400.00$400.00125
$20.00SUGGESTED$3,000.00$1,000.00100
$24.00$3,600.00$1,600.0084
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Common questions

How should I price tickets for an event?

Start from your costs: add up expenses, add the profit you want, divide by realistic attendance, and account for ticketing fees. Then sanity-check against what similar events in your market charge.

What's a break-even ticket price?

The price where ticket revenue exactly covers your expenses, with zero profit. Anything above it is margin; pricing below it means you need other revenue (bar, sponsors) to come out ahead.

Do ticketing fees change what I should charge?

If fees are buyer-paid (TixKarma's default), your payout per ticket equals face value, so fees don't change your math — buyers just see a slightly higher total. If you absorb fees, build them into the price.

What attendance number should I use?

Use a conservative estimate — 60–70% of capacity for a first event. It's safer to be pleasantly surprised than to need a sellout to break even.

Estimates for planning only; your actual costs, attendance, and fee structure will vary. Fee math uses TixKarma's live pricing (flat $2.00 per paid ticket + 3.5% + $0.40 processing, buyer-paid by default). On the buyer-pays setting, fees don't reduce your per-ticket revenue.