Free calculator for gym owners

Can you afford to hire a new trainer or manager?

A new hire at a gym pays off through member retention or personal training revenue. Both take a few months to show up.

Cash in the bank today$ Cash the business adds each month now$ Monthly cost of the new trainer or manager, with taxes and benefits$ Months until the new trainer or manager brings in revenuemonths Extra revenue per month after that$ Payroll per run today (for the safe line)$

Lowest cash, next 12 months

Cost before they pay off

wages paid before new revenue starts

Paid back by

month the hire covers its own cost

Month	Without the hire	With the hire

The starting numbers are an example for a gym. Replace them with yours.

The worked example

Here a new trainer or manager costs $4,800 a month and starts bringing in $6,500 a month after 2 months. The business pays $9,600 before the hire covers a dollar of it.

How to make the hire safer in a gym

Tie a new trainer's pay partly to personal training sessions they sell.
Hire a manager after the January rush, when cancellations are visible and the member count has settled.
Track retention for the members the new hire works with, so you can see the payback.

See every hire in your forecast

One Page CFO adds the hire to your 13-week forecast and shows the tightest week before you commit.

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