Margin Price Calculator

About this calculator

Starting from a product's cost and a target profit margin, this calculator works out the selling price using price = cost / (1 − margin%), then reports the resulting profit in currency. This is deliberately different from markup, which is calculated on cost rather than on the selling price — a 50% margin and a 50% markup produce different prices, a distinction that trips up a lot of first-time sellers.

Retailers, e-commerce sellers, freelancers quoting a project, and manufacturers setting wholesale prices all use this to make sure a chosen margin percentage translates into an actual sale price that covers costs and hits their profit target.