Wedding Videography
Profit Calculator
Estimate a sustainable package price, annual profit, and take-home value per tracked hour.
Income Goal
What reaches your pocket after expenses and estimated tax.
Estimated effective rate on positive profit.
Minimum package price
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Take-home / tracked hour
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Time Per Wedding (Hours)
Include marketing, bookkeeping, unbooked consultations, equipment care, and other work not tied to one wedding.
Minimum Package Price
Take-home per tracked hour
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To take home at least $75,000, charge this much per wedding across 20 bookings.
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Start Free TrialHow the wedding videography profit calculator works
The calculator combines your annual overhead, direct wedding costs, bookings, tracked working hours, and estimated effective tax rate. Goal Mode works backward from take-home income; Price Mode estimates the result of your current average package.
Goal price: annual costs plus your pre-tax income goal, divided by weddings and rounded up.
Tax: estimated only on positive profit. Tracked hourly value includes wedding hours plus annual overhead.
Example: $75,000 take-home, $10,000 fixed costs, $500 per wedding, and 20 weddings produces a $6,000 package target.
Planning estimate only—not financial, accounting, or tax advice.
Core formulas
- Total annual costs: fixed expenses + (cost per wedding × weddings)
- Pre-tax income goal: take-home goal ÷ (1 − effective tax rate)
- Minimum package price: round up ((pre-tax goal + total annual costs) ÷ weddings)
- Price Mode take-home: revenue − costs − tax on positive profit
- Take-home per tracked hour: take-home ÷ ((hours per wedding × weddings) + annual overhead hours)
- Break-even package: round up (total annual costs ÷ weddings)
Planning assumptions
- Tax is a flat effective estimate applied only to positive business profit.
- Every booking uses the same average package and direct cost.
- You provide all deductible costs and tracked working hours.
- The tool does not forecast demand, sales tax, credits, or deductions.
Example calculation
A wedding videographer targeting $75,000 take-home income at a 25% effective tax rate, with $10,000 in annual fixed expenses, $500 in direct costs per wedding, and 20 weddings needs $120,000 in annual revenue. The minimum average package is $6,000. With 45 hours per wedding plus 100 annual overhead hours, the projected take-home value is $75 per tracked hour.
Created by: The Lemlii Team
Reviewed by: Lemlii Product Team
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Results are planning estimates, not financial, accounting, or tax advice. Consult qualified local professionals before making business or tax decisions.
How to use this calculator
- Select your mode: Choose "Income Goal" to work backward from your dream salary, or "Package Price" to see the profit on your current rates.
- Fill in your expenses: Separate annual fixed costs from the direct costs you incur for each wedding.
- Estimate your hours: Include wedding work plus annual marketing, bookkeeping, unbooked consultations, and equipment care.
- Analyze the results: Review your take-home pay per tracked hour. If it is too low, raise prices, reduce fulfillment costs, or reduce editing time.
Understanding your rate
Pricing is one of the hardest parts of running a creative business. Many videographers start by guessing or copying competitors, which often leads to burnout.
You might charge $4,000 per wedding and feel rich. But if you spend 60 hours editing, plus 10 hours of admin, and have $15k in expenses, your take-home pay per tracked hour might be surprisingly low. This tool visualizes those invisible costs.
Once you know your real margin, use the wedding photo and video business growth calculator to compare the bookings, package price, and inquiry conversion rate needed for your take-home goal.
Frequently Asked Questions
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