Golf Simulator Break-Even Calculator

How to read your break-even number

Your break-even utilization is the share of your available bay-hours you have to sell each month just to cover your fixed costs. Below it, you lose money; above it, every additional booked hour is profit. Most of the math comes down to your contribution per hour — your hourly rate minus the small variable cost of running a session. Fixed costs divided by that contribution gives the booked hours you need, and dividing by your total available hours turns that into a percentage.

The reason this number matters so much: simulator venues have high fixed costs and low variable costs, so profitability is almost entirely a utilization game. A studio stuck at 30% occupancy struggles while an identical one at 55% prints money — same rent, same equipment. That's why filling weekday and off-peak hours is the single highest-leverage thing an operator can do. See the tactics in how to fill weekday bays, size the top line with the revenue calculator, or plan your launch budget with the startup cost calculator.