Plug in your nightly rate, occupancy, fees and running costs to see what a short-term rental actually earns each month after the platform, the cleaner and the bills are paid. The calculator also shows your RevPAR, profit margin and the occupancy you need just to break even, so you can test a price change or a new cost before it hits your bank account.
Use monthly averages. Start with the example numbers, then replace them with your own.
Everything is calculated per month from the numbers you enter. Platform and management fees are applied to booking revenue (nightly rate plus cleaning fees). Taxes collected from guests are left out because they pass through to the authorities.
Break-even occupancy divides your monthly running costs by what each booked night contributes after fees and cleaning. Break-even nightly rate keeps your occupancy fixed and solves for the rate where profit is zero.
Profit here is operating profit before income tax, depreciation and loan principal. If you want a cash-flow view, include your full mortgage payment in the first running-cost field.
Break-even occupancy is your safety margin. If you need 58% occupancy to break even and you usually run 65%, a slow month can wipe out your profit quickly. The wider the gap, the more resilient the property.
Margin shows how efficiently revenue turns into profit. A thin margin with high occupancy often means the rate is too low or turnovers are eating the gains, which is common with lots of one and two-night stays.
RevPAR lets you compare months fairly. It blends rate and occupancy into one number, so you can tell whether a busy month at a lower price actually earned more per available night.
A one-bedroom with 30 available nights, a $185 ADR, 65% occupancy and 3-night average stays books about 19.5 nights and 6.5 stays a month. With a $95 cleaning fee, gross revenue is about $4,225. After a 15.5% platform fee, $85 cleanings and $2,690 of monthly running costs, profit lands near $328 a month (about $3,930 a year), a 7.8% margin. Break-even occupancy is about 58%, and the break-even nightly rate at 65% occupancy is about $165.
It depends heavily on whether you own outright, carry a mortgage or rent the property for arbitrage. Instead of chasing a universal benchmark, compare your margin month to month and watch how far you sit above break-even occupancy.
Include it if you want to know whether the property covers its own costs each month. Leave the principal out if you want an operating profit figure closer to what an accountant would report.
Shorter stays mean more turnovers. Each one adds a cleaning cost, and if your cleaning fee doesn’t fully cover it, the extra bookings earn less than they appear to.
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Estimates are based on the numbers you enter and are not a guarantee of future short-term rental performance. They are not tax or financial advice.