Markup and Margin
Selling price from cost and target.
Example
You enter
- Cost ($) 100
- Mode markup_percent
- Value 50
You get
- Selling price $150
- Margin 33.33 %
- Profit $50
Checked against published worked examples from: OpenStax, Rice University.
Details, formula, and sources
Formula or tableSelling price = cost × (1 + markup_pct). Margin % = (price − cost) / price × 100. Pure arithmetic.
Source and editionEngineering-practice arithmetic.
Free accessNo licensed source required. Markup and margin are definitional arithmetic; the cost and the target percentage are the user's own figures.
What governsEstimate. AHJ and licensed professional govern.
API field namescost, mode, value, selling_price, margin_percent, profit