Local Landing Page Break-Even Calculator

Works out how many jobs and leads a single city landing page must produce to pay for itself over a chosen horizon, for local service businesses weighing the cost of new pages.

Your estimate

Total page cost over the horizon...

Gross profit per job...

Jobs needed to break even...

Leads needed per month...

Estimates only. Assumptions are listed below, and you can change every input.

A city page costs something to build and a little to keep online, and it earns money only when it produces a job. The question that matters is simple: how many jobs does one page need to bring in before it has paid for itself? This calculator answers that from your own costs and margins, so you can decide whether a smaller town deserves its own page or should share a regional one.

The tool adds the one-time build cost to monthly upkeep over the horizon you pick, then divides that total by the gross profit of one job (average job value times your gross margin). That gives jobs to break even. Dividing jobs by your lead-to-job close rate gives the leads the page must generate, and spreading those over the horizon gives leads per month. Every figure in the formula is an input you control; no industry averages are assumed.

How to use this tool

Enter what one city page costs to build and what it costs each month to keep online.
Set your average job value, gross margin and the share of leads you close, then pick how long you are prepared to wait for payback.
Read the jobs and leads per month the page must produce. If the monthly leads look unrealistic for that town, consider folding it into a regional page instead.

What the math assumes

Total cost is the one-time build cost plus monthly upkeep multiplied by the horizon; no discounting or inflation is applied.
Gross profit per job is average job value times gross margin. Repeat business, referrals and reviews earned from the first job are not counted.
Jobs to break even is total cost divided by gross profit per job; a fractional job is shown as-is rather than rounded up.
Leads are spread evenly across the horizon, so a page that ranks slowly may need more leads later than the monthly figure suggests.
The defaults are placeholders that illustrate the math, not benchmarks. Enter your own costs, margin and close rate.

Frequently asked questions

What if jobs to break even is less than one?

Then a single job would cover the page cost with money to spare. That is common for trades with high job values, and it usually means even a small town page is worth publishing as long as it has real local content.

Should I use gross margin or net margin?

Gross margin, meaning what is left after the direct cost of doing the job. Overhead such as rent and insurance exists whether or not the page brings work, so it should not be charged against a single page.

How do I estimate the build cost if I write the pages myself?

Value your time at what you would otherwise earn on the job, multiply by the hours a page takes, and add any tools or images you paid for. Being honest here keeps the break-even figure honest too.

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