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Before you quit: five numbers
What a month costs, the rate you need, the clients it takes, the months to get there and what to have saved.
Work these out before you hand in your notice, and the decision makes itself.
Rent, food, insurance, debts. At $60,000 a year, it’s $5,000 a month.
To keep $60,000 after tax, costs and card fees, selling 15 hours a week.
11.2 sessions a week at $180, each client coming every other week.
Your honest guess at how long until the practice pays a month’s costs. Starting on the side is how you find out.
A month’s costs times the months it takes, plus three more. If it takes six months, that’s nine months of $5,000.
The calculator turns your take-home into sessions a week and clients on your books.
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Five numbers to know
Work these out before you hand in your notice, and the decision makes itself.
$5,000 — What a month costs you
Rent, food, insurance, debts. At $60,000 a year, it’s $5,000 a month.
$134 — The rate you need
To keep $60,000 after tax, costs and card fees, selling 15 hours a week.
23 — Clients that rate needs
11.2 sessions a week at $180, each client coming every other week.
The months it takes to get there
Your honest guess at how long until the practice pays a month’s costs. Starting on the side is how you find out.
$45,000 — What to have saved
A month’s costs times the months it takes, plus three more. If it takes six months, that’s nine months of $5,000.
Put your own numbers in
The calculator turns your take-home into sessions a week and clients on your books.
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