Most med spa owners overstate their injectable margins because vendor COGS never hit their P&L correctly. Here is how to fix it.
Free Med Spa Financial Calculators
Ten calculators built for medical spa owners: injectable margins, device ROI, revenue per provider, treatment-room rate, patient LTV, marketing CAC, productivity, treatment-mix profitability, staffing ratios, and full P&L margins. No sign-up. No email required.
Enter your monthly injectable revenue and vendor product costs. See your real gross margin after Allergan, Galderma, and Merz COGS — not the inflated number QuickBooks shows by default.
Benchmark: 60–70% is healthy. Below 55% indicates a pricing, waste, or vendor cost problem. Above 75% usually means vendor invoices are incomplete.
Enter your device lease payment, average treatment price, and weekly treatment volume. See exactly how many treatments per week you need to break even — and whether you are above or below that line.
This calculation covers the lease payment only — not provider labor, allocated overhead, or consumables beyond what you entered in the treatment price. Factor in full costs to assess true service-line profitability.
Total practice revenue divided by full-time providers shows whether each clinician is producing at benchmark. Below $45k per provider is usually a volume or pricing problem. Above $100k means mature providers or a high-ticket service mix.
Benchmark for injectable-led med spas: $50k–$80k per provider per month. High-ticket surgical or membership-heavy practices clear $100k. Use this as a hiring and pricing signal, not a comp formula.
Treatment rooms are your second largest fixed cost after labor. If a room is generating less than $120 per operating hour, the room is dragging margin. This calc shows what each room earns per hour you keep the lights on.
Below $120 per hour per room means underutilized capacity or low pricing. $120–$250 is the healthy range for injectable + laser practices. Above $250 indicates premium service mix or exceptional booking density.
A new patient is not worth one visit. They are worth every visit they make until they leave. LTV tells you the gross profit a patient produces over their full tenure. Use it to size acquisition spend.
A healthy med spa LTV is $4,000+. Below $3,000 means short patient tenure or low frequency. Pair this calc with the CAC calc below — sustainable acquisition cost is roughly 25–30% of LTV.
CAC is the total marketing spend it took to land one new patient. Compared against LTV, it tells you whether your acquisition is sustainable or a treadmill. Below 3:1 LTV-to-CAC is a warning sign.
3:1 LTV-to-CAC is the floor. 4:1 to 6:1 is healthy. Below 3:1 means you are spending too much on acquisition relative to what each patient pays back. Track this monthly to catch channel decay.
Productivity is revenue per billable hour, less direct compensation. It tells you what a provider clears for the practice after their own paycheck. Use it to validate comp structures and spot scheduling drift.
Margin per provider should clear $6,000 per month at minimum to cover allocated overhead. Below that, the provider is not pulling their weight against rent and shared cost. Above $15,000 means raise the comp or risk losing them.
Three service lines, three margins. This calc shows where your gross profit actually comes from, not where revenue comes from. The two are not the same. The highest revenue line is rarely the highest margin line.
Schedule the highest-margin service line first when capacity is constrained. If injectables are 65% of profit but only 40% of revenue, that is where every marketing dollar should go. Devices typically carry the highest margin once paid off.
Total payroll as a percentage of revenue is the single most important ratio in service businesses. Above 40% and you cannot fund anything else. Below 25% you are usually underinvesting in retention or burning out staff.
Healthy med spa range is 28–35% of revenue on payroll. Surgical or membership-heavy practices run lower. Solo-provider practices run higher. Above 40% = restructure schedule or pricing. Below 22% = quality and retention risk.
A full P&L stack from revenue to net profit. Gross margin tells you whether your pricing covers product cost. Net margin tells you whether the business actually keeps money after rent, payroll, marketing, and everything else.
Industry benchmark: gross margin 75–85%, net margin 15–25%. Net under 10% = operational efficiency problem (usually payroll or rent). Net 25–35% = excellent, reinvest or distribute. Track monthly. Expect seasonality.