Gross Profit Percentage

The Percent of Gross Profit calculator compute the percent of profit based on the net sales and the cost of goods or services.

INSTRUCTIONS: Choose units and enter the following:

• (NS) This is the Net Sales
• (CG) This is the Cost of Goods

Percent of Gross Profit (GP%):  The calculator returns the percentage.

The Math / Science

The gross profit percentage is the difference between the net sales and the cost of goods sold (or services rendered) divided by the net sales times a hundred.

EXAMPLE

ZeTech Inc. has sales of $800,000, direct material costs of $200,000, direct labor costs of $75,000, and $25,000 of factory overhead. This results in a gross margin percentage of 62.5%, which is calculated as: ($800000 - ($200,000+$75,000+$25,000) / $800,000) * 100

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