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What is an empty chair costing you?
Quiet chairs don't send an invoice — but they cost real money every week. See your utilisation, put a dollar figure on the idle time, and see what lifting to target would recover.
Working chairs in active use, not total fit-out chairs.
Rostered hours minus unpaid breaks. AU full-time is 38/week.
Hours actually filled with paying appointments (from your booking software's roster-vs-bookings view).
$
Service revenue only, ex GST.
%
80–85% is the widely-cited sweet spot.
Idle chair time costing you
$159,120/year
Your chairs run at 68.4% utilisation. That's about 36 idle hours a week across the team — $3,060 of unsold time every week. Lift to 85% and you'd recover roughly $83,538 a year.
Utilisation
68.4%
of available hours
Idle hours / week
36
across the team
Lost revenue / week
$3,060
unsold chair time
Recoverable / year
$83,538
lifting to 85%
Utilisation = booked ÷ available hours. RAG: red under 70%, amber 70–79%, green 80%+ (80–85% is the sweet spot). Idle-cost uses your average revenue per booked hour, so it's a service-revenue figure, ex GST.
A working tool, not financial advice. It uses the figures and assumptions you enter — check them against your own numbers and your accountant before any pricing, wage or financial decision. Award and tax figures change (often each 1 July); verify current rates at fairwork.gov.au and ato.gov.au. Shear Profit gives no tax or financial advice.
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