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56 lines
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title: Markup vs. Margin
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---
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# Markup vs. Margin
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**Markup** and **margin** describe the profit of a sold good or service in terms of its cost.
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\text{Profit} = \text{Sell Price} - \text{Cost}
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**Markup** describes an item's profit as a fraction of its cost to the merchant.
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\text{Markup} = \frac{\text{Profit}}{\text{Cost}}
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**Margin** describes an item's profit as a fraction of its sell price,
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its cost to the customer.
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\text{Margin} = \frac{\text{Profit}}{\text{Sell Price}}
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## Example
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Suppose a product that
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* costs $80 to produce
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* is sold for $100
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\text{Profit} = 100 - 80 = 20, \quad
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\text{Markup} = \frac{20}{80} = 25\%, \quad
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\text{Margin} = \frac{20}{100} = 20\%
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Contractors (and sellers of products and services in general)
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almost exclusively talk about profit in terms of margin.
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Even if someone says "15% _markup_"
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they may still be talking about margin.
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## Converting Between Markup and Margin
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\text{Margin} = \frac{\text{Markup}}{1 + \text{Markup}}, \quad
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\text{Markup} = \frac{\text{Margin}}{1 - \text{Margin}}
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$$ |