Etsy Jewelry Profit Calculator

How to read your result

Jewelry profit is usually decided by labour and metal, not by findings. If profit looks healthy before labour and thin after it, the price is paying for materials but not for bench time; raise the price or simplify the design rather than valuing your time at zero.

Method and formula

Revenue is the discounted item total plus the shipping amount charged to the buyer. Etsy fees are then deducted: a $0.20 listing fee per unit, a 6.5% transaction fee on revenue, and a 3% + $0.25 payment processing fee (US Etsy Payments). If Offsite Ads is enabled, add 15% of revenue, or 12% for shops at or above the $10,000 trailing-365-day threshold, capped at $100 per order. Profit = revenue - total fees - total costs (product + actual shipping cost + packaging + labour + other). Margin = profit / revenue. Rates verified 14 Oct 2026 and re-verified 28 Oct 2026 (Wave 1 fee re-verification; all rates matched). Material cost is built from quantities (grams, bead count, findings), which is what this page adds over a lump-sum materials input: changing a bead count or metal weight re-prices the piece automatically.

Worked examples

Example 1 prices a beaded bracelet at $34 with quantity-based materials. Example 2 repeats the sale through Offsite Ads at the 12% high-volume rate. Both were computed by the independent script.

Assumptions and limits

US Etsy Payments rates only; non-US processing rates differ. Sales tax is excluded from the transaction base for US sellers per the base fee profile. The listing fee is charged per unit sold here (one listing renewal per sale); multi-quantity listings renew per unit. Currency conversion (2.5%), regulatory operating fees for non-US markets, returns, and Etsy's one-time new-shop set-up fee are not modelled. Labour is valued at the rate you enter; unpaid time is not free, it is profit you keep only if you choose to value it at $0. This page does not track metal price movements: if metal costs rise after you price a piece, re-enter the current price per gram before relisting.

Category guidance: materials and process

Cost jewelry from quantities, not from memory. Weigh metal per piece, count beads, and list findings separately; a lump-sum materials guess hides exactly the lines that change when you switch suppliers or scale a design. Keep a per-design cost card so a restock reuses the same numbers instead of a new estimate each time.

Category guidance: pricing pitfalls

Pitfalls: using a spot metal price instead of your landed cost; forgetting clasps and wire because they look small (they recur on every piece); and pricing a labour-heavy design from a competitor's price without knowing their material or labour position.

Related tools

Cross-check with the generic Etsy profit calculator, isolate fees with the fee calculator, and compare against the pricing calculator if you need a target price instead of a profit check. The jewelry pricing calculator in this pilot set solves the price from a target margin.

Fee assumptions

Worked examples

Every example below uses the US Etsy Payments fee profile and is rounded to the cent. You can enter the same numbers into the calculator above to reproduce each result.

Beaded bracelet, single sale

Same bracelet through Offsite Ads at the 12% high-volume rate

Sources

• Etsy Fees & Payments Policy (official) — verified 2026-10-14
• Etsy Help: Offsite Ads rates and $10,000 threshold (official) — verified 2026-10-14
• Sellarithm base fee-config.js (read this session; cites the official pages above) — verified 2026-10-28