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Nursery Earnings Calculator

Build a clearer monthly and annual earnings estimate using your expected occupancy, income, staffing plan and operating costs. Every key assumption can be changed to reflect the nursery you are planning or running.

Premium Nursery Earnings Calculator showing a nursery earnings dashboard
Included with this courseOngoing online access
3 lessonsLearn, calculate and interpret
Editable modelUse your nursery’s own figures
Ongoing accessReturn whenever assumptions change
What the calculator helps you do

Turn your assumptions into a useful planning estimate

The tool brings the main income and cost drivers together, so you can see how a change in one area affects the overall result.

Forecast income

Use quick monthly figures or separate private fees, funded hours and additional income.

Test occupancy

See current occupancy, break-even occupancy and the effect of changing occupied places.

Model staffing

Enter your planned team, wages, employer costs, pension, training and payroll contingency.

Review profitability

Compare revenue, costs, operating profit, margin and staff cost share in one summary.

Your three-part course

Follow the lessons in order

Begin with the short guide, complete your forecast, then use the final lesson to understand what the figures are telling you.

01

How to Use the Premium Nursery Earnings Calculator

Learn what information to gather, how each input section works and how to save or export your forecast.

Start here
02

Open the Premium Nursery Earnings Calculator

Enter your occupancy, income, staffing and operating costs to build your own monthly and annual estimate.

Calculator
03

Understanding Your Results and Improving Profitability

Read the headline figures, identify the main cost pressures and test realistic ways to strengthen the forecast.

Interpret
Before you begin

Use the most realistic figures available

You do not need every final quote before starting. Use sensible planning estimates, record where they came from and return to update them as your plans become clearer.

Useful approach: create a cautious version first, then save a base case and a growth case. This is more useful than relying on one optimistic forecast.
Ready to begin?

Use the LearnDash lesson list directly below this overview and open Lesson 1.

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Important: This calculator provides an indicative planning estimate only. It is not accounting, investment, payroll, employment, tax or legal advice. Staffing ratios are a high-level planning guide and do not assess staff qualifications, deployment, breaks, cover, room layouts, individual children’s needs or every EYFS requirement. Confirm your assumptions with your accountant, payroll provider, local authority and the current EYFS statutory framework before making financial or staffing decisions.

Course Content

How to Use the Premium Nursery Earnings Calculator
Open the Premium Nursery Earnings Calculator
Understanding Your Results and Improving Profitability