Gallery Commission Calculator

$1,000 is Artist Gross — what's left after the gallery's cut — but Artist Net per Work subtracts Material Cost per Work on top of that, since materials come out of the artist's share, not the gallery's. With the $150 default material cost, that $1,000 gross becomes $850 net, which is the number that then gets divided by hours worked to find the effective hourly rate.

It rearranges the same formula the calculator uses forward: it first finds the net dollar amount needed to hit your target hourly rate (target hourly rate times hours), adds back material cost since that also has to come out of the gallery's payout, then divides by one minus the commission rate as a decimal. That's the retail price at which, after commission and materials, you'd be left with exactly your target take-home per hour.

Effective Hourly Rate is Artist Net per Work divided directly by Hours per Work, with no floor or adjustment — so a piece that took 40 hours to create, priced attractively at retail, can still come out to only a few dollars an hour once a 50% gallery cut and material costs are both subtracted from a price that looked generous before commission.

No — Artist Net per Work, Gallery Commission, and Effective Hourly Rate are all calculated from a single work's retail price, commission, materials, and hours, and stay the same regardless of Number of Works. That input only scales the separate Total Net (All Works) and Total Gallery Take figures, which multiply the per-work numbers by how many pieces you're consigning.