How Waypoint figures out your floor price
The five-step path from cost-of-living to a defensible per-job price, and what each step contributes.
Waypoint at getcompass.studio/waypoint back-solves a floor price for your work from the bottom up. Five steps, plus an optional sixth for setting your dream income.
Step 0 (optional) · North Star
What you want to make per year, month, or week. Editing one field updates the others. This input doesn't drive the math directly, instead, Step 5 compares the dream against what your numbers will actually deliver, so you can see the gap.
Step 1 · Life Admin
Your honest cost of being alive. Rent, food, transport, the good-life budget. Categorised so you can see the totals at a glance and tweak categories independently.
Step 2 · Business Costs
What it takes to keep the lights on. Software subscriptions, insurance, marketing, gear funds, accounting. Industry-aware presets so a copywriter and a wedding photographer don't start from the same template.
Step 3 · Job Costs
What every job actually costs to deliver. Each row has a dollar amount and an applicability slider, a second shooter on 50% of weddings, an album on 40% of bookings. Waypoint multiplies and rolls up to an average cost per job.
Step 4 · True North
Where you want to land. Monthly take-home target, optional household income (offsets life expenses), how many jobs you want to book, average revenue per job, tax bracket.
Step 5 · Your Waypoint
The result. Your floor price per job, broken down into:
- What the business has to pull in (gross revenue target)
- Tax to set aside (computed from your bracket)
- Business costs (annual)
- Total cost-to-deliver across your booking target
- Take-home, split into the Serviette Strategy buckets
If you filled in North Star, this step also shows the gap between your dream and what your numbers strictly require.
Cross-device sync
Signed-in users get their state saved to their account. Open Waypoint on any device and your numbers come back. Guests stay in localStorage only.