Airbnb Income Estimator
Estimate monthly Airbnb income for a property based on nightly rate, occupancy, cleaning fees, and expenses.
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How to use this calculator
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Select your listing type and enter the number of bedrooms.
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Set your average nightly rate and expected occupancy rate.
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Enter your cleaning fee per stay and the Airbnb host service fee percentage.
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Add your total monthly property expenses to see monthly and annual profit.
Frequently asked questions
What formula does this tool use?
This tool uses nights booked = round(30 × occupancy ÷ 100), stays = round(nights ÷ 3), gross income = nightly rate × nights + stays × cleaning fee, fees = gross × host fee %, net = gross − fees, and monthly profit = net − monthly expenses. Annual profit is monthly profit × 12. With the defaults the month has 20 nights and 7 stays, gross $2,960.00, fees $88.80 and profit $1,071.20.
How does the tool count stays for cleaning fees?
It assumes an average stay of 3 nights, a fixed value in the code, and rounds the number of stays to a whole number. Twenty booked nights become 7 stays. If your guests stay one night or two weeks the cleaning total will be off, so adjust the cleaning fee or occupancy to compensate.
What base does the host fee apply to?
In this tool the fee percentage is applied to the whole gross, nightly income plus cleaning fees. The default is 3%. Platform fee structures differ by listing and can change, so confirm the percentage on your own account and enter it; the tool does not know which one applies to you.
Do the listing type and number of bedrooms change the result?
No. Listing type and bedrooms are on the form but the calculation never reads them. Only nightly rate, occupancy, cleaning fee, host fee and monthly expenses affect the output, so set the nightly rate to reflect the size and type of space.
What happens at 0% occupancy or with zero values?
Zero is used as zero. At 0% occupancy nights, income and fees are all $0.00 and the profit equals minus your monthly expenses; with the defaults that is -$1,800.00 a month and -$21,600 a year. Cleaning fee, host fee and expenses can each be zero too. Clearing a box leaves a 0, so an emptied field is treated as zero too. Occupancy is limited to 0–100%.
Is the annual profit a forecast?
No. It is the monthly profit times 12 for a fixed 30-night month. It has no seasonality, no ramp-up period, no vacant months, and no change in pricing across the year. Twelve 30-night months cover 360 nights, not a full 365-night year.
What costs and rules does the tool not cover?
Only the amount you type into monthly expenses is subtracted, so include the mortgage or rent, utilities, supplies, insurance and anything else. Income tax, set-up costs, licences and local rules for short-term rentals are not modelled and vary by location, so check those separately.
Airbnb income: from nights booked to monthly profit
How a month is built
The estimator treats a month as 30 nights. Occupancy turns that into nights booked, and nights are grouped into stays of an assumed three nights to work out how many cleaning fees are earned. Gross income is nightly rate times nights plus cleaning fees; a percentage fee is taken from that gross; and your own monthly expenses are subtracted to reach profit. The effective nightly rate after fees divides net income by booked nights, which shows how much of the headline rate you keep once cleaning income and fees are included.
Worked examples: defaults and a higher-rate listing
The defaults ($120 a night, 65% occupancy, $80 cleaning fee, 3% fee, $1,800 expenses) give 20 booked nights, gross income of $2,960.00, fees of $88.80, net income of $2,871.20, monthly profit of $1,071.20, annual profit of $12,854 and an effective nightly rate of $143.56. A higher-priced listing at $200 a night, 50% occupancy, a $100 cleaning fee and $2,500 expenses gives 15 nights, gross $3,500.00, fees $105.00, profit $895.00 a month, $10,740 a year and an effective rate of $226.33.
What occupancy does to profit
The table varies only occupancy, keeping the default $120 rate, $80 cleaning fee, 3% fee and $1,800 expenses. Income rises with occupancy but the expenses do not, so the profit line crosses from negative to positive somewhere between the 30% and 50% rows. The 65% row is the default; the others use whole-number occupancy values.
| Occupancy | Nights booked | Gross income | Monthly profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | 0 | $0.00 | -$1,800.00 |
| 30% | 9 | $1,320.00 | -$519.60 |
| 50% | 15 | $2,200.00 | $334.00 |
| 65% | 20 | $2,960.00 | $1,071.20 |
| 70% | 21 | $3,080.00 | $1,187.60 |
| 90% | 27 | $3,960.00 | $2,041.20 |
Zero fees and zero expenses
Setting the cleaning fee, host fee and expenses to zero isolates the nightly income. A $90 listing at 80% occupancy then shows 24 nights, $2,160.00 gross and net, a monthly profit of $2,160.00 and an annual figure of $25,920. The effective nightly rate equals the headline $90.00 because there is nothing else added or taken away. This is useful for checking the arithmetic against your own booking calendar.
Limits to keep in mind
The listing type and bedroom fields are not used in the calculation, the three-night average stay is fixed, and the annual figure simply repeats the month 12 times. The estimate says nothing about demand in your area, local requirements for short-term rentals, or taxes. Replace the defaults with your own observed rate and occupancy, include every recurring cost, and treat the result as a model of those inputs.
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