Profit Split Calculator
The split percentage is the headline; the fees are the fine print. This calculator turns both into the numbers that matter: your share of any payout, and the gross profit you must produce before a funded account has paid for itself.
By Joey van Diest, founder and editorUpdated
Enter total evaluation fees across all attempts. Firm-agnostic; splits, scaling tiers, refund and payout conditions vary, always verify with your firm.
- Your share
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- Firm's share
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- Net after fees
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- Breakeven gross
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The formulas
your share = gross profit × split
net = your share − (evaluation fees + monthly fees × months)
breakeven gross = total fees ÷ split
The breakeven line is the one traders skip. Fees are paid from your pocket at 100 cents on the dollar, but recovered through the split at only your percentage of each dollar earned, so every dollar of fees requires more than a dollar of trading profit to claw back. At an 80% split, $500 of fees needs $625 of gross profit; at 50%, it needs $1,000.
A worked example
A trader passes a $100,000 evaluation on the second attempt at $300 per attempt, $600 total, with a 90% split and no monthly fee. Breakeven gross is 600 ÷ 0.90 ≈ $667, or 0.67% of the account, before the first dollar of real income. Suppose the first payout cycle produces $5,000 of gross profit: the trader's share is $4,500, the firm keeps $500, and net of the $600 in fees the trader banks $3,900, an effective 78% of gross rather than the advertised 90%. The gap between advertised and effective split shrinks as profits grow, which is the honest way to think about fees: a fixed toll that weighs most on small or slow accounts.
Add a recurring cost and the toll compounds. The same account with a $100 monthly data fee held for six months adds $600, doubling total fees and pushing effective split on that first $5,000 down to 66%. Recurring fees convert a one-off purchase into a subscription you must out-trade, so the "months held" input deserves an honest estimate, not a hopeful one.
The number to combine with your pass odds
This page assumes you already hold the funded account. Theprofit target calculatorestimates how many paid attempts a pass will realistically take with your strategy; multiply its expected attempts by the per-attempt fee and feed the result into the fees field here. That end-to-end figure, total expected cost of funding divided by your split, is the gross profit at which the whole venture breaks even, and it is the only number that fairly compares two firms' offers. Once funded, thedrawdown calculatorand theconsistency rule calculatorcover the two rules most likely to stand between you and that first payout.
Frequently asked questions
- Is an 80% or 90% split actually good?
- The split percentage is the most advertised and least informative number in the deal. A 90% split behind a hard consistency rule, a payout minimum and a trailing drawdown can pay you less in practice than an 80% split with clean rules. The split only tells you how a payout divides once you have earned one; everything upstream (pass odds, breach rules, payout conditions) decides whether you earn one. Use this page for the division and the other prop tools for the upstream odds.
- Do refundable evaluation fees change the math?
- If your firm refunds the fee with the first payout, exclude it from the fee total here once you are confident of reaching that payout, or run the calculator both ways. Many refunds are conditional (first payout only, minimum profit, active-account requirements), so the conservative reading treats the fee as sunk until it is actually back in your pocket.
- Why show breakeven as a percent of the account?
- Because "make $750" sounds trivial until you see it is 0.75% on a $100,000 account under a 10% max drawdown and a 5% daily limit, i.e. a meaningful fraction of your total risk budget just to reach zero. The percent framing also transfers across account sizes: fees are fixed while accounts scale, which is precisely why larger accounts recover their costs more easily.
- What about taxes?
- Funded-trader payouts are generally self-employment or contractor income, not capital gains, and nothing is withheld for you. The calculator shows an optional take-home line at a tax rate you enter, but tax treatment varies by country and structure; a local tax professional beats any calculator, this one included.
Method and limitations
Pure arithmetic on the numbers you enter; nothing is fetched and nothing leaves your browser. The model assumes a flat split on gross profit. Real agreements add payout minimums, scaling tiers, refund conditions and consistency requirements that this page does not model; your agreement is the only authoritative source. The tax line is illustrative, not tax advice. Economicium is not affiliated with any proprietary trading firm.
This tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent to us or stored.
For general information and education only. This is not financial advice and not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Trading and investing carry risk, including the risk of losing more than your initial outlay. Always verify figures against your broker or the original source before acting on them.
Spotted an error? Email[email protected]and it will be corrected. Maintained byJoey van Diest.