Next hire break even forecast
Can your clinic afford its next practitioner?
The decision owners lose the most sleep over, turned into a dated cashflow forecast. See the exact month the hire pays for itself, how deep the cash dips before then, and whether your new patient flow can actually fill the book. Nothing is collected. The result is instant.
A hire is a cashflow decision, not a salary decision
A new practitioner costs base wage from day one while their book is still light. The question is never the salary. It is how deep the cash dips before it climbs back, and when it crosses zero.
The pay model changes everything
Salary or a percentage of billings, the cash dip and the break even month move a long way between the two. The forecast pays them the way you actually would, the higher of base wage or commission each week.
Usually it is new patient flow, not the hire
Most hires that go wrong were never going to fill the book. The forecast shows whether your new patient flow can feed a full diary, or whether you would be paying for empty chairs.
Next hire break even forecast
Will your next practitioner pay for themselves, and when?
Set the hire up the way you would actually pay them. The forecast walks month by month, paying the higher of their base wage or their commission, and shows the exact month the cumulative cash turns positive. Every dollar figure here includes super. It runs on the same engine as our Rolling Break Even tool.
Your next physiotherapist breaks even in month 5. Deepest cash dip -$7,993. Held back by new patient flow. All figures include super.
Breaks even in
Includes supermonth 5
Your next physiotherapist breaks even in month 5, costing about $7,993 in cash at the deepest point, then adds about $36,772 a year once their book settles.
Break even
Month 5
Deepest cash dip
-$7,993
around month 2
Cash by month 12
$29,657
Adds each year once settled
$36,772
What is holding them back
New patient flow, not their ability to see people. At 20 new patients a month they plateau at about 28 a week, short of a full 40. You would be paying for about 12 empty slots a week. Filling that book is worth roughly $42,493 a year from this one hire.
At 20 new patients a month, your new physiotherapist only ever half fills their book.
That gap is worth about $42,493 a year from this hire alone. A predictable flow of new patients is exactly what we build.
See if we can fill the bookAn educated estimate, not your accountant. Every input above is an editable default you can match to your real clinic. The pay model is the same rolling wage versus commission maths used across Clinic Mastery, with super and leave included. It does not model owner time, equipment finance or tax.
Built by clinic owners, for clinic owners. The same break even engine sits behind our full Rolling Break Even tool, reverse engineered from the spreadsheet Pete used to run his own clinics.